So Mick?????????????

Just warning you Mick; it's often a wily female ploy to make you think everything is good when in fact they a5re laying in wait for you once you are in striking distance with that cast iron skillet.

When the heck are you getting in?

 

Will be arriving this coming week. Yahoo!

 

Your timing is perfect, as our weather appears to be breaking just for your arrival.

Nice!

 

Guess I'll miss the freaks too. I'm heading to SC for a week next week.

 

Maybe we should have a freak get-together.

 

One freak just arrived a couple of days go!!:glee:

 

I think a get-together would be fun. Just let me know when and where.

 

Speaking of get togethers....I'll start a new post

 

Good manners E; guess it's a guy thing to be rude. Welcome back 4n6, let me know when you want to chat about your house info.

BTW Mick, let us know when you get here eh?

 

Good morning, Sun City. I can account for a population increase of at last two.

 

There might not be a better feeling than the first day you awake in Sun City after that long haul to finally get here. I know it seems like it takes forever, but when you look back, it will all be worth it. Perhaps the best aspect for me the first year was to see the sun almost every day we woke up. I hated the gray days back home, but they are virtually non-existent in the valley of the sun.

Congrats bro...too friggin cool.

 

<----- jealous

Congratulations...here's to you and your wife enjoying every minute of it!

 

Thanks all. I can already name one thing missing that I don't miss - flying insect pests. The challenge is setting up a new household in a new location but we'll muddle our way through. Loving it.

 

Harried a tad mick? Don't forget to slow down and smell the coffee brother. There's always tomorrow eh?

 

How about an update mick on your first week. It doesn't have to be Rusco'esq, but share the experiences of waking up in the desert versus the great plains of Wyoming.

 

Sorry for the delayed response. I've been spending little time online. I won't pretend to speak for any Wyomingites (Wyomingi?), but as a Montanan from the high plains, I'll give a brief run down of our early experiences.

Furnishing a house from scratch can turn into a full time occupation. Especially when you have specific tastes and the west side doesn't provide a lot of options to meet them. Of course, just trying to find your way around an unfamiliar, huge city is challenge enough. Thank you, google navigation. Our travel has helped us gain more familiarity with Sun City. I'm anxious to learn more of the "back ways" to get around although the only real challenges seem to be Grand and Bell. I just need to get more in tune with my city driving skills again. You know, hand poised over the horn to blast any geezer that doesn't take off fast enough from the light. :victorious: Just kidding. Actually, I'm getting a kick out of being the traffic impediment who has the audacity to drive the speed limit. :devilish:

Unfortunately, we've had a snafu regarding RCSC membership. I'll try to make this brief. As a couple, we have individual, instead of joint trusts. We were originally going to put the condo in my wife's trust but we ran into a problem due to her age (54). Thus, we put it into my trust. When we went to get our cards, we found out that being a successor trustee was not enough in the eyes of the RCSC to qualify one as an owner. Therefore, we would have had to pay for the second membership this and every year going forward. We have opted to change the deed to reflect joint ownership by our trusts. This route being far cheaper than the alternative. I did get clarification from the RCSC that we would not take another $3500 hit by changing the deed. While I may be an idiot for not realizing the successor trustee did not qualify, a little advice from our realtor, the local title company or the RCSC (the initial inquiry) would have saved some time, hassle and expense. Not to mention, something of a sour taste. Anyway, this should be squared away soon. In the meantime, if our experience saves even one person who may be reading this, a similar experience, I'll consider my idiocy worth it. Referring back to another thread, this becomes a non issue if each household is issued two memberships. Petition anyone? So much for brevity.

It seems our condos have a Montana connection beyond us. Our neighbors on each side hail from the state, including our HOA president. We should have the opportunity to meet more neighbors as we're having a condo "happy hour" this coming weekend. There are only seventeen units in our association. So far, so good. Nice and quiet. No complaints from or about us (that we know of). The weather has been great. I've even enjoyed getting rained on a couple times while walking the dog.

I think I'll bring this to an end. I should have more insights upon attaining "full citizenship" rights.

 

I bet if you were from Montana, none of this would have happened. Kidding. That story sucks on the cards and it's one of my pet peeves and one of the reasons I felt my time on the board was wasted. The whole card bugaboo takes a Philadelphia layer to figure out. I understand why we try and insure properties in trusts that get passed on to the kids pay the PIFD, but the games played regarding cards for owners (irrespective of who is on the deed) is pure crap. Nothing more than a money grab in my humble opinion. (bolded for a reason).

Interesting on the furniture Mick; we had specific tastes when we moved here and finding things that fit in a Santa Fe adobe was more of a hunt than a "let's go buy furniture" deal. We drove far and wide looking for the right pieces. Beyond the furniture stores, we hit a whole house auctions and focused on the style of home we had so we knew we would at least see pieces that were compatible.

Here's the good news: The longer you live here, the less you will care about how it looks and the more you will focus on how comfortable it is. See, there are some good things about getting old.

Just as a footnote, we had at one point talked about getting Realtors RCSC certified so they would know exactly how the whole card thing worked. There just wasn't much interest from Realtors as they like to believe they know it all already.

Thanks for filling us in. Did you know the general manager, Jan Ek, is from Montana...or is it Wyoming?