Lazy sunny day here in DHS

Lary went to the pool and swam and soaked in the warm sunshine, I caught up on emails, and vegged.

Then after noon we went over to check out some more parks, trailers, mobile/manufactured home parks. Found another nice one called Almar Acres on Dillon Road, just around the corner from us here. The positive thing about it is that the monthly costs are low, there is no pad rental, and you are an owner of the wee plot of land and your trailer. There is an owners group.

The roads inside the park are paved but they aren't wide, and neither are the lots, however the people are very friendly, and the place is immaculate. You can't stay there more than 9 months in a year, but of course we can't- and wouldn't anyway. Not a problem for us.

Tomorrow we'll go and view another unit, we saw 2 today, neither one did it for us. They told us that their contingency reserve is in great shape, which is very reassuring, too. The rec facilities are just gorgeous, also immaculate and very well maintained, spotless.

Lots of happy folks in the thermally heated pool. And 2 hot tubs. Three main streets, across the road from it is Quail Valley where we know many folks are very happy. Almar Acres has had 9 units bought this year so far. They seem very popular, the lady who does a lot of rentals in there showed us around, she's very pleasant. She owns 2 units herself, she just got a new park model brought in, so she rents the previous one out.

We also checked out a nice mobile home park on a golf course, called Hidden Springs Country Club, the same one that our Nelson friends had looked into last year.

Though the older mobile homes are very nice and roomy, some of them double wides, their monthly pad rent seems to be about $550, which is a terrific amount of money to shell out every month of the year. Interestingly the cost of the homes is less than the small ones we saw at Almar Acres. Hmmmm. Tempting.

The development is behind Sands RV park down here, and is very pretty as it encloses a lake and wraps around a small 9 hole golf course. But common sense has to prevail in our case, tempting though it may seem. We would have both monthly dues at our townhouse at home and down here to pay, a killer for us.

The bummer to pass up is that most of the units look out onto the golf course, and some of them look at the lake, it's much more spread out, and takes up about a geographical block of land, with some lovely views of the Palm Springs and Coachella Valley area.

It's interesting, this area is very popular for snowbird people from all over the States and western Canada, and of course that keeps the prices quite high considering the economic climate in the US at the moment. But there are always people moving out, on, and leaving the complexes. They leave either 'vertically' or 'horizontally', life moves along.

Most of the units in Almar Acres are older and very small, though if you wish you can replace an older unit with a newer one. Likely we would start out in an older unit, then maybe upgrade at a later date. The views are more glimpses than views actually, but there always seems to be a place to sit outside at least. And we wouldn't have to keep packing up and moving on as we do in these RV parks now, unless we leased a lot for the season somewhere, or rented a small park model home for the season, to try out a park.

Had dinner at the upper clubhouse, hamburgers. Yum. And now watching the Emmys on TV.
High octane energy.