DH and I are currently living with my family. It's a pretty tight squeeze, but compared to what conditions we could be facing (homeless, in shelter(s) ) it's good. There are 9 of us living in a technically 3 bedroom house. My parents have one bedroom, my sister has one bedroom, my brother has the other bedroom, and my older sister has the back room that was added on to be a great room, then the 4 of us (DH, DD, DS, and I) are sleeping in a kind of hallway/passageway that was closed off. Not the best, but like I said, better than what our other option was. I got word from someone I know that someone is selling a single wide. It's in very good condition (from what the owner said, we're going to go look at it this afternoon), he put in new tiling in the kitchen and bathroom last year, painted, carpets, everything. I've seen the outside and some pictures of the inside, and so far, it looks very nice. Like I said, we haven't actually looked at the inside, so who knows, but the guy just moved out a few months ago (got married and moved into the girl's house), so it probably can't be *too* terrible. He's asking $1000. He just wants to drop the lot fee payment. Assuming it's in the condition he said it's in, I think it's an awesome opportunity. Obviously not something for long term, necessarily, but a slight step up from what we have now (living with family, who more or less disagree with me/us on everything about parenting, and let me/us know so...) The lot fees are only $240/month, so even if we add the purchase of the trailer to that, and divide it up against the lot fees for a year, that only makes it $340/month, about. It's 2 bedroom, 1 bath, and in looking, I haven't even found an apartment that is that cheap. We can have our dog there, and in most apartments I've found, we couldn't have our dog. We'd have a yard, which we wouldn't have in an apartment. It's a *very* quiet park, even when there were probably a dozen kids out, they weren't screaming/yelling/being loud, they were playing nicely. It's here in town, which is what DH and I want to be able to stay here. I think it's a pretty good deal, if it's in the condition he says it is. I think, even if we buy it, and it turns out we *don't* like it, it might be fairly easy to sell it, even at a bit of a loss (which wouldn't probably be much, considering it's $1000 we would pay for it, and we'd get a bit of use out of it.), and it wouldn't hurt us too badly. We'd probably pay $1000 in a few months in rent anywhere else. DH, who admittedly has a slight fear of commitment, doesn't like the idea of us owning our own place yet, I think it's not terrible.
What do y'all think? I'm *so* ready to be moved out of here... I love my family and all, but I don't need them telling me how my "crazy" (non-mainstream) ideas of parenting are wrong, and disciplining DD differently than I'm comfortable with.
What do y'all think? I'm *so* ready to be moved out of here... I love my family and all, but I don't need them telling me how my "crazy" (non-mainstream) ideas of parenting are wrong, and disciplining DD differently than I'm comfortable with.
