Timely thread..we close this week on our retirement home with 250+ ft of frontage on a small, no-motor lake with amazing views from inside and outside the house. It's bigger than we wanted, needs to be updated (was built late 90s) and is a heck of a lot more expensive than I ever in my wildest dreams would have planned on spending..but the views are amazing and we're even adjacent to a nature preserve on one side..so, only one neighbor who's reasonably far away.
Moving from a sub with 450+ houses, one of which is about 25' from my property line. We LOVE our current house so it's tough to leave the house itself..but not so tough to leave the property where we're on top of other people, some of who are nice..and others who are not as nice.
Gonna be a big change..property of the new house is amazing but still pretty darn stressful! Especially as we'll be going backwards in terms of house functionality and upgrades and will be spending a big bucket of $$ (above and beyond what we'll net on this house after commissions, etc) to do so..but as I tell the wife..we're "buying dirt", and THAT, you can't change - unlike the house itself.
What's even more crazy is that we haven't even listed our current house yet as it's not ready. Yikes. Best case, it goes on the market 9/1. So I'll be carrying two houses for a while. With no W-2 paychecks, that's CRAZY stressful and I'm wondering what in God's name I was ever thinking..