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After all those dreams of having to move this winter, is it any wonder I'm actually starting to contemplate doing so?
I still love this house, but I am getting restless for a home that includes my horse. I have this dream of a place on about five or so acres, sufficient for up to three horses comfortably with more undeveloped for trails, or even just three acres on slow country road safe to go for a hack down. A modest home with a four stall barn, perhaps. Close enough for groceries and internet connection to not be problematic, but country enough to not see a car every minute. You get the idea, I'm sure.
I want some chickens too, dammit.
I want to be able to jog down the road for a couple miles and not have to keep the dogs leashed because it's just not that busy a road and the neighbors aren't right up on it.
I don't need 20 acres or anything grand, but I want to be in control of my horses nutrition and care, not watch his weight slowly decline until I have to beg to get him on a supplement because the barn manager just doesn't think he needs more grain. If it means early mornings feeding and late nights running out to get them in from a sudden storm, so be it. I want Hubby on property where I eat, live and sleep. I can get him a pasture mate or two, especially if they're easy keepers and I have the pasture to support them. I learned a lot more than I realized from Laura in the Atlanta area. I am quite capable of managing to care for him on my own.
The hard part is finding such a place and getting this one sold with the timing going right to use this house equity for it. I've got ten years paid on this house, always a bit over the principal. That means it's more than 1/3 paid. Surely that can leverage me into what I want without breaking my paycheck, right?
I shall mull on this probably for a few more months. I'd say it's been there for a few leading up to accepting that this is something I want. Now I have to start considering how to make it happen. What to do to make this house more marketable and desireable so it leverages more for me. Also, I have to contemplate and reconcile with yet another move after so much turmoil over the past few years. I dont' want to move hastily. I've had enough of hasty moves.
So, your comments are of course welcome, but dont' be surprised if nothing happens for another couple years while I get myself in order.
I still love this house, but I am getting restless for a home that includes my horse. I have this dream of a place on about five or so acres, sufficient for up to three horses comfortably with more undeveloped for trails, or even just three acres on slow country road safe to go for a hack down. A modest home with a four stall barn, perhaps. Close enough for groceries and internet connection to not be problematic, but country enough to not see a car every minute. You get the idea, I'm sure.
I want some chickens too, dammit.
I want to be able to jog down the road for a couple miles and not have to keep the dogs leashed because it's just not that busy a road and the neighbors aren't right up on it.
I don't need 20 acres or anything grand, but I want to be in control of my horses nutrition and care, not watch his weight slowly decline until I have to beg to get him on a supplement because the barn manager just doesn't think he needs more grain. If it means early mornings feeding and late nights running out to get them in from a sudden storm, so be it. I want Hubby on property where I eat, live and sleep. I can get him a pasture mate or two, especially if they're easy keepers and I have the pasture to support them. I learned a lot more than I realized from Laura in the Atlanta area. I am quite capable of managing to care for him on my own.
The hard part is finding such a place and getting this one sold with the timing going right to use this house equity for it. I've got ten years paid on this house, always a bit over the principal. That means it's more than 1/3 paid. Surely that can leverage me into what I want without breaking my paycheck, right?
I shall mull on this probably for a few more months. I'd say it's been there for a few leading up to accepting that this is something I want. Now I have to start considering how to make it happen. What to do to make this house more marketable and desireable so it leverages more for me. Also, I have to contemplate and reconcile with yet another move after so much turmoil over the past few years. I dont' want to move hastily. I've had enough of hasty moves.
So, your comments are of course welcome, but dont' be surprised if nothing happens for another couple years while I get myself in order.