I live, write, and garden in the PNW with my husband of 27 years, disabled daughter, college-aged son, and my 84-year-old mother. We have paid off $250,000.00 worth of debt (if you include the interest) in the last fifteen years and as of 6/12/2020 are 100% DEBT FREE!!!!So after my little talk with DH of him showing me places we can't afford when something new comes up on the housing market, today he showed me something that we can afford...
It's further out than I want, it's painted an ugly color (dark brown with lemon yellow trim) and has awful panelling in the living room and bonus room, and slightly better panelling in a bedroom. But it is over 1700 square feet, has a wood stove, a propane stove, and electric, so you can choose what you want to heat with.
But...but it has a huge barn, a huge shop, a huge garage, a green house, cold frames, mature fruit trees, a garden, a large pond (as in swimming hole size, not something you make from the big box store, you can take a row boat out on it) and it is 20 acres. Half wooded, half pasture. And the land is beautiful. Utterly gorgeous. It's idyllic. I can't think of anything more I want in the land. And the property tax is under $2000 a year. Asking price? $305,000.
Gah.
As DH says, a house is a house. We can paint. We can take off the panelling. We can find a pretty house anywhere. We can't find pretty land anywhere.
Maybe I just need him to stop showing me anything for a while.
The remodelers are supposed to be done today, but they haven't called to say so yet. Same old, same old, I suppose.
Oh, Dear
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Let's just say it's where I'm sitting right now, and although it didn't seem like the right time or the right move at the time, we don't regret it, and haven't seen anything we've liked half as much since.
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Rob--Well, I'd prefer not to, but with something this lovely otherwise, I'd probably be willing to. Did I mention that the walls that are not panelling are painted mint green? It's be like living in a giant cookie! LOL Well, and the one bedroom had an accent wall that was orange. I don't even...
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