Our condo in Breckenridge

We bought a condo in Breckenridge!!

Ava stealing cereal from the pantry

We are so lucky that we have been able to do this, and hope that it is a place where the Oliver family can get together to share good times with extended family and friends.  We owe a huge thank you to Jason's grandparents Frances and Raymond Oliver, without whom we would not have been able to do this.  Whenever we go there, we will thank them, honor them and appreciate their adventurous souls.

For those of you who don't know, Breckenridge is very special to us.  We met there in 2005, at which time Jason was living there.  We were married there in 2007.  Since moving to Colorado in 2011, we have spent many weekends in the area and love it.  It's about a 2 - 2.5 hour drive from our house.

We started looking at real estate seriously in November, and then made an offer on Dec 6.  Since then, things have been very busy getting together documents for the loan, down payment, inspection, title company, etc.  We've also had to get our plans organized in terms of how much to use it ourselves vs. how much to rent it.

For the remainder of this ski season, it will serve us as primarily a rental property.  This is partly to make the initial transaction work financially and partly because we don't have ski passes in Summit County this year.

We hired a property management company to serve as a local service to help coordinate keys, inspection, small repairs, and a cleaning company.  We posted our page on vrbo.com and immediately had several requests for renting.

We got the keys on Fri Jan 16th from our awesome realtor, Matt Powers at Colorado Premier in Breckenridge, and spent the weekend up there with the girls.  Although the place came mostly furnished, there was still work to be done and things to be organized in order to get it ready for renters.  We bought a tv, got utilities hooked up, bought small things for the kitchen, etc.

Deciding what to pack up to take to our new home

welcoming gift from our awesome realtor, Matt Powers in Breckenridge

We didn't get as much done that weekend as we had hoped, although I (Meggan) did get to skin up Peak 8 at Breck and ski down with 2 girlfriends.  Jason got in a little running at altitude.  And we took the girls sledding and to the library.

We didn't sleep much at all during the weekend, since Ava continues to have trouble sleeping when she's not in her own crib.

We drove home with no traffic, since the Broncos were playing again.

Ava tries her best to mess up the new kitchen

Rachel and Ava eat breakfast in our new kitchen

Rachel unpacks silverware

Ava unpacks pots and pans

Didn't take us long to break in the couch

Organizing tv and cables

New entry way shelf/cubbies

Jason went up again the next weekend to finish organizing everything with another couple and playing in the mountains without the girls there to 'help'.

R loves the bunk bed

The place is now totally ready and we had our first renters this past weekend.  We have about 35 nights rented out for the rest of the season, and then we hope to start being able to enjoy it ourselves a little more!

Here is the link to our rental page, although we need to add more pictures soon:
http://www.vrbo.com/667992

Of course we'd love to have you come visit and play with us in the mountains!  Let us know when you can come.

Until then, we'll be at our normal house playing with the kids.