Once Bern had retired from Greenpoint Financial, we tried spending a couple years up in the Northeast, but the looong winters took their toll, and eventually forced us south.
We took a trip and spent a week at a friends condo in Hollywood, FL, but all the time we were there, time and again, we found ourselves gravitating back up to Delray Beach, a place we had discovered roaming all along the coast from town to town, seeing what's what, and looking at real estate.
As luck would have it, a snowstorm up North delayed us from returning home for a couple extra days. So we took the time, and went out again on the hunt for an apartment. We received a call from a realtor we had been working with... he mentioned something new had just come on the market that morning (sounded like that same old line)... but it in fact in this instance it was true.
He told us that he was going to bring us three places, and we would 'connect' with the third... he did, and we did!
Walking in the door, we both looked out at the view, then towards each other, and in unison said "we'll take it!"
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| The Delray Summit, Lowry Street, Delray Beach, FL |
Each year we say this is the last, 'we have to sell'... another year goes by... same thing.
Delray's a great little town... the local CoC likes to call it the...
.... 'Village-by-the-Sea'... guess it is.
Not having to get into the car to go out to eat was our main priority when first started looking for a place. Having the beach and the intracoastal right on top of us was (is) an enormous bonus.
A Delray builder over 50 years ago built four tall buildings in town... then they changed the zoning, not allowing anything higher than four stories.
Our apartment on the 8th floor looks north and south towards the ocean, and out over the intracoastal... in our opinion, some of the best views in town....
... always will be.
