Our New Home 7-22

As most of you know we have been on the hunt for a new home base for almost a year and have hunted in five different states and we settled on the Auburn area of California. Yes, shocking to those of you who know Larry's opinion of our home state, but there are more things to love about it than hate and so here we are.

A little over five months ago we put our offer in on a beautiful two acres with a home that needs some lovin'. Until this week we weren't ever sure if it would ever close....one of the many short sales that are anything BUT short. Tomorrow it will be officially ours and we will be pulling the trailer to our new home to pick up the keys.

You will have to drag out your maps, we are about 6 miles south of Auburn/I-80 off of highway 49 south. Down the hill, across the American River, and back up the other hill to Cool. We are looking forward to living with some space between neighbors, and will have to deal with the four legged neighbors too, deer, bear, raccoons and various cat types. Many of our neighbors have horses which I will enjoy seeing, but the wildlife will be a challenge when I start to grow flowers! We are below the snow line so no snow shovels for us!

We looked at a lot of properties from Auburn to Georgetown to Placerville, El Dorado to Shingle Springs. The property either had no trailer parking, was on a busy road, on a road in the back of beyond or the homes needed so very much work they were far beyond our budget…the other thing was that most were in communities that had Homeowners Associations or a new one on us…Mello Roos.

This one has a paved road, is close to town, not far from Auburn, the property is pretty and there are no HOA’s, plus we liked the layout of the house. It had the least amount of work needed, but the hurdle we needed to get over was that it is a manufactured home…a different animal for us…we figured if we could live in a trailer for over six years this new place will be a hybrid of our previous homes.

So a long day tomorrow, all this time we didn’t know until just a few days ago if it would even be ours, so we were constantly working on backup plans. We’ll drive down from here, Quincy, stop in Cool and pick up our new keys and then head for the house and get the trailer jockeyed into where we want it. Then the hard work begins. In about a month the inside should be looking pretty good, the outside will take a bit longer.