I can't make a decision!
Aug. 16th, 2006 06:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
voxwomanSo, the house I loved at first sight is under contract to another family. The deal could still fall through, giving us another shot at it, but I don't get that kind of luck, usually. The rest of the houses on the market in the area are just pants in comparison. I knew the only way I'd leave the Maple Ave house was feet first (or dragged kicking and screaming by the kid into a nursing home or somesuch). Maybe my destiny is not in Rahway.
But that leaves me with a decision - do I sell this house NOW? Do I wait until the spring (and possibly the fall of the housing market as well)? Do I stay until the kid gets out of high school and move out of the neighborhood for a more open, woodsy and cheaper area? One where I don't have to give a crap about the school system because I won't have any kids in it?
I can't seem to motivate myself to start packing up the "clutter" and doing all the work (painting! Yuck!) that I'd have to do to get this house ready. I really need the "Designed to Sell" crew to come in here and motivate me. The fact that I can't motivate myself is speaking to me. And it is casting doubt on my plans to sell and move. I think if I had a place to move TO, I'd be motivated as all hell. But since I don't have a place to move to, I'm finding it very hard to want to sell this place. I don't want to "settle" for something (because that's what I did in the house I'm in now - I promised myself we'd be out of here within 5 years, and we're looking at our 10th anniversary in this house in a month).
There is a sad looking ranch house on a huge lot (almost 1/2 acre - yes that's a huge lot for this area) on the "good" street in town (the street where the mayor lives), and it's asking price is not much more than what I'd get for this place - which means we'd have enough money to raise the roof and add a second floor - or even tear the sucker down and put in a nice fancy 3500 square foot modular home. I'll probably look at it tomorrow.
the house Rich grew up in is also back on the market. We can't find the listing for it, so I'm suspicious that the new owners turned it into a 2-family home. It would be really weird to buy that house back, but I know it's big enough, and I know exactly what needs to be done to make it "mine". Too bad we couldn't have figured this out a year or so ago, and just bought the damned house from his parents.
I detest filp flopping on this. And this indecision is driving me NUTS.
But that leaves me with a decision - do I sell this house NOW? Do I wait until the spring (and possibly the fall of the housing market as well)? Do I stay until the kid gets out of high school and move out of the neighborhood for a more open, woodsy and cheaper area? One where I don't have to give a crap about the school system because I won't have any kids in it?
I can't seem to motivate myself to start packing up the "clutter" and doing all the work (painting! Yuck!) that I'd have to do to get this house ready. I really need the "Designed to Sell" crew to come in here and motivate me. The fact that I can't motivate myself is speaking to me. And it is casting doubt on my plans to sell and move. I think if I had a place to move TO, I'd be motivated as all hell. But since I don't have a place to move to, I'm finding it very hard to want to sell this place. I don't want to "settle" for something (because that's what I did in the house I'm in now - I promised myself we'd be out of here within 5 years, and we're looking at our 10th anniversary in this house in a month).
There is a sad looking ranch house on a huge lot (almost 1/2 acre - yes that's a huge lot for this area) on the "good" street in town (the street where the mayor lives), and it's asking price is not much more than what I'd get for this place - which means we'd have enough money to raise the roof and add a second floor - or even tear the sucker down and put in a nice fancy 3500 square foot modular home. I'll probably look at it tomorrow.
the house Rich grew up in is also back on the market. We can't find the listing for it, so I'm suspicious that the new owners turned it into a 2-family home. It would be really weird to buy that house back, but I know it's big enough, and I know exactly what needs to be done to make it "mine". Too bad we couldn't have figured this out a year or so ago, and just bought the damned house from his parents.
I detest filp flopping on this. And this indecision is driving me NUTS.
Re: I think you answered your own question.
Date: 2006-08-16 10:58 pm (UTC)Re: I think you answered your own question.
Date: 2006-08-18 12:19 pm (UTC)But finding a Victorian that hasn't been converted into apartments over the past 100 years is rare in this city, anyway. (And I will give you that many of the houses were built as rooming houses; I know of 2 specifically built to house nurses for the hospital during the Civil War. This city's been in existence since the 1700 - there's a "Washington Slept Here" house on the main street through town.