Didn't See This Coming
On May 16, with less than three weeks left in Italy, we FINALLY closed escrow on the house we'll be putting on the property we've owned for 12 years in southeastern Arizona. Securing and closing on the financing was a yearlong process and it took FOUR notarized signings before we finally closed the deal. YAY! Back in 2013, after it became painfully clear that we had no reasonable funding options to build the house we had worked with an architect to design, we began work with Cavco on doing a manufactured house. We settled on a Santa Fe style home and we've fortunately been able to make some personalized changes to the floor plan. It's something they've stopped doing because of the high production demand but fortunately our house made it in under the wire. On our property, in the years before we moved to Italy, we laid some ground work. We pulled in electric, put in the septic tank, dug the well, cut in the road, and had the construction site graded. While