Yes! Yes it was fun!

 Well, Campers, our 4 day adventure to College Station By the Sea was....adventurous!  As I mentioned a while ago Mrs J and my campaign plan (No Beans, we're not running for office, more of a battle plan than an election) is to find a house near to our offspring where they can assist us and we can do the same with issues that may arise.

You know, take the grandkids or the grandparents to the doctors, babysit, grocery shop, cook dinner, tell war stories.

Go to your Granddaughter's Dance Recital

Or get a chuckle out of your Grandson's response to his first Hair Cut!

 

Or maybe just sit and read a book or something. Gets a bit quiet around here occasionally.  So,  we're looking at College Station (CStat for the gocnozcenti)  for our final move city wise.  Might have to be a short stay in a rental property and then into our final home though, which brings us to the "Rest of the Story" (with apologies to Paul Harvey).

MBD has a good friend that owns a realty business and was willing to help us find potential dwellings.  

 

Photo from Zillow

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First house was a non-starter,  5K+ sq feet and $1.4M.  Heck, we're in our 70's, no way we need 5K nor the other number.  Nice house, but lots of nooks and crannies,  No Go in about 15 minutes of looking.

 Next two houses were in the 800K +- range.  One was older, had a beautiful back yard with a pool (not fenced in), The perimeter fence had several gaps and holes in it.  The dogs would be gone in seconds.  Finally, the interior required a lot of renovation.  Decor was mid 70's.  

 

 Zillow

Doable, but the two fence issues and having young grand kids.... another non starter.

So...the first day was disappointing, but we had a pretty good discussion of what we liked and disliked about each and our realtor was pretty responsive.  She had one more listing on her original list but it wasn't available to look at until Saturday.  We needed to be home by Saturday evening, so it was a bit tight.

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Nice house,  Owner was a "collector" though, so it was fairly crowded furniture and fixture wise.  Difficult to picture what it would look like without all the stuff.  

 

Being the cook in the family, I really liked the kitchen.  All the cool stuff and a nice layout.  The yard was magnificent.  Master Bedroom was smallish as was the master bath.  The Shower in there was a nice marble,but not very large.  But....The Clutter!  Very offputting.  Not a "No", but a "most likely not" without some concessions.

Mrs J, always the optimist, went on line and found four more houses that were more (at least in the pictures) what we were looking for (and closer to our price range).  The realtor is setting up appointments for the end of this week, so...another trip to visit the grandkids.

Got that going for us. Among other things! 😗😀

Peace out y'All!