Sunday, February 16, 2014

Blacksmiths February 2014



February 3rd, After a quiet weekend, Val is slowly recovering from her Chesty Cough and showing signs of improving.

February 4th, After lunch we took a drive down to Summerland Point, as we wanted to make a start on looking at the Manufactured Home Villages on the Central Coast. We are planning to settle down sometime this year and need to “sus-out” what we could expect to get, for the amount of money that we will have. We were about half way to our destination when it started raining, so Val was destined not to be out of the car today. We couldn’t find any sign of a MH Village at Summerland point so I ducked in to the PO and was told the nearest was Chain Valley. We then went down to Chain Valley and drove around the suburb, decided that this area didn’t appeal to us, so drove back out again. We pulled in to “Parktrees Village” on the Pacific Highway at Lake Munmorah. They had 1 pre-loved and 1 new home for sale. Both out of price range but we decided that it wasn’t the Village for us, as the roads were narrow and access to the carport would be poor.

February 6th, We went out again today to look at a couple of MH Villages at Budgewoi, that I had looked at on the internet. We put the address we had for “Sunnylake Shores” into our Navigator and it couldn’t find it, so my information wasn’t right. We then went to “Bevington Shores” and they had 4 Pre-loved homes available. We were taken on a tour around the Village and shown the 4 homes. We found minor faults with all of them but one did look OK and we said that we could fix it up. This Village was on the foreshore of Lake Munmorah, handy for fishing. We tried again to find Sunnylake Shores, by using different suburbs in the address, but gave up in the end and went home.

February 7th, Val has still got that chesty cough hanging on, so it looks like another quiet week-end coming up. We have decided to move on next Tuesday, no matter what, and go to Anna Bay for a week and have our annual health check-up, with our Doctor at Salamander Bay.

February 10th, After another search of the Internet I came up with another Relocatable Home down at Green Point, near Erina. It was through a Real Estate and the write-up sounded good and it was in our price range. We drove down to Green Point and met the Salesman out front of the Village. We noticed a BI-LO Shopping Centre just around the corner from the Village, so that was the first good point and only a couple of Klms from Erina Shopping  Complex. The Rep. drove us around to the home for sale and first thing was that it didn’t have a Carport but had a parking space just opposite. We walked through the house and back out, without barely stopping. It was a complete dump, probably 1930 style, the “L-Shaped” verandah was around a metre wide and we had nothing good to say about it. We told the sales Rep. that anyone buying this would have to knock it down and have a new place built. Definitely not interested at any price and they wanted $80k. We then went to the other side of Erina to look at another home at Terrigal Waters Village but it had been taken off the market. We decided to call it a day and it was early afternoon, so we went home through The Entrance and called in to see Carole and Rob, Gwen and Neal, who were all holidaying at Dunleith Tourist Park. We were surprised to learn that Rob had just got back from Westmead Hospital, in Sydney, after having a bowel repair operation. We had afternoon tea with Carole and Rob and caught up with Gwen and Neal’s news, then drove home to Blacksmiths after wishing Rob a speedy recovery. We did a bit of packing up ready to leave in the morning for Bays Holiday Park at Anna Bay.

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