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On selling our house

WHAT HAVE WE DONE?!  This is the story about how we came to selling our house.  As I had mentioned (oh just about a time or twelve)…this wasn’t my “forever” house by any means.  I had kinda been feeling “over” this house…ready to move on.  I knew it would either be now or we’d wait until next spring.  I was fine with either option….UNTIL, we stumbled across a hell of a deal on a lake lot.  It seemed too good to be true.  So, we decided, what the hell!?  We put the house on the market and figured whatever happens, happens.  Well, it sold in three weeks.  So, there’s that.  Through a series of events…the lake lot we initially thought we were going to get sold and we have a “contingent” offer on another one, it’s still an amazing deal BUT the downfall is it is a small lot.  About the same size we are on now, which isn’t big.  So, the building dream has kinda dwindled.  There are SO many thoughts going through our heads right now.  SO many decisions.  Let me lay them out…

 

On building:  we are still on a strict budget, so to build a “custom” home right now, we would have to build small.  We could go with a “big builder” and not do “custom” and get more square footage… but do I really want that?  Do I even want to live a year of my life in a rental for something that isn’t my dream home?  And this lot…it isn’t big enough to have a huge yard for the kids, which is really important to us.  But a brand new home for the same amount as a fixer upper….??

 

OR, do we buy a fixer upper?  We are in “verbal” negotiations with a realtor on a fixer upper on the lake.  The house is AWFUL, old, and extremely odd.  It would need a full gut job and we would have to enclose the garage to make a playroom/family room right away to make the house big enough for our family.  BUT!  The house sits on 1.2 acres of GLORIOUS flat land with an amazing lake view.  Do you know how rare it is to get over an acre on the lake!??  I absolutely LOVE the land, love it.  I envision many a football games in the yard and all the kids just running around for days with ample room.  There is plenty of room for us to add on to the house in coming years.  But, again. The house.  Is awful.  They’ve come down on price but I’m not sure it’s enough, we will need to sink a good bit of money in it to make it livable for us.  

 

Selling our house is so bittersweet.  Our best friends are our neighbors and we do love our neighborhood.  We just didn’t love our house and were both ready to be ON the lake if we could make it work.  My emotions are all over the place right now…goodness. 

 

WHAT TO DO?!?

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