WatchingThemGrow
05-23-2012, 01:25 PM
It's more of a "I'm not enjoying this stage" complaint than a full-on BP entry.
We have rented our house out (it didn't sell) and we have what I would consider to be a decent amount of credit to purchase a 4 BR home. Prices here are high, and volume is loooow. We couldn't get the first house because the seller only wants full-price or nothing (after being on the market a year) and the second home, although it has its weirdness, would work beautifully for our family for the years to come. However, the builder/renovator of the 2nd home seemed like he (well through his nice realtor wife) would work with us to make it fit within our budget. They just said "nope, our price" and we can't make it there and still feed our kids. There's just a $10K difference between our price and theirs.
So now we're packing up, moving furniture into a POD, clothing, toys, cooking stuff, medicines, etc. into a storage unit so we can access them during the summer, and living "on the road" at the ILs' beach house, my mom's, a friend's condo, etc. until we can find a place. We HAVE a place (rather places) to stay during the transition time, but we would really like to know (please Lord, sooner than later) where we will be landing. It's gross to pull stuff down out of our attic, try to shuffle it around, try to still live here in the meantime, and figure out which direction everything needs to be going. I know that if I had a destination (aka nice new house in a fun neighborhood where DC and DH and I have friends or some other similarly sized house) it would be such a breeze to organize and pack all this stuff. Instead, I'm just dreading every minute of it and procrastinating.
The good thing is...everyone is healthy, we aren't losing our home, nice tenants are moving in, we are going to see lots of family in the coming weeks, and so on...but still it's hard for me now to be packing with no destination, and it's going to be hard for the kids to leave and not have a place to call "home" for a couple months while we continue to look for another one.
We have rented our house out (it didn't sell) and we have what I would consider to be a decent amount of credit to purchase a 4 BR home. Prices here are high, and volume is loooow. We couldn't get the first house because the seller only wants full-price or nothing (after being on the market a year) and the second home, although it has its weirdness, would work beautifully for our family for the years to come. However, the builder/renovator of the 2nd home seemed like he (well through his nice realtor wife) would work with us to make it fit within our budget. They just said "nope, our price" and we can't make it there and still feed our kids. There's just a $10K difference between our price and theirs.
So now we're packing up, moving furniture into a POD, clothing, toys, cooking stuff, medicines, etc. into a storage unit so we can access them during the summer, and living "on the road" at the ILs' beach house, my mom's, a friend's condo, etc. until we can find a place. We HAVE a place (rather places) to stay during the transition time, but we would really like to know (please Lord, sooner than later) where we will be landing. It's gross to pull stuff down out of our attic, try to shuffle it around, try to still live here in the meantime, and figure out which direction everything needs to be going. I know that if I had a destination (aka nice new house in a fun neighborhood where DC and DH and I have friends or some other similarly sized house) it would be such a breeze to organize and pack all this stuff. Instead, I'm just dreading every minute of it and procrastinating.
The good thing is...everyone is healthy, we aren't losing our home, nice tenants are moving in, we are going to see lots of family in the coming weeks, and so on...but still it's hard for me now to be packing with no destination, and it's going to be hard for the kids to leave and not have a place to call "home" for a couple months while we continue to look for another one.