Well, our old house has been on the market for over 6 months now with no serious action or interest. We need to make a decision soon as we can't continue paying two exorbitant mortgages indefinitely. In fact, we've had to look at all of our options including: trying to rent the old place out (the problem is that we would only be able to collect 1/2 the amount of the mortgage payment in rent), foreclosure, and now putting the new place up on the market to see what happens.
I truly don't want to pack up and move again. This new place is our dream home. But the dream is not going as we had planned/hoped. We expected that we would sell the other home with relative ease (it's a great house) and that we would have approximately the same mortgage for so much more home. It's not looking like that will be the case anymore, though, as we've had to lower the price of the old place about $50K over the course of these months.
I feel a pretty defeated over this situation. We knew that we were making a risky financial move, but really prayed about it and researched it beforehand and felt led to go through with it. We are now trying to sort out what God's plan is in this situation. What is He trying to teach us? Did we make this move out of His will? Did He want us to move only to bring us back a few months later?
So, we don't know where we will be living in the upcoming months. Stay tuned for an update or perhaps a change of address and prayerfully it won't be to a box somewhere down by the railroad tracks (or van down by the river).
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The bad news is that in the old place we won't have space for a home gym, a separate office, or for a guest to have their own room when they visit.
The good news is that by living in the old place again we'll probably be able to afford a gym membership, nicer computer equipment (a 19+" LCD finally?) and be able to afford taking trips to go visit other people more.
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