I have, finally, posted pictures of my trip to Richmond online. These are pictures I took Sunday as I drove around. For more information on the route I took, see this post. Enjoy. The pictures can be found here
Tour of Richmond
On Sunday after church, I decided to go for a drive around Richmond and see what I could see. I spent about 4 hours driving around different areas of the city. My goal was to try and get a general feel for different parts of the city, neighborhood conditions, etc…. I tried to focus on areas of the city that Larry didn't take us to on Saturday. If you want to see where I went, click the map below:
I started near the upper right-hand corner of the map at the H (that is where my hotel was…in the Insbrook Corporate Center). The route I took is marked by arrows indicating the direction of travel. the two spots marked with a 1 and 2 indicate two rental properties I saw that looked interesting. The Cs indicate churches that Cyndi and I may be interested in. I tried to put all this stuff together into one place so we could look and think about everything in perspective. I wish I had taken the map with us on Saturday to mark that route as well. If I had to do it over again, I would take my GPS unit to track where we were, and mark waypoints at the interesting spots. Oh well, hopefully someone else can learn from my experience.
Today in Richmond
Today, we spent time with Larry (the real estate agent) who showed us around town. His wife is also a real estate agent. You can access her website here. We learned alot about the town, commute times, what places he would recommend we live, the housing market, the rental market, etc…. We saw so much stuff, it is hard to digest it all (forget about even trying to write about it all!). What I should have done was brought my GPS and tracked where we went exactly; however, I didn't think about that.
Cyndi and I drank from the firehose today…now, we just need to decide what we are going to do. We want to rent a house in the country; however, we'll never find a house like the one we had in Huntington (thanks David and Betty). The way we are leaning now, we will, if given the opportunity by the IMB, stay in temporary quarters, find a place to rent, then start looking for a place to buy.