Hopeful

As mentioned in my last post, we have to sell Bruce's house before we can move forward with OUR new house.

He has a very cosy 2 bedroom house at Bayway Village at Fern Bay (relocatable home park).

For those that don't know - Fern Bay is a Newcastle suburb - next to Stockton. Stockton has the most amazing beach (I'll add some photos to this message later). The Newcastle Airport is only 5-10 minutes along the road in one direction and Newcastle is 10 minutes in the other direction.

"Bayway" has a small country town friendly feeling about it. Everyone says "Hi" as they pass you and you never really feel alone (it's a gated community so it's very secure for someone living alone).

There's a kids playground and a pool just a few minutes walk from his house. There's also a bowling green, tennis courts and a "community hall" that I believe you can book for parties etc.

Anyway, it's served him very well for the time that he's been there... but it's time to move on to something that will fit the both of us.

We have a "for sale" sign in the kitchen window that has generated a few lookers.

In fact we had some ladies come through today looking at the place. Bruce seems hopeful that something might come of it.

These houses sell without all the legal requirements and charges that a normal house has so we plan to sell it ourselves (no real estate agent commission!!!).

Our strategy is to take lots of photos and create a flyer. Then we'll do a letterbox drop around the park and the nearby area. We might even do a webpage and email the link to everyone we know.

So - if you know anyone in the Newcastle area that is looking for a bit of a sea change or is wanting to downsize as they get older (but not move into a retirement home yet) then leave us a message!!!

It's exciting to think that we might be moving one step closer to OUR PLACE.

Bruce's daughters, Kimberly (15) and Maddie (almost 11), are beyond excited at the prospect of having a room of their own in the new house. We plan to have a girlie day out shopping for things to decorate their rooms the way they want them.

I'll put a link here to the "for sale" webpage when we do it.

In the meantime... we'll keep our fingers crossed that we sell it quickly.

We want to be in the new house by Christmas 2010.

HO HO HO (hopeful)