…Aka walking away from more money than I ever imagined…
I am moving to Tampa in August… but … not really. And Sean and I are splitting up. The cat & dog are splitting up too! Don’t get excited!!! Read the whole story!
Full story:
We put our house on the market. Painted, cleaned, scrubbed, put stuff in storage, all the things!
2 1/2 months, we didn’t get any offers.
Came up with a plan B for supporting Peter going back to college, weighing options and expenses.
Then we got a nice offer on the house this week (tho’ under asking). OMG!!!! Time to sell or get off the pot!
We got off the pot. We are not selling the house (yet). Plan B is more flexible, financially sound plan.
So! Son Peter and I and the cat are moving. short term, to a condo we already own near his college.
It’s so obvious, why didn’t we think of this 4 months ago? Oh yeah, we had tenants 4 months ago. Plan B wasn’t an option originally.
I have a little whiplash from all this, but it’s nice to not make a full move yet.
So yeah, my husband and I are splitting up short term, for the kiddo. It is the best plan for our son which is our goal as a team. Parenting is hard. Parenting special needs is harder. Luckily, the three of us make a good team.
So I get to support Peter in his new college adventure, as well as explore a new city, shake things up a bit in my life, and fix up the condo in Tampa. Sean gets a lot of time for his writing. But also, we still have the same home to come home to. No matter how Peter fares at college, we’ll have his back, one way or another.
And not making big financial moves (yet?) means more travel! We already have plans for winter break!
Sean and I still intend to move out of Palm Beach County some day … maybe in the next year. We first have to make serious decisions about *where* we want to be for the next stage of our lives.
ANOTHER VERSION: I wrote this to Kamas:
Peter’s classes start Aug 25.
We got an offer in the house… and then turned it down!!!! Because we realized it’d be easier, cheaper, less stressful to keep this house, and Peter and I go live semester to semester in the condo that we already own in Tampa. Nora was living in it until a couple months ago, so this wasn’t an option when we started this drama.
Key: This plan will be less pressure for all of us if Peter doesn’t finish college.
But also… Sean and I weren’t/aren’t real sure what we were doing the *following* year. The plan had been: sell & rent in Tampa, then… buy … somewhere? Maybe Tampa? Maybe Winter Haven? Maybe Canada?! We don’t really know! Probably it’ll be near Nora (ergo, Winter Haven-ish area), but there’s a lot could change in her life still… she’s job hunting still and her father in law is dying.
We hope we don’t regret not selling now. The offer we got was pretty nice (though below asking price). The economy still has potential to become even more chaotic… Sean and I have said all along:,worst case scenario we stay in a house we know and near people we like and trust!
So Peter and I are moving temporarily to Tampa on Sat Aug 16. Just decided the date today. Skitty is moving with us. Luna stays here with Sean. It’ll be interesting to see how the animals cope.
And we’ll all see each other about every two weeks, we’ve figured out.
Meanwhile our house looks AMAZING which is nice. And we’re getting a few more things fixed that would’ve come up in inspection — like a broken window. So we plan to re-visit whether to sell in January and in May… a lot depends on how Peter is doing in college and where Nora is settling.
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