Kronk
Full time employment: Posting here.
Well, maybe it won't be stucco.
We bought our house 2 years out of college as a starter house. Years go by. We pay it off, have a miserable business failure, and pay it off again. Several more years go by.
We have been mulling over redoing the kitchen for many years now. We decided to go to open houses to see if just maybe we'd rather buy a new house than redo that -- plus the walkway, 2 bathrooms, the guest bedroom. And even then we wouldn't really like the house.
So now we're looking. One of the open houses we really liked a lot, and it fits us pretty well. The house is interesting, secluded yet close to main roads, well-constructed, and has almost all the features we want.
Whatever we buy will have higher taxes, and most likely higher utilities and upkeep.
But at this point, with retirement at least 10 years away, I'd rather buy a nice house like this and have retirement be 13 years away. Or at least have the option of selling that house, downsizing, and still not putting off retirement for too long past that 10 year mark.
Looking at houses is fun. Getting our current house ready for putting it on the market will not be.
We bought our house 2 years out of college as a starter house. Years go by. We pay it off, have a miserable business failure, and pay it off again. Several more years go by.
We have been mulling over redoing the kitchen for many years now. We decided to go to open houses to see if just maybe we'd rather buy a new house than redo that -- plus the walkway, 2 bathrooms, the guest bedroom. And even then we wouldn't really like the house.
So now we're looking. One of the open houses we really liked a lot, and it fits us pretty well. The house is interesting, secluded yet close to main roads, well-constructed, and has almost all the features we want.
Whatever we buy will have higher taxes, and most likely higher utilities and upkeep.
But at this point, with retirement at least 10 years away, I'd rather buy a nice house like this and have retirement be 13 years away. Or at least have the option of selling that house, downsizing, and still not putting off retirement for too long past that 10 year mark.
Looking at houses is fun. Getting our current house ready for putting it on the market will not be.