I know what you mean about that area, while on our LSV we went to Walmart twice and ate at Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Golden Corral and Steak & Shake. It seems to have everything up that way and it's just as easy to shoot down to 27 by using 466. I definitely want to see that rancher when I'm back in town.

In fact, back in the 70's when I lived in Florida, even though I didn't have a kid in school I used to go to Clearwater high school football games every Friday night. So that might be something I'd be interested in doing again. Also, I think I want to get back into playing softball and that location isn't too far from the softball fields I believe.

natickdan, I guess price is part of the solution. We put $65K into our home in 2008 doing a kitchen remodel; granite, stainless steel, white cabinets, bamboo floors, plantation shutters and a screen porch. Very Key West looking. The buyer told me she had looked at 9 homes before ours and liked some of them, but none had a remodeled kitchen and she had just remodeled her home in New York and didn't want to settle for anything less.

By price I mean, I didn't get anywhere near the return of our $65K on our sale. What I got was a faster sale over others and probably about $35K more than if I hadn't done any upgrades. Do I wish I hadn't made those improvements and kept my money in my pocket, probably not because my home would still be for sale.

John, Congrats on your upcoming move to TV. JMHO, but I would really like to live close to shopping and restaurants -- easy access to shopping and restaurants will be something I will be looking for in a TV home. I live two blocks from one of the high schools in my town (2,500 students), and I don't find it to be a problem. Besides when I drive past the high school in the morning on my way to work I get to see how many of the students are driving nicer cars than what I drive.

John that's wonderful news on the sale of your home. It gives us hope that we can do the same. Also John that was quite an impressive round of golf after a 40 year layoff. You must be a natural. Maybe we can join up for a round and talk Raven's football in TV.

Our condo association twice a year brings in a huge dumpster so the homeowners can get rid of stuff. Yesterday our dumpster arrived and I worked from 3:30pm (after golf) until 8:30pm filling up my car and hefting junk into the huge dumpster. We filled half of it by the time we were finished. Boy my wife and I slept well last night.

We have scheduled a meeting to get prices with a painter and carpet man who our Realtor recommends. We need to replace the upstairs carpet, the other two floors are hardwood, and paint the entire interior of the house.

It feels great to be off and running towards our ultimate goal of TV!

Maxman, the golf is like I posted before, it was like riding a bike for me. When I started back in 2009 I was shooting 95, only once did I go over a 100. The second summer, 2010 I was breaking 90 regularly. However, shooting low 80 I've only done that well twice here, an 80 at Geneva Farms on New Year's Eve Day and a 78 at Furnace Bay in Perryville last summer. That's why I was kind of surprised how well it went that day at Cane Garden, but I never got into much trouble and kept the 3 putts to just a couple.

Last weekend we found a fellow that brought over a 7 X 10 trailer and we filled with junk and he took it to the dump all for $75. My house was painted new inside in 2008 when I remodeled, so I just took a can of paint around and touched up where it was needed. I have hardwoods on the main level but berber carpeting on the 2nd floor and basement but it didn't look that bad after 13 years, we bought the house new in 1998.

I played golf with a fellow I just met one day last summer at Wetlands and through talking I found out he was selling and moving to TV. Anyway, he moved last August and I have stayed in touch with him via email. I looked him up when we were there last month, he bought a new designer in Buttonwood. He just bought his mother a patio villa also in Buttonwood. I'm hoping to get into that area because it's fairly close to LSL and I liked the area, and he said I could be on their softball team.

I asked him about watching the Ravens and he said he had NFL Sunday ticket. I guess I'll have to go that route, I've got Directv now and plan on staying with it.

I just got in from our community yard sale, unfortunately the rain cut it short but I did get rid of everything I took out. Didn't do too bad, took in a couple of hundred but at the end gave a lot of stuff away just to avoid bringing it back into the house.

We'll have to stay in touch and play some golf when we both become Villagers.