Home again, home again…
I’m back but I’m still waiting for the pictures that the photographer took of my sister’s house so I can share them with you but let me tell you — it looks awesome!
I was there for one day short of two weeks and worked every single day. We did go shopping one day and to the beach for a few hours a couple times too, but it was mostly work.
I’m totally ok with that, that’s why I went.
My sister was in over her head trying to get her house on the market and had hired help that ended up creating more work…
I’ve been there!
I just finished “being there” on my own house so I knew what she was going through and went to help her out.
Working so hard on house projects so soon after …working so hard on house projects, made me realize that I am ready to NOT work so hard on a house.
I decided that I wanted to buy a nice new house that didn’t need a whole lot of tearing up and remodeling. Built ins and decorating- yes! Tearing out walls, replacing flooring, and every other thing in the house – not so much.
So, we made an offer on the one house that fit the bill (mostly) when I got back yesterday.
The seller came back without budging (hardly) so we walked away.
Now I’m back to looking at total fixer uppers, which are plentiful in this area!
I’m not super excited about taking on a complete home remodel again but it looks like that is what we are going to have to do.
I’ve never, in all my years of buying houses, seen such a poor excuse for options.
At this point, we have to give up on at least one of the things on our list that was a MUST have for our future house.
I can have a house with 9′ ceilings and literally no yard,
or I can have a house with 8′ ceilings with a great yard!
I think we can live with 8′ ceilings for a few years because I know I can make every other aspect of the house super cute and functional and awesome!
The thing I’m worried about is resale…
What would you do?
We’ve considered every option. Buying a fixer upper and having a contractor come in and get it ready to move in (hopefully quickly), staying in the rental and continuing to store our stuff for $3000 monthly (we didn’t pick the location and had no idea of the cost) until our house was ready. The problem is that our corporate relocation benefits only extend for a 1 year period and that is already half over. We never stay anywhere very long. There is no way to predict but I never plan on being anywhere more than 3 years so I don’t want to spend 1 year of it deciding what to do. It’s better for us to get into something rather generic, something that will be easy to sell again and get on with living. Someday, maybe, we will build our own home and stay there for 10 years. Maybe. We never know! And you are right, I will always find something that I want to change and when I’m finally done changing everything, I’ll be ready to move again. 🙂
Is hiring a construction company to do the really major work before you move in out of the question? Also could you live in a raw space until you could get around to the work on it? My third question is that when Maddie goes back to school in a couple months and you are home alone could there ever be a space that you didnt fix? Oh wait I have one more, how long do you think you will live there? My suspicion is that you are too creative and head strong to not be constantly tweaking your home anyway, but I totally get why if you are going to be there for a year and a half you dont want to get in too deep.