A busy two weeks

Today we were back on the road after a couple of very busy weeks in the Casa Grande area. We visited Casa Grande because there were a few “active adult communities” that we wanted to look at. Part of our personal full-timing mission was to find a community that we would enjoy living in; we have been reading about communities and felt that an active adult community in Arizona was worth considering as we have enjoyed our visits here.

Our long range plan was to travel for about three years and then get serious about our search for a new home. We had looked at a community in San Antonio and liked what we saw but wanted to look at other communities in Arizona and Nevada. We checked two communities near Tucson but they didn’t appeal to us so we continued on to Casa Grande.

We visited three communities and liked each of them but narrowed the list to two possibilities. We had agreed that the deciding factor in choosing the community we wanted to live in would be the quality of the house, after looking at both communities the construction methods of one of them were clearly better but we doubted that the price would be within our budget. The community we wanted to visit in Nevada used the same construction methods as the one we had just eliminated so we scrapped that trip.

Well we asked for a price and of course the price was high so we passed. The sales person called back a couple of days later and asked us to pay another visit; after a few more rounds of negotiations we had an agreeable offer; we talked about our original full-time plan and felt that purchasing a home to use as a comfortable winter base and doing extended traveling during the rest of the year really appealed to us so we purchased our new home in Robson Ranch near Eloy.

Our house was designed as a spec home but the construction had not progressed beyond the concrete slab so we were able to meet with the designers to change a few things and add some options that we wanted. After the design process was complete we ordered window treatments and some furniture which made for a busy week of shopping. Construction is scheduled to be completed in July so we will drive down here from Wisconsin for closing and to move in. We intend to take our east coast tour in fall but instead of spending the winter in Florida we will travel back to our new winter home in Arizona.

 

When we purchased the house the tensioning cable and rebar were in place.

 

After the slab was poured Sandy and KoKo checked out the rear patio, the block is in the background.

 

By last Saturday block walls were going up.

 

The view of the rear patio and the partially completed walls.