I ask this because me and my wife are seriously considering relocating, but we both get really sad with the thought of selling our house. We absolutely love our house, and have put a lot of work into to make it reflect our personality. This is one of those cases in which I wish our house had wheels...
My house, not so much...my neighbor absolutley. He is actually the reason, the only reason neither of us want to move. Hes a great guy and i never worry about my wife and kids being home alone while im gone somewhere.
I'd sell in a heartbeat if it made sense for me $$$ wise. Unfortunately I'm not in that position now, and I'm at the point where any additional $$$ into this place is going to be wasted.
I have done a lot over the past seven years here making this place just right for us... I literally have nothing left other than building another garage to have it just the way we want it. Having said that, I do not have that much of an attachment to our home. Everything I did here I could do somewhere else. The best part of this place is it will be paid off in 12 years thanks to the new refinance we just did!
We bought our house in 1992. While it is our home... both the wife and I would move if a better job came up or we found a nice place out in the country. The kids on the other hand love this place and would be crush if we moved. Especially Britney our youngest daughter. Tyler would probably not be very happy with us either. Britney graduates high school in 2018. I am seriously thinking about finding something else job wise and moving. I just don't know if I want to suffer it out until then. I am not getting any younger to be starting over. It will be a cold day in hell before I would work for another farmer as I have currently been doing for the last 24 years. The pay is **** and they want you working all the time. Tim
I'm not that attached at this point. However as our kids get older I think there will be a physic value of raising our kids in this house and the memories made here. Having said that, I'd move because it is still just a bunch of lumber, drywall, pipes and concrete. Look at it this way Hook. I'd bet you could walk around your house and say.... well I wish we would of done option B instead of what we did. When you move you can do it again and make your house even better.
I'm much more attached to the soil in my yard than the actual house. But the house does have a lot of 'charm' being that it was built in 1882. Charm that lets in wind, insects and rodents. Charm that makes the walls crooked and the floors uneven. Charm that give the plaster and lathe walls added character. (AKA patched cracks) The charm of knob and tube wiring.... Our house does reflect our personalities. From the Gasden flag out front to the reloading bench in the bedroom... ammo shelves and bow racks in the dining room. But we haven't done anything with the paint, trim or floorcoverings. We do have some sort of window treatments on about half the windows. We also have hung some dead things on the walls. I wouldn't let a house stop you from relocating. There are houses all over just waiting for you to personalize.
True, but my Dad wouldn't be able to help me with the remodeling, and I doubt I would be able to put rustic beams from the old community post office found on my parent's property in our new house if we moved to Seattle... The wife is more attached than me at this point. She really freaking loves our house. I guess I need to just sell it as a new opportunity to decorate.
We were lucky and picked this place up dirt cheap. The guy that had it was retired and wanted to move closer to his family to spend time with the grand kids. He wanted a family to move in so he cut me a great deal. I was his neighbor so he knew me. He like our oldest daughter and Tyler who was just starting to walk so that really helped. We payed it off in 2.5 years. It is worth 6 or 7 times now then what I payed for it but being out in the middle off no where... I couldn't sell it to cover the cost of a house in a more populated area. Make a hell of a down payment though !!! Tim
We plan on being here another 20 years. I can be hunting in 10 minutes (less for squirrels) out my back door. I am finishing the turkey pens, the goat barn just needs mods/additions here and there, the chickens are good. The soil is just now getting good where we plant/grow food and we'll be getting berry bushes in next year. The kitchen has the stove we love and is rebuilt the way we like it. We get plenty of wood out back to heat the house in the winter even though we have replaced the 35 yr old furnace and AC. At this point I can't imagine moving but, I suppose if the great opportunity showed up, we could.
Even with as much work as I've done to my place, I would also sell in a heartbeat for the right place. I have no intentions of staying here forever. If it means moving further away from this place where land is now automatically $8k-$12k/acre, so be it.
Love my house .. wouldn't want to sell it.... but if the situation was such that I could get all the land I wanted with a new build .... adios casa!
I'm very emotionally mixed on this subject. The house itself I have no attachement to, despite having put a lot of work into it. I LOVE where I am and my neighbors though. Not even the slightest rift in 11 years. This is also the house my ex & I bought together. From a financial standpoint I could not move if I wanted, the house still needs more work to get it into a sellable condition or I'd get slaughtered. I hate the process of packing & moving & looking for houses too. But I would SO love to just pick up & move to the rocky mountains somewhere.
We have a plan of moving in the next 7-8 years. We really like our house but would like to be a little more sucluded in the same town. We shouldn't have a problem selling considering both neighbors just sold and they were on the market less for less than 2 days.
9 more years and the place is all mine. I would move tomorrow if the right offer came up. As soon as my daughters off to college we will sell everything and buy an RV
Are you going to take your BIL with you when you move? Maybe he could help you with some remodeling ideas?
I always assumed if I moved it will be for a "step up" so we could do it...but I'm happy with current set-up and so are the kids...don't mind if I live 50 more years here either... Houses are material - the people make the home.
