Week Bye Week

We were so close! But like NASA liftoff countdowns, issues sometimes come up at the last second and the countdown has to be halted.

So, what’s the issue?

The issue is that the market is not currently aligned with the value we have assigned to this house. At all. It’s about a 20% difference in what the comps in the area show versus what we are willing to part with this house for.

So…yeah.

What next? Good question. We knew this may be an issue. We talked about it all the way back in week 118, and several times over the years. This plan was never set in stone. We always knew we would need to be flexible, and especially as we got toward the end and had less runway to work with.

Part of the reason we haven’t posted in the last few weeks is that we’ve been trying to figure out our next steps. We’ll be honest, when we realized that we weren’t putting the house on the market, we were not sad about it. We were actually happy. We get to enjoy all of the work we’ve put into the house, at least for a while.

But this will delay our travel plans a bit. We don’t want to pay monthly rent for a house on the ocean while also paying the monthly mortgage for current house, so we’ll need to compromise and be patient. Someone once said, adulting is the ability to delay gratification (or something like that). So, we’re officially adults, y’all!

Where to go from here

We will continue posting, sometimes weekly, sometimes not. We’ll post when we have something to write about. Right now, we have ideas so you may hear from us again soon (the kid graduates in mere weeks!), but we don’t want to commit to a schedule.

We’re glad you are still along for the ride, whatever that may look like from here.