Moving to Phoenix - bought a home -update

[john]

Been away for what seems to be forever. While we were away on the west coast we sold our home in Mass and bought a new one in a development in Phoenix to be completed in January.


The floorplan: http://www.courtlandhomes.com/ppicture.cfm?IDnum=00604007
The stuff inside: http://www.courtlandhomes.com/nhg2dtbyids.cfm?IDnum=00604007&IDLot=367
The home is located in So. Phoenix about 20 minutes from college and 10 from downtown Phoenix. Baseline and 31st ave.  If you want to see what this new community sees for its future this is an interesting read: ftp://www.ci.phoenix.az.us/pub/PLANNING/vpbrolv.pdf

Yep. We are chucking it all and starting over from scratch.  GStwin will continue uninterupted.

[pantablo]

congrats John! the first 2 links are no good, btw... ***fixed***

Exterior A looks nice...I'm sure you'll love it.

Was hoping to hook up with you when you were in L.A. but I guess you were busy with the house stuff in Phx.

[Gisser]

THAT is a lot of house for the money.  And, I really dig that floorplan.

http://www.courtlandhomes.com/ppicture.cfm?IDnum=00604007

How we gonna keep the Canadians on their side of the border when living in the USA is this good  :dunno: .

[cozy]

Wow that's pretty nice for inside the fifth/sixth largest city.Pretty forward thinking to develop a community that way. May have to investigate PHNx when i graduate.  

[vtlion]

Good for you John!  Best of luck with your new start.  there is nothing quite as exciting as relocating (I should know.. I do it every two years or so   )

[werase643]

stupid question time

why will it take 7 months to build....
where will you live til then?   since you sold the farm....
do you already have a job out there?

good luck in your new adventure


moving sucks....i think i'm up to 20 times now.... and I hope i never have to do it again

[pdg108]

Looks awsome to me.  I tend to move every few years too.  Remember, if you don't unpack it after being there for a year, don't take it with you when you leave.    

If your interested in guys making left turns, you will have this a few blocks away.  Cool...

http://www.manzanitaspeedway.com/

Hope all goes smooth.  Good luck with everything.

[john]

stupid question time

why will it take 7 months to build....

Because the city has to cut in all the roads & stuff.  The roads are laid out, the block walls are up, and the utilities (at least electric and phone/cable are laid but the finished road is not there.  They won't build till the city completes the road -then the houses will spring up.  That's why the long wait.

where will you live til then?   since you sold the farm....

Refridgerator box.  Actually we will have to *gasp* rent an apartment in Mesa.

do you already have a job out there?

We don't need no stinking job out there.  I'm going to school.  Anne will find work without much trouble.

[werase643]

more SCHOOL.....that stuff will rot your brian....brain

what for now?

I applaude your style.
Wif just got a new BETTER job....now I can work LESS!!!! :mrgreen:

[The Buddha]

145K... 1770 sqft 1 level, its almost as cheap as NC... and year round AC...  :lol: BTW... Its not often that I get to welcome the site owner... But John and Anne ..... "Welcome to SUBURBIA"  :lol:
My favorite place in the whole world.
Cool.
Srinath.

[pantablo]

why will it take 7 months to build....

Construction always takes long...and they'll likely go over their estimate from some setback or another. Hell, I just finished an interior remodel that took that long and we had no exterior work.

John-be careful not to sign off the completion of the work (probably something to do with your post completion inspection) until they are really done. Once you sign it off and take possession they are not nearly as motivated to finish all the little details that sometimes gets forgotten.

[Stephen072774]

145K... 1770 sqft 1 level, its almost as cheap as NC...

God bless rural Alabama.

Congrats on the new house

[john]

But John and Anne ..... "Welcome to SUBURBIA"  :lol:
My favorite place in the whole world.
Cool.
Srinath.

Yep.  It's gonna be a culture shock.  I am used to acre parcels, not 5000sq ft.  Gotta get used to the grid.

[The Buddha]

Oh jeeze you are from the sticks... I thought you were "city people" OK that's a smaller shock. The bigger houses with over acre parcels are getting very very hard to get...
Cool.
Srinath.

[manofthefield]

Looks awesome.  Question about the floor plan:  Can you opt to have no living room, with a 4 car garage instead?  You can never have too much garage space  :lol:

[john]

Looks awesome.  Question about the floor plan:  Can you opt to have no living room, with a 4 car garage instead?  You can never have too much garage space  :lol:

No but we have been discussing putting double doors on bedroom #2 off the garage and using it for bike parking  :lol:

[yamahonkawazuki]

question, on your yard, will you have to   rake it, or mow it? :lol: , btw, beware of scorpions, and ants, (especially), and the occasional roof rat, and the "killer bees", but other than that, cool place to call home

[TheGoodGuy]

Congrats john..

I may finally get to meet you one of these days.

My sister and her husband are buying a house in Albany NY area, it will only be ready next year in july, aka July 2005.

2500sq, 4 bedrooms, 3.5bath, 2.5 garage, etc etc.. about 350K for it..

[snapper]

Bedroom #3... I call it!  

Thats a cool house!!!  Congrats!!!  
So when do you packup?  Have to do dinner before then!!!  HAVE TO!    :mrgreen:


Scorpions?  Killer Bees?  Roof Rats?  Oh My!  

[cajrovd]

Nice house... congrats!!    

I'm sure you've already experienced the furnace effect in Phoenix, if so, give yourself a year and your blood will totally thin out, though it may seem like you'll die at first and wonder why you ever wanted to live in Phoenix in the first place. But 85 degrees becomes downright cold after a summer.