Base Housing Question

[Coota0]

Does married officer's base housing have washers, dryers and refrigerators?

 

[EODDave]

They have a fridge, dishwasher, stove and they have hook ups for a washer dryer.

 

[mslbc]

It will depend on what base you are at. Some installations provide them and some do not.

 

[Fred]

We have always had a fridge and stove provided by housing. The only time we were provided with a washer and dryer was overseas. We have lived on 7 different bases.

 

[webmaster]

Wow, can't match Fred on that, only 4 here, and kinda depressed I have stayed in that many to begin with, shoulda had the $$ towards some equity instead... sigh... Then again, Fred is probably staying in the "upscale" base housing neighborhoods now!

Where I HAVE been:

Old Moanaloa Terrace (Navy's Worst Housing circa 1990), Pearl Harbor, Ha'waii
- no A/C brah!!
- no dishwasher
- no washer
- no dryer
- ALL the centipedes you want
** bulldozed and made into new housing a while ago

Cecil Field (aka Yellow Waters, who the heck thought up THAT name?), Jacksonville, FL
- only two officers in the whole housing, we were one of them
- no washer
- no dryer
- no sound of pesky F18s flying over head since NAS Cecil closed , just the sound of "freedom" the MIGHTY Orion doing touch and gos!!

Kaneohoe Bay, HI
- no washer
- no dryer
- no AC
- no dishwasher
- 100 feet from the beach ("priceless", glad to be going back!!)

Japan
- washer
- dryer
- fridge
- dishwasher
- and EXCELLENT japanese repair service (no more honey "do" lists, just call the workmen)

And in EACH AND EVERYONE ONE OF THEM, lovely government issue LINOLEUM TILE throughout!! Luckily we have A LOT of really nice rugs from around the globe to take care of that!

 

[Fred]

Wow, can't match Fred on that, only 4 here, and kinda depressed I have stayed in that many to begin with, shoulda had the $$ towards some equity instead... sigh... Then again, Fred is probably staying in the "upscale" base housing neighborhoods now! :

We live in our own house now. :icon_smil First time we bought. Buying before now just didn't make sense. IF the kids and I move to my husbands new duty station we could get a really nice (4000-6000sqft) Big Old Navy style house...in a bad school dist. I doubt we will take it. Based on the real estate trend we will probably buy.

We lived in the NAS Chase Field housing in Beeville, TX...now a prison. The houses didn't pass the inspection for Section 8 (welfare) Housing so they tore them down about year after we left.

NAS Lemoore twice. First time we were there was only 11mo, second time 8mo.

La Mesa housing for NPS Monterey. We should have bought in Monterey but $260K+ on Lt pay with 2.5 kids in 94 seemed way too expensive.

We lived in Japan twice. Kamiseya the first time and on NAF Atsugi the second.

We could have bought in Ridgecrest (China Lake) but we were only there 16mo and had a really nice 2400sqft house in base.

We bought in Va Beach...and I am sooo glad we did. We could sell it today for 40% more than we paid a little over 2.5 years ago.

 

[Coota0]

Thanks for the information, guess my wife and I'll be buying the washer and dryer for that last year of school. looks like it will be an investment. Being from Texas I can't imagine not having air conditioning, was it an issue?

We lived in the NAS Chase Field housing in Beeville, TX...now a prison. The houses didn't pass the inspection for Section 8 (welfare) Housing so they tore them down about year after we left.

When I was a baby, my dad was a coach at Beeville High, we lived in the apartments accross from the base. My mom keeps telling my wife that she's lucky that Beeville closed because it means no possibility of being stationed in the ass end of Texas, mom wasn't real fond of Beeville.

 

[Fred]

When I was a baby, my dad was a coach at Beeville High, we lived in the apartments accross from the base. My mom keeps telling my wife that she's lucky that Beeville closed because it means no possibility of being stationed in the ass end of Texas, mom wasn't real fond of Beeville.

Beeville was BAD. We had great parties though. : )

 

[mslbc]

We live in Hawaii now in a house with no A/C. Yes it get's hot. You either suffer or get Window A/C's. We have three and they are nice ones and it's still hot. They are building new now and most all have central A/C