The Story For Another Day

If you go back and look at my February 10th post, you will notice that at the end I mentioned that we ended up in Winter Garden again.  On my Feb. 9th post I also mentioned that we shared a table with a couple and friends that said they lived down the road at Oakland Park, a nice community with Craftsman style houses.

I am writing this many months later because that encounter completely changed our lives. I am now only getting around to update the blog because we have been extremely busy because we bought a house and moved to that community! Oakland Park in Winter Garden Florida  Florida! Just Wow!

Click here to see the webpage for our community: Oakland Park Website

So getting back to the story: When we ended up in Winter Garden again, we came down Tildenville School Road and took a right towards town.  After going through town, Elly mentioned that we must have missed Oakland Park and asked if we should turn around and go find it. We were both tired and decided that we should just head back to the house in Mount Dora.  As we were leaving Winter Garden, there was a large parking lot (Park & Dillard) so I quickly turned in and stopped to look to see where Oakland Park was on the GPS.  We decided to turn around & check it out.

As we pulled into Oakland Park, we say two signs: Open House or Model.  We decided to go see the Open House.  Inside we met the realtor, Mauro, and looked around.  It was a two story and Elly was done doing stairs, so we asked Mauro if and single story homes were available.  He told us that one had just come on the market two days ago.  After contacting the owners we hopped in Mauro's car and drove over to the one story. As it turned out, Mauro lived two houses away. As we drove up, we saw this cute little bungalow.

835 Easley for Sale

So we went inside

Mauro in the entry Hall

Mauro & Elly in the kitchen

We both immediately fell in love with the house. We looked at each other and said "Yah, we could live here!"  So we went next door to Mauro's house to make an offer on the house.

A few days later, our offer was accepted and Mauro welcomed us to Florida! we both said "Shit, what do we do now.  There was a lot of paperwork to get a mortgage because we still had our house back in Sterling. It was like the Spanish Inquisition, but it all worked out in the end and all the people that we dealt with were great!

Closing was done back in Boston in March with a rep from the Title Escrow Company. So now we owned two houses. Time to sell our house in Sterling.

More Realtor pictures of the house:

Front Office

Kitchen

Master Bath

Patio

Back screened n Porch (Lanai)

Living Room

Front Hall