Last weekend, on a whim, we decided to have a realtor come and look at our house and give us an honest appraisal on how much we could get from it. She would have all the knowledge on our neighborhood, the pulse of the market, the sale-ability of an older, classy house such as this one.
We bought this house in 2004 and a few years later the economy crashed and the value of this house took a nose dive and has been coming back ever so slowly. We don't owe a huge amount but enough to wonder if we would be able to make enough from the sale to put down on another place.
In the mix of all this wondering - we debated and discussed what our next move would be. We really want to get to a warmer climate and perhaps even closer to our daughter out in California. But then we have a daughter in Michigan and don't want to get too far from her and then there's the one in The Netherlands with our 2 grandsons that we want to be closer to.
We have decided that we're going to be around here for at least another 5ish years - so that helped us to make the choice for downsizing. This house is just too big any more for us to want to manage. And, since our kids are no longer in this area close to us - we decided it would be nice to move closer to Goshen, where I work and can bike in more often and closer to my siblings so we don't feel quite so isolated.
One week later, we already looked at a house and practically fell in love with it. It is so very small, less than 1000 sq feet....hahahaha. Basically it's the size of our main living area in this house. We have put an offer down contingent on the sale of our house because we still have work to do here to be able to put it on the market. This weekend.....Steve has already gutted the downstairs bathroom (which he intended to do anyway). I have begun the downsizing process of all my dishes and knick-knacks and odds and ends that are just taking up space. It's rather overwhelming to think of all the stuff that we have on 4 levels now and compressing all that to one main level. The little house has a pull down ladder to an attic, a crawl space and a one car garage. So not a whole lot of place to put things for storage. Steve and I will have to get used to not having a lot of space between us. We shall see how that works - it works for camping but not sure about day in and day out. 😜But this little place is in a great location and has lots of potential. It is move in ready with some work to do on the outside but that can be done as we go along. I don't want to share the link because I don't want anyone to buy it out from us. hehehe
We are on the move..............well at least the beginning of a move. I'm excited, a tad bit overwhelmed but more excited. I'm already picturing us being there - where our stuff will go - what I'm going to take there with us. I'm talking as if it's already ours......But that's just how I roll - always on to the next thing.
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