Moving to a 55+ Community...

[jefboyardee]

Too old to live, too young to die...

I freaked out as I tuned sixty early this year, never envisioned making it this far. Drove all over, looking for a better place to move. Gave up. Put earnest money down someplace else. Gave up and tossed the money. Looked around my own town for a few months, especially the 55+ haunts.

After seeing a whole lot of them, I found one house that separated itself from the rest. Cheap, as in under a hundred. Peaceful, its deck looks out over a creek bed. Efficient, actually way too small at 560 sqft – more like buying a one bedroom apartment.

But as I wait for buyer's remorse to take hold, I still feel pretty good about this one – might be a good place to ride the last lap. Or two or three or...

 

[Unforgiven]

Looks like a good view. Plant some tomato plants in the buckets right there and enjoy yourself.

 

[jefboyardee]

Looks like a good view.

Yeah, that's what made this lot unique. The others butt up right against the neighbors on three sides. This one has that too, but not in the directions I or the windows look.

 

[bcrichster]

55+? Lemme guess.. "The Villages", Fla? Aka: Gods waiting list, Lol! [emoji12]
The only place I've found that 85% of residents pull their pants high over the breasts like "Urkel" Lmfao.. Don't fall into the trap.

 

[jefboyardee]

Never thought of that, I'm still wearing them up to my knees.

 

[bcrichster]

Lmfao. Too funny.. But seriously, BAD idea that place. $750,000 and you only get a "lot" consisting of 80'×80' and never own it or pass it in a will. Your back yard is part of a golf course and windows get knocked out from bad swings (your problem to replace).. I've wired hundreds of homes out there and would never advise living there. Spans 3 counties and almost half the place gets leveled in a hurricane.. My wires stay put but walls don't hold up much. No such thing as wooden studs for real stability. If you can own a place without much repair, then you're golden. Keep it. Now your buyers remorse has a reason to chill. :-D

 

[jefboyardee]

I'm actually a bit young for the 55+ crowd and I'm told I look even younger. But way inside, I'm almost eighty.

 

[jefboyardee]

If you can own a place without much repair, then you're golden.

I'll own the tiny house and the big lot over the river and pay about sixty a month in HOA... cheapest I've seen hereabouts.

 

[jefboyardee]

$750,000 and you only get a "lot" consisting of 80'×80' and never own it or pass it in a will.

Divide that by ten.

 

[bcrichster]

Ridiculous, right?! I ran an in-wall/ceiling Bose sound system for THE "Culligan Man".. 3,800' ² & $3million into it.. Buyers (leasing?) Remorse! Poor guy, seemed cool

 

[dan330]

560sqft? wow.. small..

hope it works out for u...

 

[jefboyardee]

It'll work if jettison the unnecessary stuff, might even have to rent a storage unit. But although it is a problem, I've certainly lived in smaller places... decades ago.

 

[dan330]

renting a storage .. monthly fee..
kind of destroys the benefit.

might want to look at adding a storage shed to your property

 

[jefboyardee]

You're painfully correct about renting storage. And the annoying part is that most of it is ancient family heirloom crap. But I am the end of the loom– no one to pass it down to. I guess I should just stop postponing the inevitable and sell it before I move.

As for a shed, there already is one – a little one, of course – but it might hold everything I don't jettison.

 

[dan330]

make the shed bigger...
it would be funny if .. the shed for storage.. turns out to be bigger than the house!!!!

you don't have any family? niece, nephew, cousins?

 

[psionandy]

For a moment, I thought you were planning on sealing yourself into that Mars bubble... lol

 

[dan330]

I myself..
hope to retire on a sailboat. catamaran type.

if you are ok with 560 sqft... then this might be an option.
on some large lake. or bay area.

 

[jefboyardee]

make the shed bigger...

No room there, believe it or not. Actually, I was pondering an extra one at the far end of the deck which runs the length of the house.

you don't have any family? niece, nephew, cousins?

I'm in the process of offering to drag all this crap to my sister, two thousand miles away, but she's about to say hell no. I do have some cousins somewhere, they would be next.

 

[KOLIO]

No room there, believe it or not. Actually, I was pondering an extra one at the far end of the deck which runs the length of the house.

I'm in the process of offering to drag all this crap to my sister, two thousand miles away, but she's about to say hell no. I do have some cousins somewhere, they would be next.

Well,if you can't build out.................

 

[dan330]

there is up too

 

[bjacks12]

I wouldn't mind spending my retirement travelling the US & Canada in an RV.

 

[jefboyardee]

I wouldn't mind spending my retirement travelling the US & Canada in an RV.

I think that's my unconsidered, eventual plan, gotta have a little base station first.

 

[Gmash]

According to an episode of Bob's Burgers, you need to be careful about the 55+ swingers parties.

 

[bcrichster]

According to an episode of Bob's Burgers, you need to be careful about the 55+ swingers parties. [emoji14]

For Real! "The Villages", FL has an extremely high rate of HIV due to stuff along those lines.. Seriously, be careful.

 

[dan330]

I guess as you get older... they don't care how they go..