I'm selling my beautiful little home in the desert

[Melsky]

Well, I finally have my house on the market. Already have had one couple look at it and call back for more info.


I hate to sell this place, I love it and I have been so happy here. But my husband found a job he loves in another city, so it's bye bye.

Here's the web page for the house with tons of pictures!

http://catclipart.homestead.com/deserthome.html

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. I'll forward this link to a couple of my friends that are looking

out that way! Hope you are staying in California!!

[Droopy]

2. Nice house, beautiful scenery

That's a good price for that, too.

I'm from Ohio, but I've been out to California on several occasions as I used to be an over-the-road trucker. The desert southwest was one of my favorite places to go. I wish I could buy your house! I'd love it out there.

[Fridays Child]

3. I love your cat art!

:hi:

[Melsky]

15. Thanks Mary Pat

:hi: to you too!

[Bronco69]

4. OK, here's a wierd question...

Being in the middle of the desert, do you get a lot of rattlers by your house? I was never so glad to leave Phoenix in my life because I have a deathly fear of snakes.

[rbnyc]

5. I'll take it.

Is that price right? That's amazing. How can that be?

[Melsky]

6. It is a good price

especially if you are used to big city prices.

Sadly, my husband couldn't find a job anywhere in California, but he did get an excellent one in Toronto. It's close to his family, not my family. He has a temporary work permit. We may well be back in California in a couple years if the economy ever improves.

Meanwhile, after we sell this house we will be totally out of debt and have a downpayment for something else.

I do hate to sell it though.

I've only seen one snake here, and it wasn't a rattler.

[rbnyc]

7. I'm used to desert critters.

What's the nearest city? How long of a commute? I already emailed the link to my husband.

[Melsky]

9. Palm springs is an hour away

Maybe more, depends on how fast you drive! Indio is smaller, but also close. It's about 3.5 hours away from LA, San Diego and Vegas.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

11. and about 4 hours from Phoenix!

It is also within one hour of San Bernardino and Riverside..also big cities

[sally343434]

8. Nice place

You'll like Toronto. It's a very civilized and cosmopolitan city.

I have the money and have half a mind to write out the check right now! But I'd be awfully lonely out there by myself.

[Melsky]

14. I'm enjoying the solitude

I'm kind of nervous to be amongst humans again. All the people I see now are the people at the post office when I mail my art.

[izzie]

10. I moved 25 times for a husband that always found a new work place.

40 years of it. Good luck.

[BeHereNow]

12. I'd like to drive out!

I have been looking out there forever!
I am in LA area- PM me?
BHN

[Melsky]

16. Check your inbox

[tridim]

13. $69k for 1150sf and 5 acres?

Whoa! Living in Denver has totally skewed my view of how much houses cost. $69k will maybe buy you a crappy 1 br condo here in Denver. My cheaply constructed townhouse cost $160k and I have no yard and no garage. I think I could live in the desert if it was within 10 miles of civilization.

[Melsky]

23. This house is a real deal

That price is only good for the next month, as I'm going to list it with an agent if it doesn't sell, and the price will go up to compensate for the commission.

[soothsayer]

17. gee, Melsky----this seems so sudden. glad I got desert paintings of yours

---"And They Were Never Heard From Again" and a nifty joshua tree hand painted magnet.

Reckon you'll get all kinds of new inspiration in your new digs----looking forward to seeing what you come up with....!

Good luck!

[Melsky]

18. I'll miss the desert

My husband had been out of work for over a year when he got this job. We really thought he would be able to get something in LA.

I think I will still keep doing the desert paintings, I have 1,000,000,000 photos for reference.

Here's the painting. I painted it from real life!

[greendog]

19. That's a great painting....

...sorry you have to move. I love the desert.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

20. Hey I DO need to hook up with you before you leave the area

I'd really like to meet you....hope we can make it work before you take off.

[CanuckAmok]

21. Yikes! At least it's for a good reason....

You'll enjoy your destination, though. Be sure to bring extra socks!

That's a very nice house, by the way.

[Cat Atomic]

22. Hey, neat-o. I grew up in Banning. I know that area very well. :)

[Piperay]

24. Very nice

house and beautiful scenery, as a fellow Californian I also know how hard it must be to leave. You're lucky though because you are going to a whole new country and will be away from all the crap here.

[gator_in_Ontario]

25. omg

my dream home....and close to vegas?

[Le Taz Hot]

26. This reminds me a lot of my grandmother's house

in Joshua Tree. My step-grandfather bought 5 acres in the 1960's for almost nothing. There was already a "cabin" on it (no running water, no electricity, no pluming, etc.) They gradually made improvements, built on and right before he retired, they finished it off.

[LWolf]

27. It looks like home.

So much like home that I'm homesick.

I lived for 12 years in a neighborhood just like that, but an hour or two west of you. Except that the house was a disaster; an old homestead shack that had been haphazardly added onto a few times. We worked hard making it livable on a tight budget, but it was never done. It didn't matter. I loved it. I loved the wide open spaces and the total solitude. I didn't leave willingly, and I've never acclimated to living "in town." Even though my place in town has empty space on 2 sides, it's not the same.

I can't move to Amboy; too far from my job. But if I could, I would!

Good fortune with your sale, and happy trails to your new home.