The End of the House Story
This is where our home search has lead us...
Yes, right back to where we started.
For a few details, this week we had the inspection on the house we planned to buy, and it just wasn't a positive report. That paired with little strange things that we were prepared to be fine with just made us realize that we couldn't feel good about buying that house with the intent that it be our 'forever' home. And when we move from this house, we really want to move to our forever home.
In the last month or two, I've said several times that I really don't care if we go or stay, I just want to be done being in limbo, so this feels pretty good to me. There is some sadness at not being near water and woods and having our own little private plot of earth, but we trust that time will come.
For now, we are diving into remodeling plans to make the space we have more useable. We plan to redo the basement and create an outdoor living space that will be a 'quiet' retreat. Not quite a woods, but hopefully relaxing and inviting. We can pay down on this house quickly, be freer financially, and probably move then in 5-10 years. So in the end, we're pretty excited.
I know it's a weird ending to the story that seemed so perfectly amazing, but we can see several good things that have come from the whole process. I know we prayed for Sue and her family a ton, which never would have happened if we hadn't met her and planned to buy her house. We also would have hesitated to spend money on our house before this whole process, not knowing how long we'd be here. But after looking for about a year and trying to sell for about 7 months, we know we don't want to do this again anytime soon. :)
And that's the news from Lake Wobegon...
Yes, right back to where we started.
For a few details, this week we had the inspection on the house we planned to buy, and it just wasn't a positive report. That paired with little strange things that we were prepared to be fine with just made us realize that we couldn't feel good about buying that house with the intent that it be our 'forever' home. And when we move from this house, we really want to move to our forever home.
In the last month or two, I've said several times that I really don't care if we go or stay, I just want to be done being in limbo, so this feels pretty good to me. There is some sadness at not being near water and woods and having our own little private plot of earth, but we trust that time will come.
For now, we are diving into remodeling plans to make the space we have more useable. We plan to redo the basement and create an outdoor living space that will be a 'quiet' retreat. Not quite a woods, but hopefully relaxing and inviting. We can pay down on this house quickly, be freer financially, and probably move then in 5-10 years. So in the end, we're pretty excited.
I know it's a weird ending to the story that seemed so perfectly amazing, but we can see several good things that have come from the whole process. I know we prayed for Sue and her family a ton, which never would have happened if we hadn't met her and planned to buy her house. We also would have hesitated to spend money on our house before this whole process, not knowing how long we'd be here. But after looking for about a year and trying to sell for about 7 months, we know we don't want to do this again anytime soon. :)
And that's the news from Lake Wobegon...
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Love ya,
P.S. I really loved having Faye this morning!
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