We are moving into a NEW house!!! If we won the lottery, I don’t think we could be happier! We have been on the “new house waiting list” since November 2006, and were told we were #181 at that time, based on seniority. We got a call last Monday that our number was up and would we be interested in a new single family home? The answer was yes, of course!
The U.S. Government currently has a partnership with several private companies to rebuild the old housing that is part of the military housing around the United States. Normally, when we live in military housing, we do not pay rent. If we choose to live off base, we would be given a housing allowance. For this partnership, we are given the housing allowance, and then we pay it as rent to the development company. This gives them the money needed to rebuild the communities.
When we moved into the military housing in November 2005, all of the new homes were occupied and there was no waiting list. We moved into an old home. By military policy, once you have a place to live, you have a place to live. There is no opportunity to move within the base housing. You can leave at any point, but once you're there, you're there.
Since we are here much longer than originally planned, we are paying into the new houses more than most people and we are not receiving the benefit of living in one. The cost of rent off base is much more than we receive for the allowance, so we are forced to live on the military housing. (Forget even buying a home here…)
A group of us families got together and complained about the situation. The Commander listened and had a new policy put in place to allow families like us who will be here long term to move into the new houses… So here we are!
We are now waiting for the City Inspector to come and give the Certificate of Occupancy! We were getting pretty frustrated that we couldn’t buy a house or afford to live in a better situation, but now we’re pretty sure we got the best deal!
Anyone want to come help us move?
About Me
- Jeff and Karen Doherty
- We were married in September 2005. We're best friends, and we love traveling and exploring new places. We like sci-fi movies and watching the history channel. Our little boy was born February 1, 2010. He is named Jeff Jr. or JJ. Our daughter Moira was born July 28, 2011. We have a cat named Munchkin. Jeff is a career military officer, and Karen works for a family services program for the Army. We live in Monterey, California. We are making this blog for our family and friends who we miss and want to share our life with.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
S K Y D I V I N G!!!
What an experience!!! WOW!!! We went skydiving December 16th and it was so totally incredible, beyond words – you have to do it to understand the feeling!!!
We went up to 15,000 feet and did a tandem jump with an instructor. We had a 60 second free fall, and then the instructors opened the parachutes and we slowly drifted to the ground. The free fall was wild; it didn’t feel like we were falling at all, but like we were being pushed upwards. The time when the chute was open felt like we were sitting in the air. When we landed, there was no impact - all of a sudden I was sitting on the ground.
We have to do this again!!!
We went up to 15,000 feet and did a tandem jump with an instructor. We had a 60 second free fall, and then the instructors opened the parachutes and we slowly drifted to the ground. The free fall was wild; it didn’t feel like we were falling at all, but like we were being pushed upwards. The time when the chute was open felt like we were sitting in the air. When we landed, there was no impact - all of a sudden I was sitting on the ground.
We have to do this again!!!
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