To move or not to move
How did you know it was your time to sell? My partner and I keep going back and forth on selling our house. It truly is lovely with so much natural light and a beautiful view which makes leaving so hard.
Our options would be:
- Build on family land
- Buy land next to our house and continue investing into our house and then build a garage and shed.
We thought our current house would be our forever house but after living in it we aren’t quite sure. For reference it requires a ton of work. The people who built the house ended up moving away and selling it before it was finished. We have finished the upstairs. Downstairs is not finished and there’s so much landscaping to be done we don’t know where to start.
If we buy we will want at least an acre of land. We have almost that with this house now but doing all of this work and the house still not being exactly what we want is overwhelming. We don’t want to keep investing in this place and end up not making our money back. And we don’t know what to do first. We want it all done like now but that’s just not possible and I don’t think we’ve come to terms with that yet.
I think building would be our top pick if we could afford it but we aren’t sure about that right now. It would definitely be a self build.
One other thing that makes leaving is we currently don’t have a town council so we can do what we want on our land. The family land is 5 mins down the road but does have a council which is something we hate the thought of.
In saying that, by the time we get this property, house finished and land purchased, we will likely be over the price of building another house.
I’m open to hearing anyone’s experience while contemplating moving or staying at your house.