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Old 02-18-2025, 10:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Fastskiguy View Post
We owned a home here for 6 years before getting down here full time and this ^^^ is a thing. Plus managing it from a distance is a pain in the neck. Like when the neighbor (fortunately) calls and says one of your sprinkler heads is broken and you have a fountain in your back yard. You do end up with a home to move into that's closer to businesses vs. being new in the middle of nowhere....but nowhere becomes somewhere in a few years and you get to move in with all of your new neighbors at the same time and it's like going off to college but more fun. So I say....just wait and make the move all at once. YMMV!

Joe

Joe, thanks for that insight. Question, knowing the pains that you mentioned, are you saying you would not have done the same thing again?

You would have waited the 6 years?
What would you have done in the meantime?

Looking back, what would have to wait the 6 years gotten you in terms of improvements, cost of homes, locations or is it simply just less headaches? (Which I am not discounting, as it is a pain in the but having another place, but you knew that going into it.). The Sprinkler head is a problem, hope the neighbor helped and was neighborly!