I am very excited to share with you Part 1 of My Cheap Maui Condo. This project was quite the undertaking for first time VR owners (us), but I must say we are more than thrilled with the results. Throughout the next few ‘parts’ I will diary for you the whole experience…from conception to inception to conclusion.
So, here it goes…
Wintery Night Dreams: I was browsing Craigslist on a cold wintery evening in Seattle, Washington. I really hated living in Seattle and I have always wanted to live in Maui since the first time I visited several years back. It was a dream but one I knew would turn into a reality at some point in my life. Anyway, I am sitting on the sofa, on my soapbox telling Ron all about my wsih. He asked if it was expensive and how would it work with all the animals (we have 6!), as if he was super interested and it MIGHT be a possibility. I did a quick search on CL and the very FIRST property I looked at was the keeper. The bones were good, the style was not. It was a workable space that need a wee bit of sprucing and a creative touch to pull it together.
So anyway where was I? Oh yeah, here I am sitting in the dark making a quick call to the Realtor in Kihei at half past eight, like two days before Christmas and by morning I had an offer drawn up in my hot little paws. Ron paced through the house chatting to me in gibberish as if we just won the lottery. Seriously, we were like two kids in a candy shop who could pick out anything they wanted.
We didn’t ever look back and we had NO clue what were doing or what we had just gotten ourselves into. No clue. And we weren’t scared, not one bit. In fact, we didn’t even begin thinking about how we would pay for it every month or that it would be a vacation rental and if it was a VR, how all the logistics would roll out until we finished signing the closing documents.
Hold onto your hats for ‘part’ two as we embark on this whirl wind adventure!
Aloha,
[courtney]
