{"id":33131,"date":"2013-04-11T21:42:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T03:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/11\/house-hunting.html"},"modified":"2013-04-12T06:25:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T12:25:33","slug":"house-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/11\/house-hunting.html","title":{"rendered":"House Hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"
It's been interesting helping our friend Jackie find a new house (something we've had a motivation to do, as she's been staying with us since her own house sold 24 hours after going on the market).<\/p>\n

Looking at various places has made me think of how we could look for a new house, something bigger, better suited to our lifestyles, more open, more full of\u00a0amenities, different. \u00a0We've seen a lot of interesting places, and as our budget would be bigger than Jackie's, presumably we would be looking at bigger and more interesting places.<\/p>\n

Yes, there's a wee bit of new house jealousy there.<\/p>\n

But, on the other hand, there's a lot of down sides to the whole adventure. \u00a0Every place we've looked at has been a compromise in one way or another. Features vs. location vs. price vs. storage vs. layout vs. neighborhood vs. … it goes on and on. And that's assuming you can actually get one of the places you want — Jackie's experience with places being under contract even before she could get home or her real estate agent could run the comps have been endlessly frustrating. \u00a0<\/p>\n

And then there are all the frustrations and stress of the actual loan approval \/ purchase \/ insurance \/ utilities folderol to go through.<\/p>\n

Not to mention packing, moving companies, storage, unloading, unpacking, and years of slowly fitting into the place, to make it home.<\/i><\/p>\n

We have a great house. We could have something bigger, shinier, more modern, etc. — but the incremental cost of doing so, as well as the addition of a newer, bigger, almost certainly less-favorable mortgage than what we have at the moment, means it just doesn't make any sense. \u00a0In fact, it makes the opposite of sense. And we have no compelling reason to do so, and every reason to adapt what we have — and to what we have — instead.<\/p>\n

I think we'll stick with what we have, until such time as we have<\/i> to move. Even if it's been fun to help, indirectly, someone else look for a place.<\/div>\n

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It's been interesting helping our friend Jackie find a new house (something we've had a motivation to do, as she's been staying with us since her own house sold 24 hours after going on the market). 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