Good evening!
Sheila, the house is actually in Indio but since most people have never heard of that or know where it is, I just say Palm Springs since they are pretty close to each other, and most people know where Palm Springs is.
I went over for the inspection this morning. They have had major issues with transformers blowing at the park so there was no power on in the house when I got there. The inspector got there and did some work outside but couldn't do anything inside. Luckily, they were able to get power on from a generator in the park so he was able to finish the inspection. He didn't find anything major, just little things here and there that are easy fixes and not too costly. He said the roof is in great shape and the furnace/central air unit, altho older, works well. So I was happy to hear all that, especially after the reports on my house!
The back yard is a total mess tho, actually the whole green space back there. It has something to do with the transformers and the electrical wiring underground that has to be redone so there is a large trench all the way thru parts of the park including my back yard. It will be done soon tho and covered up and resodded. Will look nice again eventually. I won't be spending much time outside this summer anyways. It sure was hot in the house for awhile until they got power on and turned on the air. Cooled off quickly tho. Got to 100* today.
On the down side, my agent had told me the bed there was a full-size but when I looked at it again, it looked bigger than mine so I measured it and it is a queen. Darn! My bedding is for a full-sized bed and I love my comforter set. I tried to find it on line in a queen but it has been discontinued. Now I am trying to decide if I should keep the bed and get a new comforter set or keep the set and get a new bed. Logically, getting a new comforter set makes more sense, but then the queen bed takes up so much space in that small room that a full sized bed would give me more room in there to move around. Then again, I already sold my full sized bed and frame so I would have to get rid of the bigger bed and frame and buy a new full sized one. Decisions, decisions....
I had time also to go thru all the cupboards, cabinets and drawers in the house. All completely full of stuff! Dishes, pots and pans, utensils, towels, bedding, cleaning products, many sets of wine glasses, canned food, tons of spices, cookie sheets, lots of glass casserole dishes, dozens of mugs, and even a large safe (open but don't have the combination for it). So I will have my work cut out for me to go thru it all and donate or toss most of it. Will maybe keep some of it. It was dark in the house since most of the windows have insulated panels on them to keep the hot sun out while it is vacant.
After that, I went to several golf cart stores to look at some and asked lots of questions since I know absolutely nothing about golf carts. Got some helpful information. So now I have a better idea of what to look for in a used model. One of them even had a swamp cooler on the roof!
Later I drove to the Palm Springs Visitor Center that is in an old retro gas station. Then went down town Palm Springs and walked around, bought a couple things and had a hot fudge banana sundae at Ruby's Diner.
I will head out fairly early tomorrow morning after a quick breakfast, heading for home. Of course, the high here tomorrow is supposed to be only 75*. That couldn't have happened today...