The Move
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:50 am
I talked about this a little in the "shop" thread, but now it looks like it's official that we will be moving and taking over my daughter's house.
I have no idea where everything's going to go and on top of all the work of moving I'll have a ton of work cut out for me, but by the time I get done when the housing market starts to bounce back the house should be worth a lot more.
It still won't be till probably March when we're moved in since my daughter and her fiance' still have to find a place to move (somewhere halfway between here and Detroit as that's where he works and she will too as of Feb. 20th)... So they're starting the house hunting now and hope to be moved in by the 20th.
We still have to give our landlord 30 days notice also so we'll probably do that on Feb. 20th as well (20th of every month is when our rent is due).
The upside: We will finally be buying a home and since we're doing an owner financed contract with our daughter we'll only be paying her what she just refinanced for last month and her's is a fixed 5.5% rate with payments including taxes and insurance. So we'll be saving on what we currently pay for rent (payments a lil less), but also save on gas, electric, and water (she pays about half of what we do for all these. Plus the taxes include trash pickup, so we save not having to have our own service.
The downside: I will miss having property and privacy... Our last house was on over an acre and our current rental place is on over 4 and we're moving into Toledo to a 1/4 acre lot with neighbors all around (Nice neighbors, but I'll always be afraid I'm bothering someone).
The other major drawback is the downsizing of the garage from the 2 story beast I have now to a 2.5 car. It does have a screened in bump out on the side which I already told my with I was going to enclose to give me tool space, but I think I'll still have to add on.
The other minor drawback is that we will have our oldest daughter living with us. She lives there currently and doesn't have the funds to move out on her own, so she'll continue to stay there with us... Don't get me wrong I love my kids and would do anything for them... I just really never thought I'd have an adult child back at home with us.
Other than that like I said, I will have a ton of work cut out for me... Here's the short list so far:
-Put up privacy fence for dogs
-Put in half bath in basement
-Finish basement (waterproofed last year)
-Buy and put in new dishwasher
-Buy and install new garbage disposal
-Replace kitchen sink (already have new one to put in)
-Enclose garage and front porch
-Build shed
I know there will be more to add to that list, but those are all the ASAP things.
I have no idea where everything's going to go and on top of all the work of moving I'll have a ton of work cut out for me, but by the time I get done when the housing market starts to bounce back the house should be worth a lot more.
It still won't be till probably March when we're moved in since my daughter and her fiance' still have to find a place to move (somewhere halfway between here and Detroit as that's where he works and she will too as of Feb. 20th)... So they're starting the house hunting now and hope to be moved in by the 20th.
We still have to give our landlord 30 days notice also so we'll probably do that on Feb. 20th as well (20th of every month is when our rent is due).
The upside: We will finally be buying a home and since we're doing an owner financed contract with our daughter we'll only be paying her what she just refinanced for last month and her's is a fixed 5.5% rate with payments including taxes and insurance. So we'll be saving on what we currently pay for rent (payments a lil less), but also save on gas, electric, and water (she pays about half of what we do for all these. Plus the taxes include trash pickup, so we save not having to have our own service.
The downside: I will miss having property and privacy... Our last house was on over an acre and our current rental place is on over 4 and we're moving into Toledo to a 1/4 acre lot with neighbors all around (Nice neighbors, but I'll always be afraid I'm bothering someone).
The other major drawback is the downsizing of the garage from the 2 story beast I have now to a 2.5 car. It does have a screened in bump out on the side which I already told my with I was going to enclose to give me tool space, but I think I'll still have to add on.
The other minor drawback is that we will have our oldest daughter living with us. She lives there currently and doesn't have the funds to move out on her own, so she'll continue to stay there with us... Don't get me wrong I love my kids and would do anything for them... I just really never thought I'd have an adult child back at home with us.
Other than that like I said, I will have a ton of work cut out for me... Here's the short list so far:
-Put up privacy fence for dogs
-Put in half bath in basement
-Finish basement (waterproofed last year)
-Buy and put in new dishwasher
-Buy and install new garbage disposal
-Replace kitchen sink (already have new one to put in)
-Enclose garage and front porch
-Build shed
I know there will be more to add to that list, but those are all the ASAP things.
lol
but there's always time for more down the road and it's soooo worth it to get out from under the landlord she bitch from hell that doesn't want to drop a dime into this place.