Thursday, July 11, 2013
Gay July-10-13
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Sharp's Travels
There
comes a time in your life when it is time to make a change and that time has
come for Cheri and me. We didn’t do any traveling this summer as we were needed
here in Florida to take care of Grandma. She is going to need us to help her so
we have made the decision to close our chapter on traveling. We have done it
for eight years and wouldn’t trade the experience we have had for anything
else. We had planned on doing it for ten years, but that was just a plan we had
in our minds. We have done a lot of praying on what we need to do and we feel
that God has answered our prayers. The truck and 5th wheel still
have some value and think it is time to sell it and buy a home here in
Zephyrhills so we can be near Grandma and help her. One day Cheri and I were on
our way back from Wesley Chapel and I had remembered going by a 55 plus park
with a sign that said open home. We pulled in and the sales center was closed
so we picked up a paper that had the homes listed for sale and drove around the
park looking at them. When we returned to the sales office we met Kathy (sales
manager) and we told her we would like to look at three bedroom homes. We
looked at one and didn’t like what we saw. Cheri was telling Kathy that it had
to be a three bedroom so she could have a room for her quilting. Kathy said
that she had a two bedroom with a nice den. So we looked at it and thought it
was very nice. It was late in the afternoon and went back home and prayed about
what we should do. That evening we went out to eat with Mike and Pam and then
back to their place to play cards and were telling them about the home we looked
at. After a long discussion the four of us prayed about it and if it was Gods
will for us to have this home to have him open the doors for us and if we
shouldn’t close the doors. The next day we drove over as I wanted to talk to
the owner. Well he wasn’t home and so we drove down to the sales office and
nobody was there, so started to drive up by the house again when we saw Don
(manager) and asked him if we could see the house again. He said that he would
get the key and meet us at the house. We called Mike and Pam and they came over
to see the house and get their input. While we were looking at it the owner
came back so I got to talk to him about things. After checking over the house
again and finding out that it is fully furnished including dishes. We went down
to the sales office and made an offer and it was accepted. We signed papers and
Kathy sent an e-Mail to the bank. Of course this was on Saturday and would hear
anything until Monday. Well when we got home we got a call from the bank and
talked to them for a bit and told them what we wanted and told us right away
that we were accepted for a loan. Now we have to wait for the appraisal which
can take 4 to 6 weeks. Well the following Tuesday Kathy called us and said the
appraisal was done and should hear something by Friday or Monday. Well we did
hear from the bank on Wednesday and everything was a go to close on July 10. So
as you can see it was God’s plan for us to bless us with this house. After we
closed we went and got Grandma and took her over to see the house. We wanted
her to see and know about it before anyone else in the park knew about it. Then
we took Mike & Mary and Norm & Marlene over to see it. So as you can
see we have been busy the last few weeks getting thing ready for the new house
and didn’t want to put anything in the blog until it was a done deal. You can
see pictures of the outside of the house by clicking on this link: https://plus.google.com/photos/109645901863112014958/albums?banner=pwa&gpsrc=pwrd1#photos/109645901863112014958/albums/5897598002991135697
Later I will post pictures of the inside.
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