Do I have a story to tell! My parents have been trying to sell or have talked about selling their home for years. Last year it was on the market for 6 months and only 3 people came to look at it. This year it was on for less than a week before they found a buyer. It was meant to be, and here's why...they applied for a service mission in Hawaii and were told they were definitely needed....by July!
I was going to have to find a different place to live and figured why not make it a big move. Hyrum and Anne's family have been in VA for almost a year, Jason and Becki's family moved to GA a few months ago and Rachel and Doug's family were moving to FL and I felt like Florida was the place I should be.
I had a month to find a place to live, get packed up and out of Utah. I flew to FL at the beginning of May to meet up with Rach and Doug and Liam to go house hunting. We did research on apartments and manufactured homes and discovered that buying a manufactured home would make more sense financially and allow for more living space/yard space then renting would soooo the Shaw's and I are now the family's "trailer trash"! The community is well maintained, there are no renters allowed, it's all owner occupied, and they do background checks on people and if they don't pass they aren't allowed to buy in Rexmere Village. I'm skeptical so I did a little checking of my own and looked on the sex offender registry and was pleased to see no preverts live in the community. As we looked at homes in Rexmere we each happened to like homes that just happened to be right behind each other....how awesome is that...to be backyard neighbors!
I think this is the biggest snap decision I've made in my life! I generally study things out, research, and take opinion polls before I make choices. I'm not gonna lie it was really hard to leave my friends and extended family, but they made it a little easier by putting together several gatherings to say goodbye. I'm truly blessed to have so many wonderful loving people in my life.
To be continued!