Home sweet home

Until recently, a vacuum cleaner purchase was about the most adult purchase I have ever done. But now I’m considering the ultimate adult purchase. No Madonna, it’s not a baby. It’s a home.

I’ve only been in Florida for about 9 months but I love it here and renting is a waste of money, for a little more every month, I could own my own home.

The home prices here skyrocketed, just as they did everywhere else but they are now starting to go back down to more realistic levels. They are still a bit high, but they are more reasonable.

There are a ton of condos for sale out here. So many that they are now having a hard time moving them and I have even heard of a couple condo communities that were planned and not built at the last minute because of this problem.

So I’m thinking about looking for 2+ bedroom homes, hopefully between the area where I live now and Disney World. Why those restrictions? Because I do not want to have to drive through Downtown Orlando to get to work everyday. Not that the I-4 is a child’s game during rush hour, but at least it’s not full of toll roads like the 408 which does go through the downtown area. Besides, I go to Disney World at least once a week, so why try to move even further away from it? Say I moved right next to Disney, that would increase my daily commute by about 15 minutes, not bad. More, of course, if there was traffic. I work about 5 minutes north of Universal Studios.

I’ve been looking at homes on the Internet and I found a few that would fit my budget, some even have a pool. How cool would that be?

So maybe it’s time to grow up (just a little) and call a realtor one of these days and see what’s up.

Scary and exciting at the same time.

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