Since it's rainy season here, it could be weeks or even a month or longer before the ground is sufficiently dry for the contractor to engage in the dirt work needed to move along with the project.
It makes me just want to go out, buy another house and start renting it out instead. Plenty of houses around here where I could put less than 20k down and easily rent it out, this area is short on rental housing.
Am I seriously considering this? Well, the thought has definitely crossed my mind, I'll put it that way. The cost of housing here isn't particularly high. People always seem to want to rent over buying. Or, they don't have the down payment to be able to buy. This is why I think a rent-to-own option in these parts would work very nicely.
Whatever the case, the dream is on hold indefinitely, as there is rain in the forecast well into the future. Take a good week of drying out before any dirt work could be done. I mean, I don't know what else I can do, sit here and wait. Make decisions on other things that can't be acted on until the dirt work is done. Engage in other undertakings. Start up the SBA loan stuff.
I think it's SBA loan "stuff". It looks daunting, the paperwork and the projections and such. And getting bids. Like pulling teeth, getting contractors out there to give bids is extremely difficult - they are all busy and they don't have a lot of extra time on their hands. After reading a large quantity of material from other RV park owners who went through the process, I at least have an idea.
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That was days ago lol. I've written a couple of entries and just left them in limbo. I do that a lot. There isn't much to report. I just got back from a trip to Oklahoma. I have no idea what my next work assignment is, but since it's Friday, I decided on the way home to prepare myself with Keto food to take with me. She will send me something (dispatcher) for either tomorrow, Sunday or Monday. If I could get a weekend off, I would love it.
Not sure I really want to be home all weekend tho. The kids are suspended from video games and watching any videos - they ignored mom and dad and decided to come to me to ask to watch a certain movie. I turned it on, not knowing mom had told them after dinner. It's obviously not good for kids thinking they can just go around asking everyone until they get permission. The older boy is highly likely going to be pouty and I don't like being around pouty kids - at all.
Anyway, there is a huge plant sale - I think it's a yearly thing at a certain location where they put out thousands of various kinds of plants - going on tomorrow morning. I hope I am here because the prices are supposed going to be very good with a huge selection if you get there early. We cleaned out all the plant pots. I also fixed the giant planter that fell apart awhile ago - the screws had sheered in half, combination rust and lots of weight with all the dirt in that planter - plus the fact those tiny little screws weren't near big enough to hold the kind of weight that thing was built for.
There's not much else. My son says he is considering moving to Tennessee. It's fairly inevitable that anyone that grew up in the Phoenix area and lived there long enough will get sick of big city living and want to move out. It wasn't anything like it is now when we first moved there in the early 70's. Much of it was cotton fields and giant tumble weeds. When it rained, the streets would flood and we would literally go tubing down the street. The mountain camping areas weren't over run with people that are getting drunk, throwing trash everywhere and being a nuisance. Grand Canyon wasn't shut down to auto traffic. I drove up there several times with friends and our family made trips up there as well.
The pollution is horrible. Ozone alerts all the time, with warnings to "stay inside" - yeah right, I had an outdoor job and there wasn't any staying inside nonsense. And a lot of other stuff that comes with big cities, especially the left politics - bigger government is always better in their view of things.
I don't know if he's actually going to do it, but it sounds like his mother actually came up with the idea to do it and he is going to follow her out there. He's been living with her ever since the divorce and saving up money to buy another place. I still have a really bad taste in my mouth after buying them a brand new, $1,600 refrigerator as a new-house warming gift and then they split up a month later and she has that refrigerator. Trust me, I wouldn't have given them an expensive gift like that if I had any idea that that was going to happen. Them being his ex-wife and my son.
Pretty much will never do that again. I've given him cash gifts instead towards his savings towards a house. Tennessee is a beautiful state and property is much cheaper there along with the cost of living. It's a good choice, I think, especially for those with more conservative thinking.
I have no plans on going anywhere. Unless this situation with my friends I am living with ever change, I will probably stay here. The only thing I really don't like about this area is no mountains and I really always wanted to retire in the mountains somewhere. Nearest mountains are something like 300 miles away, not like it's a hop, skip and a jump to go on a mountain retreat over the weekend type of thing.
Well that's enough for this one. I would like to go get some plants tomorrow, get them home and then go for a good, long hike with the dogs. It's been raining and we haven't been going, but the rain has stopped until Monday, when there's a 50 plus percent chance of rain - again. Putting off the property dirt work - again. I just have to settle in and wait until the rainy season is over, I guess, that's a couple of months from now.
g'day
