Exciting day today!

[Mr.Bill]

Our new manufactured home has been delivered to the site.

Some of you may remember months ago I said we were moving. After many delays, it's finally going to happen. My grandson has a home on five acres in California's northern Gold Country and he wanted us to be closer to him and the great grandchildren. So he has purchased a manufactured home and we will move there and rent it from him.

Hopefully, this will be our forever home. As delayed as it was, (it was supposed to be there in March) it all worked out because our current mobile home took longer than expected to sell. But it is now sold and we will be moving on Sunday. There is still much work to be done to set the new place up, water, electric, septic, etc. We will stay at our daughter's place nearby until it's ready to move into.

We have been packing all week and I'm sitting in a mobile home full of boxes. It's going to be a busy week, so If I'm not here as much as usual, you now know why.

[blm]

1. 💐

🫶🏽

[elleng]

2. Very exciting!

I rent a house 7 miles from one of my daughters, and while her busy life with 2 young kids (and a new puppy) doesn't enable us to see each other too often, our times together are great!

[marble falls]

3. Congratulations on the new home and the new adventure behind it!!

[2naSalit]

4. Congrats!

May you have a safe and pleasant journey and a great time once you get there!

[Boomerproud]

5. Very happy for you.

Good news is particularly welcome these days.

[wendyb-NC]

6. Sounds like a wonderful new adventure

Best wishes to you and your family. May you have many happy times in your new home place. Blessings.

[barbtries]

7. I'm so happy for you.

my oldest son and i have talked about him getting a granny shack up at his cabin. i want to go home to CA, but can't really afford to, plus I have 2 sons here in NC, one who will likely soon be starting a family. But how I would love for us all to be living in the same area.

[Fla Dem]

8. Congratulations on this momentous event. Hope you have many years of happiness in your new home.

[Mr.Bill]

9. Thanks for all your good wishes.

[SWBTATTReg]

10. How exciting. Moving is sometimes, hard on some. We just had a couple of good friends move back

to Calif. (Palm Springs), they had came back to Missouri to take care of family. Now they're going back. It's going to be hard and we'll miss them, but like I told them, 'Hey, you're moving back home, and at least we got to know each other!'.

Home is where the heart is at.

[Diamond_Dog]

11. Sounds absolutely perfect!

Good luck on your move!

[Mr.Bill]

13. Only down side is it's a pretty small place.

Only 500 sq ft. We are planning on a good size storage shed, but we still have some decisions to make about getting rid of some things. Some of the non-profit thrift stores in the area are going to benefit from our move. We just have to face the fact that a smaller place is better for us as we grow old. It so much less to take care of. And being brand new, everything should work well for about 10 years. Not to mention much more energy efficiency. After a few years of Covid isolation in an 800 sq ft mobile home, all I can say is it's a good thing my wife and I not only love each other, we also really like each other.

[mnhtnbb]

16. If you are able to build a nice size deck

outside adjacent to the home, it will seem like a much larger space with the addition of an outdoor room.

Congratulations and I hope your move goes well.

[Mr.Bill]

17. Yes, a nice deck with

a screened-in area is planned. We pay the cost of living in California, we might as well enjoy the weather. The area we are moving to will catch a little snow most winters, but the summers are on avearge five degrees cooler in the summer than where we live now, which will be a welcome change.

[Elessar Zappa]

12. Congrats!

You must be relieved. I’m thinking about selling my house and moving out of state into a manufactured home. My neighborhood is becoming crime-ridden, we’ve recently had two instances of theft of some of our outdoor items and two of our neighbors had actual home burglaries.

[Mr.Bill]

15. Manufactured homes are so much nicer than they were years ago.

We are happy with the home itself, but there are a lot of hidden costs, and a lot of flaky people in the business of transporting them and setting them up. Research the people you hire and plan on unexpected delays.

[BadGimp]

14. Congrats and the best of luck to you all!

[mgardener]

18. I am so happy for you!

Let us know how the move goes!

[littlemissmartypants]

19. Excellent news!! It's a lot of work but I'd be excited, too.

So happy for you and your family! ❤️

[fierywoman]

20. I wish for you the easiest stress-free move ever!

[Mr.Bill]

23. Thanks. We've moved a lot,

but we haven't moved this distance (175 miles) in over 30 years.

[Hope22]

21. This is so exciting!

Congratulations on the sale and the move falling into place. It is so hard to get all of the pieces to fit together. Enjoy your new place and your people there! 💗😊

[Mr.Bill]

22. Our last move was just the opposite.

We had an offer fours after it was listed. We hadn't even started looking for another place. I spent a few weeks moving all our stuff to a storage locker and we were going to have to move in with our daughter until we found a place. We weren't even thinking of a mobile home, buy we found a fixer-upper in a nice park and did tons of work to it. All new kitchen, paint, fixing bad electrical work, etc. It paid off because after enjoying it for seven years, we got all our money back and then some when we sold it. We will pay off some debt and become renters with our grandson as the landlord, and have more disposable cash now. And the grandson gets free baby sitting.

[IbogaProject]

28. Sounds really cool if it is on the same parcel

If so you can walk sometimes. best wishes.

[Mr.Bill]

31. The two houses will only be a couple hundred feet apart.

The land is sloped, the side of a hill. A lot of dirt had to be moved to clear a level pad for the new house. The paved driveway connects them. We are looking for a golf cart to get around the property. There's a huge potential vegetable garden behind the big house.

My grandson is quite the party animal and has lots of friends. Some of them I watched grow up with him. He throws good parties and BBQs. I'm looking forward to being able to go to the parties, then walk a few steps downhill and be home.

[Hope22]

30. It all sounds wonderful! 😁 n/t

[MLAA]

24. Wonderful! Happy forever home!

[iluvtennis]

25. Nice! n/t

[StarryNite]

26. Congratulations!

How cool is that?! Very happy for you and your family. Lots of neat family stuff ahead for you.

[c-rational]

27. Congrats Mr. Bill. Sounds like a wonderful day. Enjoy the move.

[PittBlue]

29. Congratulations!

We downsized and moved a couple miles away from our oldest son. Best thing that we ever did! All the best to you!

[debm55]

32. Congratulations, on your new forever home. I wish both you and your wife a safe trip and wonderful

experience. Take it easy, lifting the boxes. So happy for you.

[Mr.Bill]

33. Thank you.

Trust me, I've got some young family muscle and a neighbor coming over to help do the lifting.

[slightlv]

34. Congratulations on the move!

While I don't envy you the packing and the moving, I do remember how exciting it can all be. Wishing you all the best!

[liberalla]

35. That's fantastic! I remember when you wrote that...

Happy Homecoming to you!

[keithbvadu2]

36. Happy Trails!

[OMGWTF]

37. Very exciting! Congrats from one Trailer American to another (per Trae Crowder)!

We moved into a manufactured home two years ago and it's been great. It was only five years old when we bought it and it's built as well as any stick house. Very well designed too.