Category: The very start of our adventure

So it begins.. cont.

October 21, 2023

The very start of our adventure

Ok so our offer accepted, I think it really started to set in over the following days that we had just bought a plot of dirt with footings in another country and a builder we didn’t know. My work experience, and my flexibility made it easy for me to get down here often and check in on the build. The house is located just south of Phoenix a short 4hr drive to the fishing village of Puerto Peñasco, referred to by many as “Rocky Point”. So this is what it was meant to look like based on computer render.

This was along the way.. a bit of an ugly duckling so to speak..

ours is on the right..

Here it is nearing completion in February of 2022, so at this point we were still envisioning this spur of the moment home of just being out every few weeks vacation spot to escape to and bring the dogs and cat and enjoy the quiet beach time. Things were about to take a major shift, at some time between this point and May 2022, discussions of retirement and what that looked like. What timelines it could involve if we make some drastic changes in lifestyle, homes, where we lived, etc. April 2022 we decided based on may external and internal circumstances to sell our home in Phoenix.

The market was up, home prices were close to the peak of market prices at the time. We had been following all the news mainstream and rumors about water shortages that will start effecting AZ, NM, CO, UT, and CA. The writing is on the wall, the majority of residents just have not taken the time to read it yet. The next next 10 years will be very painful for these states, less so for CA and CO they have taken major strides toward water conservation and reclamation. That mixed with the social and political climates in the U.S., just made it a somewhat “easy?” decision. What this meant though is that the home had to be decluttered, paint a few rooms to remove our color for one that appealed to more buyers, and get everything packed for an international move… in 3 weeks or less. The housing market would be slowing as kids would start back to school, and so it was now or take our chances after summer or in the spring. I think I started packing that night. (HAHA) No, really I am pretty sure I started packing the night we made the decision. I knew it was going to be a colossal task to get this completed, I had only a couple jobs both winding down, so I could devote the time. We spent 3 weeks getting trades in, painting, cleaning, packing, organizing, giving away, throwing away, preparing to move. The three weeks flew by but when picture day arrived the home was ready much to many peoples surprise and nobody died. (HAHA)

The home was on the market for less than 24hrs and we received 5 asking price offers. Wow, well now it’s real… so now between mid May and mid June we have to be fully packed out of the house and moved to Mexico. This also included my mom’s apartment that had to be cleaned out packed up her stuff ready to move, and whatever she wanted to give away given away to family. The home was still being completed some last minute items like landscaping, touchups curtains, solar panels, etc. This our home on June 22, 2022, ready for move in.

Sorry this posts are long.. I promise they will be shorter after I catch up to where we are, and I will skip some bring parts, I promise! This however brings us to the year of “The learning curve!!!”

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So it begins..

October 21, 2023

The very start of our adventure

Hmmm, where to start…

I guess the beginning of this adventure, when the pandemic was finally showing some signs of lessoning, we like many people wanted to get out and do something. We didn’t want to hop on a plane, we didn’t want to be around a ton of people, so we thought…”Let’s go to Mexico!” We had often heard over the years of living in Phoenix of this little fishing village called “Rocky Point”, several neighbors went often, telling us of their fun. So in July of 2021 we booked a room, at a beach front resort and spent 3 days just enjoying getting away for quick trip. So we enjoyed the beach, and the wonderful weather, we also explored town and surrounding areas, just toying with the idea of maybe getting a vacation type place to come and enjoy every few weeks. We didn’t want hauled water, we wanted to make sure water supply had a long term solution, high speed internet was important because if wanted to get away but still needed to work some, we needed that and we knew didn’t want to be in the heart of the tourist area. I knew I wanted to be on or walking distance to the sea.

Armed with this “short” list… (eye rolls) I started searching, you learn very quickly how (fortunate/lucky/spoiled- not sure of the correct word for here) we are in the states in larger metropolitan areas to have so much choice, maybe to much sometimes to our detriment. The list really narrowed things down to only a couple areas of town, and I had only been looking at homes, ready to move in. However, upon finding this one neighborhood we noticed they had just broken ground on a home and it was for sale. (NOW, keep in mind we were only exploring the idea, of possibly, maybe, potentially buying a place eventually) We both fell in love with the area, the amenities, and the views, it was paradise. Thoughts racing we drove back to our room, and just sat on the patio enjoying the breeze and discussing what we had just seen, this was a Sunday so nothing really open or people to talk to about the property we saw. The next morning was Monday and we had to get home, we needed to leave by no later than 10am to get back to work. We called up a realtor, met her at her office and I think we had already pretty much decided before that moment, but we submitted an offer on the dirt lot with some footings.

The drive home was, interesting, to say the least. We had just spent three days in Mexico, visiting a small fishing village we had never stepped foot in before. We just left a realtors office where we submitted a sizable offer on a home that was not even a home yet! Now we were driving home to continue life. We do not do things like this (well one of us doesn’t I have been known to make spur of the moment life changing decisions.. but WE do not.) (HAHA) So, the next day our offer was accepted pretty much with just a few details to work out, but the “home” dirt and some footings.. was ours!

To Be Continued….

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