Weekend Fun

Well, it is official, we are preparing to move to Kyle.  We had been looking for a place to move to since about February and none of the locations met our criteria until we came across this little place in Kyle.  The home owner was selling 2 plots, one with a 3x2 house and the other with a mobile home on it for $300.  We did not like the price, but we did like the land.  The plots combined mad about 6 acres.  We made him several offers, but he was set on the $300K for both places, the tax assessor thinks the 2 plots combines with structures is only work $200K.  Since we were not in a hurry, we ask his relator to notify us when he decided to drop the price.  It took nearly 4 months for him to accept our offer for the one house with the 3 bed 2 bath and 4 acres for $190K.  We would still like both plots, but figured the mobile home is not going anywhere and we should be able to pic it up in a few years.  The house needs a lot of work and we will probably end up putting in almost $50K in fixing it up.  We want to replace the floors and windows, turn the garage into a master bedroom and bath.  Combine the two bathrooms that are there into one big one and add another bath just for fun.  We are also redoing the kitchen and adding a sun room across the back of the house.

We are planning on closing in July.  We are trying to get our current house ready for the market.  We were debating on renting the place until the market turns around, but after talking to a few people, we think it may be better to sell it using owner financing.  Since there are so many people in the area now that lost their shirt in CA due to the housing crash, there are a lot of people that have a lot of money and cannot get loans from the bank.  A friend of mine just sold a house doing owner financing and got $30K down and charging the new owner 2% more than the bank is for his mortgage.  The nice thing is that the guy owns the place and so you don’t have to deal with the renter headache. 

I had to take my shed down that I just rebuild earlier this summer thanks to the HOA.  I have had a shed there for over 8 years and 4 months after I rebuild it, the HOA decides that it is time to start hassling me about it.  I think they are still mad because they told me I could not have chickens and I quoted our HOA hand book that said we could.  We are sick of Home Owners Associations and people telling us how to raise our kids and what to do which is why we are moving.  I will not miss the communist mentality.  We are slowly packing the house and moving things out to the garage.  I am selling my golf cart so we have more room in the garage and I am trying to get the yard looking good.  We will have to have all the carpets cleaned and do some scrubbing on the tile grout lines.  I wish we could just move everything out and have a cleaning service some in and scourer the place.

Levi has cub camp this weekend and I am in charge of the water bottle rocket station.  I built a few more launchers for the scouts.  I was going to do the same design as before, but the materials to make 2 was over $100 and I wanted to keep this as inexpensive as possible.  I did some research online and found a design the I think would be great for the kids and it is also cheap and more compact.

New Cheaper Design	Old Design that Costs too much

Here is a great site on the different water rockets launcher designs.  Air Command – Water Rockets