[JMintzer]

Friends of ours talked about moving to TV for years before finally pulling the trigger in 2019. I laughed it off for years, thinking we'd end up in SE FL, where my mother in law had a condo (Boca Raton). After she passed, we started looking (as I didn't want a condo), but nothing that wound our watch...

We visited our friends for a week, 10 days over Thanksgiving 2 years ago. I was immediately smitten. I was ready to dive in. I loved the plethora of golf courses, all of the activities and clubs. Everyone we met, while shopping, eating out or just walking the squares was friendly and helpful.

The Boss insisted we wait and rent for a season to be sure, so we rented last Winter for 2 1/2 months. Came down just before Christmas and by the first week of January, had made an offer on a re-sale that was accepted. We were lucky. A few weeks after our offer was accepted, the market went nuts! I'm working on retiring and hopefully, we'll be "Frogs' in 2-3 years max... Sooner if the stars align correctly...

We settled in the middle of February, a few weeks before our rental expired. We moved a bunch of stuff in this past April and have been coming back and forth ever since... A week in June, 2 weeks at the end of July/August, and again in early December. Each time we come down, we bring more "stuff" that we weren't sure we wanted to keep, and we schedule contractors to tweak things to our taste. We had the inside painted just before the movers arrived, we're having light fixtures changed next week and gutters installed next month... Still to do? Landscape changes... But that can wait for now...

We'll be down again this weekend, I'll only be able to stay for a week, but the Boss will stay till the beginning of March. I'll come down in late February for a week or two and we'll drive home together...

We have a daughter's wedding coming up in May, so we're not sure when we'll be back... Probably June or July...