I’ve been trying to talk hubby into building a house for many years now with no luck. He was so against it from day one that I finally gave up and accepted it as it was.
Now….(that I have resigned myself to dying in the house we’re in) he has decided that we need a bigger house. He says that the house is too small for five people and even though the kids won't be living at home forever, they will come back occasionally and bring more people with them when they come.
That is one of the points I tried to make years ago when trying to talk him into a bigger house. I absolutely LOVE when I'm right
Anyway.....now that the decision has been made to do something different, we’ve been trying to figure out what is going to work the best for us. Whatever we end up doing, we know it will be at least two years before anything is done but I figure this is good because that gives us two years to battle out the differences in what we want and get our ducks in a row, so to speak.
We’ve pretty much figured that building is the only way we’re going to get exactly what we want in a house but we're not sure if that's the route we want to take.
Our options seem to keep multiplying and giving us more to think about

. As we see them, they are............build on the land that we have now..........sell what we have and buy another piece of property with a house on it..........keep what we have now and buy a new piece of land with a house and rent out the old house...........or add on to the house that we’re in now.
The addition to the existing house seems to be one of the easiest ways to go but it could end up costing us just as much money to get it like we want it as it would cost to build a new house so if this is the case……I take new over old.
The idea of buying a new place and renting out the one we have is also tempting for the extra income but right now this is the last option on our list because we’re not sure we really want to go into the headaches of the rental business. This is still way up in the air but not ruled out.
Selling what we have and putting that money towards another piece of property with a house already on it would able us to get more for our money if we play our cards right but this would only work with the right timing. Right house at the right price at the right time. Like now, there is a house that seems right for us on a different piece of property, for a good price, but we’re not in the position to do so right now.
I think when it comes down to it, even though we’re toying with these different possibilities, we’ll most likely build where we are or build elsewhere (I think we’re both ready to move away from where we are). We’re both pretty specific about certain things that we want in the house and how we want it and unless one hell of a deal comes along at the right time, then to get what we want, we’re going to have to build our own.
Now, if we could only agree on the size of the house and where to build it, we’d be doing good.