I'm Really Ready To Be Stress Free!!

[Janet]

Gayle...I admire you advice....no matter what the subject. We've thought the same thing. I just can't paint anymore. Climbing up and down ladders just kills my knees and then I ache for days. So I'm pretty sure if she really wants to buy...we'll sell. If not...we'll just keep it for a while.

[gja1000]

Janet, now that Gary can't help me with any kind of physical labor activity around the house, I've come to the conclusion, that while I can do some things, I really don't want to, nor do I want to risk injury in the process of trying to do them. Last year I injured the rotator cuff in my shoulder from dragging limb and rose bush trimmings from the back yard to the front to be loaded on a trailer and hauled off (we hauled them off, so then I had to pull them out of the trailer at the recycle center). I had to go to therapy for 3 months to repair my shoulder, at some expense because my insurance co didn't pay 100% and now my shoulder is OK, but will never be the same and I find I have to be very careful with it.

The point is that we need to stay active and engaged as we grow older, but hauling limbs, climbing ladders, and the like is probably not the best way to do it. If the sale happens, yay, if not, then it will happen later, I'm sure.

[Janet]

So true Gayle. My husband thinks the lady interested in buying the house is just blowing wind....lol. Says she likes to hear herself talk. So we'll probably be keeping it for awhile yet. We have another person interested in the house too. Now we'll have to choose. I checked them both out and they are both responsible....so I don't know. I'm sure we'll talk about it this evening and try to come to some kind of decision.

[DianaB]

Janet, I think that having rentals is a wonderful idea. My Mom and Dad had a lot of rentals when I was growning up. They would buy small and inexpensive homes, fix them up a little, and rent them out for enough that the rent covered their payments. I know that back then they tried to have the houses paid for in two or three years (this was in the 70's)because the sooner you can get them paid off the sooner you can make money. I will admit that they did rent to people who weren't the best and Dad always had to go and find them to collect rent but they did make money. You have to be able to do your own maintenance work if you have a lot of houses otherwise repairs can take a big cut in your profits.