November 21, 2013

Travel day from White Springs to Spring Hill, FL

We really liked our stay here at Stephen Foster St. Park

 and would have liked to stay longer but the site was reserved so we had to move on.

It rained off and on as we drove down Interstate 75.

Our destination was Spring Hill where we still own a home.  We would have liked to sell our house when we decided to full-time but it could have taken months (or years, or never) to sell so rather than sit around waiting we made the decision to rent the house out.

We hired a property manager who handles any issues that arise.  There are several trees on the property that require pruning, one in particular that has branches hanging over the roof, needs immediate attention.

We had the property manager get us an estimate from a tree trimming service.  It came in at over $1,200.  Being that we were going to be in the area, we told the manager to put off the service so we could see how much of it we could do ourselves.

The tenant kindly offered for us to stay in the side drive-way that we had installed when we bought our rig.

When we arrived in Spring Hill we stopped in at the Church where Monte used to work part time and were invited to stay in the parking lot.  

So now we had a choice of two boondocking sites.

We chose to stay at the church located a mile away from our house.

After setting up we took a ride to the house to assess the work.  The majority of the cost for the estimated work that needed done was for low hanging branches on trees that hindered cutting the grass and therefore were not our responsibility.  Trimming the branches of those trees is part of the tenant’s responsibility.

After seeing what was required to trim the branches on the tree over the roof, Monte determined he could handle it with a pole saw.  So that is the plan for tomorrow.