Finally,after much back and forth dealings with realtors,banks,a foreclosure as well as a short sale,it looks like we have our condo in Palm Springs Ca! Not huge...about 920 sq.ft....but 2 bedrooms and a den and swimming pool. Big enough for two for the three months or so a year that we will use it. New flooring,clean,freshly painted,nice established development close to downtown and THE SPA CASINO!!! And in a safe(in theory) neighborhood.
Close enough to Vegas and to Los Angeles and only about a 20 hour drive back home so I can get out of that wet and grey BC winter weather. And under $100,000! Same thing up here in Victoria would be $395,000 to 495,000!!!
PLUS I get to come back down next month(September or maybe October) and hit the estate sales for a few weekends so that I can furnish the place,make some money, and maybe venture over to Vegas for a couple of days.The cool thing is that I won't have to rush home since I will be able to spend the time in my own place instead of spending money on hotels.
Just have the paperwork to do now.
As long as California does not sink into the ocean or get destroyed by an earthquake,all should be grand.
Looking forward to having that California zip code and collecting those California chips.
And my new neighbor is Sunday"The Karaoke Kid" Silverman! Life is good.