Sunday, March 11, 2012

More Showings Scheduled

The showing for Thursday went very well. The lady fell in love with the house according to Don. She currently lives in Tampa and works from home. She's getting tired of the big city and wants to move to a small town since she can work from anywhere. She has looked at houses in Pasco and Hernando County, both are north of Tampa, but hasn't found anything she was interested in. She doesn't know anything about Auburndale, so Don gave her the Chamber of Commerce tour of downtown  and the surrounding area before he took her to see the house. She likes the small town atmosphere and as I said she loved the house when she saw it. We're hoping she makes an offer.
In the mean time, Don called me on Friday morning to let me know that our house was garnering a lot of interest. He had several others that wanted to see the house on Saturday. He had a showing scheduled for 11:00 AM, 1:00 PM, and one at 3:00 PM. He wanted to know if that would be OK with us. We had planned on getting some things together for an upcoming yard sale and doing some clean up. We told him we would postpone that and would find something else to do during that time. He called back Friday afternoon and wanted to book another showing at 2:00 PM so we decided we should find something to occupy our entire day on Saturday.
We decided to check out a couple of RV parks in the area that we had visited last year to check on availability. The first one we looked at was Sanlan Ranch Campground in South Lakeland. It's about 10 miles southeast of Auburndale. We like the location because it will shorten Ellen's drive to work since she works in Mulberry. She goes by there on her way to work everyday. It's a nice campground but it's pretty expensive compared to most other RV parks. The other park we looked at was Carefree RV Resort in North Lakeland. It's more reasonable but the drive to work for Ellen would be about the same as it is from our current home. She drives about 25 miles to work one way. They both have spots available but Carefree is about $300 a month less than Sanlan.  There is a $25 application fee per person at Carefree for a background check. We were impressed with that. I think it's a great idea. At least it makes you feel more secure.Which one do you think we're leaning toward?
With that done we still had some time to kill so we decided to stop by Hooter's and have some daytona wings and beer. We got home about 4:00 PM. We had a nice day out and got a couple of things done that we have been putting off.
Don called and told us the showings went well and he was expecting a couple of offers Monday. That sounds encouraging. We had purchased tickets to Theatre Winter Haven's production of "The Buddy Holly Story" several weeks ago so we topped the day off with a relaxing and enjoyable show.
Until next time...

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