I'm back in California. Hard to believe it will be two weeks tomorrow since I arrived! So much has gone on. After arriving, we immediately starting packing and starting looking for a new place to live. The rental house we're in was foreclosed on and sold at auction on January 26th. Great. We supposedly signed a new lease with the landlady. We paid rent; she didn't pay mortgage.
So off we went to look for a new home. Apartment? Town house? Another single family residence? Who knew? We sure didn't! We looked at everything we could find on the internet, Craig's List (bunch of non-existant homes there!), and the newspaper. So what did we find? Zip, zero, nada, nothing! Everything we found on the internet had been rented weeks ago. So then we started looking at apartments. Coming from a house to an apartment is really hard. But even harder when you've been married for 32 years and you're a pack rat! Although most of our belongings have been taken to our house in Tennessee, we still have a LOT of stuff here!
So we did what we didn't want to do. We called a realtor that a guy Mike works with had used and was really happy with. She took us out on Tuesday and the last place we looked at was the winner! It's a stand-alone townhouse (no common walls) to any other town homes. It's a two story, two bedroom, two bath, two car garage. OK, the two car garage was the selling point for Mike. The small courtyard was the selling point for me. I have a place to go outside without having to leave home!
So this is it... our new HOME SWEET HOME. Last move until we go back to Tennessee....
Or until this one goes to foreclosure...
