Actually it is in Indio right next to Joshua Tree National Park. The community is a gated RV resort with park models and RV lots, and you buy your land with the house so no lot rent. The house is a one bedroom, one bath, with vaulted ceilings and skylights, a california room facing the back yard, and is about 20 years newer than mine. It needs absolutely no work other than my own personal touches. It is on a greenbelt with a gazebo out back. The HOA is $320 per month which includes sewer, water, trash, electricity, cable, and yard/park maintenance. We agreed on $75K with a contingency on selling mine. I am listing mine for $125K. The homes here are selling fast and for close to or at asking price. Mine will go on the market on April 1st. I will be saving over $1000 per month from what I am paying now.
There is an 18 hole executive (short par 3 holes) golf course and a 9 hole putting course, tennis courts, pickle ball courts, shuffleboard courts, 6 swimming pools, 2 club houses. over 60 activities and clubs, all free to participate in. About 2 thirds of the lots have park models and one third are for RV's who buy their space. Most residents are snowbirds but some stay all year. I am hoping to eventually be able to travel for at least 3 months each summer. Will be able to afford a nice little trailer and of course, a golf cart, which everyone there has. There are lakes, creeks, waterfalls and tons of flowers and grass all over! It is meticulously taken care of.
Oh yeah, the home comes fully furnished, which actually I am not really interested in since most of it is older and not my style so will sell or donate it and put my stuff in there. Except for the bed. She has a super nice soft queen sized bed so I will keep that and sell mine. I already have a job lined up at the Great Clips near there whenever I am ready to move there.
So, lots of work ahead of me but I am very excited!
Others were very nice inside and newer but had no yard. Some were just ugly inside and out. This is the only one that had a California room instead of just an open covered porch. It also has a carport, dishwasher and a washer and dryer inside the house (many were out in the shed which I can't imagine doing laundry in a shed that is 150 degrees inside in the summer!), which many did not have those things either. This one had everything on my wish list and was turn key with a nice patio and back yard, and was in my price range. I looked at this one a few weeks ago and then again this week and couldn't stop thinking about it in between. Like they say, "you will know it when you see it".