We had a great time in our new hometown and had great success in dealing with our builder, architect, new banker, new insurance agent, etc. A few interesting points of comparison to our home here and prospective home in Texas:
Insurance - cost will be about the same but with the new place valued at 2.5 times our place here. Except we no longer will have to purchase Flood Insurance or deal with significant windstorm deductible.
Taxes - Property tax as above will be nearly the same but sales tax will be 8.25% vs 7 % (still no income tax to deal with).
Driving distance - 7.2 miles from our house to the HEB grocery store. We now drive approximately 10 miles for groceries.
Home Owners Association - NO MORE!
We will be having a custom home build on our 3.12 acre lot just south of town sometime next spring or summer. We visited our lot with architect Mickey Thompson and settled on location and some grading details. We have also changed the design of our home significantly over the past few weeks since I posted a photo of a look alike home. Once I have drawings and details of the new design I'll post them here. Included in the new design is an outdoor kitchen and I've already picked out the charcoal powered grill/smoker that we are going to install.
We intentionally did not cook anything to east while we were in Kerrville as we wanted to try out all of the different places to eat. The first thing that amazed us was that a town of this size (approximately 22,000) could have such a variety of good restaurants. We had breakfast at 2 different donut shops and settled on the place that had the best egg/cheese/meat/croissants. We had chicken fried steak twice at our favorite chicken fried steak place and that was the only time, other than breakfast, that we repeated in the restaurants. We have 3 places that we did not try - next time will include Yeo Bo's (Korean).
We enjoyed being in town for the grand opening of the expanded River Trail. Having now walked the entire length and enjoyed the dog park with Lewis.
More to follow.
You had me at the charcoal grill/smoker....
ReplyDeleteSo is the party bus parking area going to be near the smoker?
Yes, but we will have to do like you did when you got home - juggle the vehicles!
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