It's been a while since my last post. We have been busy around here. First of all, I work downtown now - remember, I got a job at the first of this year. I work downtown so it takes me sometimes nearly an hour just to GET HOME....
Now, would you believe we had to have MORE home repairs done? Yep....more repairs. Pretty soon we will have repaired everything and it will be basically a new house! Don't I wish?
Anyway, we are thinking of putting the house on the market; before that happens we need to make sure it's in good shape. We decided to get a home inspection done. Now, that cost us a couple pesos, but we found that we had wood rot near the eaves, we need gutters, had to get a sill/main beam replaced underneath the house because it had deteriorated....BECAUSE OF WATER! Damn water. It seems that every repair we had to make was caused by damage done by water!!! Oh, and we also have to get one corner of the house 'jacked up'....the foundation is settling and the bricks have cracked.
All in all, we'd rather know these things needed repairing BEFORE a buyer comes along with their realtor and they want all this done right now.....OR don't want to pay the price we hope to get for the house.
One thing is a little scary, though - right now I have a great job. Suppose the house sells, and we decide to move to New England. Think anyone wants to hire a 50-something woman? Or the woman's husband? I sure don't want to end up living in a cardboard box.....
On the other hand, I just want to move elsewhere. Don't want to stay here any more. I think change is what I need. a change of scenery....and a change of heart.
Do we have the guts to do it???? And walk away from everyone (including my sons) and everything we hold dear????
Would YOU risk everything to be somewhere your heart tells you is where you belong, or do you follow the 'safe' route and just stay where you've always stayed....and always long to be somewhere else?
