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The property my sisters and I live in is being sold. I've mentioned this before, specifically in terms of my youngest sister B2.
However, we thought we'd have a year or so to get used to the idea, to explore our options.
They want to exchange at the end of December. Which gives us six weeks of settlement, and then a contractual 3 months-ish of time in which we can continue to inhabit the house. Then we're out.
So we're looking at the end of March for a move. For a complete change in the way we've been living our lives for the last 10 years - it's been that long since the parentals got married!
I thought I'd have a year or so to get my unit cleaned up and sold (I own a unit in a suburb out in Sydney's west) sort things out with the twins, purchase somewhere else. Instead I have three months. While on a fairly major project.
ARGH. BIG ARGHS.
I'll cope, of course. It's not like I have a choice, exactly - and it will provide some opportunities for cleaning up and sorting through. Which should have been done more than ten years ago but...eh. This is me.
Anyway, I have to start looking at property prices regarding the sale of my unit. I have to work out how much I still owe on that mortgage. I have to consider what I want to do in the next year, two years, five years, ten. Big changes. BIIIIIG.
And, as big changes are, a little scary.
The situation with the sisters is still unresolved. (The probability of B2 trying to live off B1 and myself for the rest of her life.) We need to sit down to have a conversation with mum and another mediator (a family friend who knows us and who we all trust) to talk our options - financial, personal, emotional - through.
In the short-term - 18mths, B1 and I are contemplating moving into separate, one-room dwellings. Time, space, and no way for B2 to live off us. She'll have to cope on her own.
It would also give the market time to cool down because it's really heating up. I bought at the height of a really big boom last time, I'd like to wait until the market steadies a bit before buying this time - whatever it is.
Also, I'm on this project in Rhodes for the next six months, assuming I don't screw anything up. Right now it takes me three trains and 44 mins to get to work. I can cut this down by temporarily renting somewhere closer to Rhodes and saving time and money on transport. Epping, perhaps?
I think B1 is amenable to living by herself for a while (read: without B2), the interesting question is what B2 is going to think about all this. And, if she realises that neither I nor B1 are going to fall in with her plansto live off us for the rest of her life then what's she going to do?
Ideally, we'd all live out of home for 18 months while the money from the sale of our house goes into a term deposit for 18 months (the parental stipulation for our being allowed to use it) and then, B2 having learned that life is not about freeloading off her sisters and become a member of productive society, we'd all buy a nice house and live there until we're crabby old ladies with a ridiculous number of cats. Seeing as there are no men on any of our horizons. :)
Ideally. :)
Thinky things.
However, we thought we'd have a year or so to get used to the idea, to explore our options.
They want to exchange at the end of December. Which gives us six weeks of settlement, and then a contractual 3 months-ish of time in which we can continue to inhabit the house. Then we're out.
So we're looking at the end of March for a move. For a complete change in the way we've been living our lives for the last 10 years - it's been that long since the parentals got married!
I thought I'd have a year or so to get my unit cleaned up and sold (I own a unit in a suburb out in Sydney's west) sort things out with the twins, purchase somewhere else. Instead I have three months. While on a fairly major project.
ARGH. BIG ARGHS.
I'll cope, of course. It's not like I have a choice, exactly - and it will provide some opportunities for cleaning up and sorting through. Which should have been done more than ten years ago but...eh. This is me.
Anyway, I have to start looking at property prices regarding the sale of my unit. I have to work out how much I still owe on that mortgage. I have to consider what I want to do in the next year, two years, five years, ten. Big changes. BIIIIIG.
And, as big changes are, a little scary.
The situation with the sisters is still unresolved. (The probability of B2 trying to live off B1 and myself for the rest of her life.) We need to sit down to have a conversation with mum and another mediator (a family friend who knows us and who we all trust) to talk our options - financial, personal, emotional - through.
In the short-term - 18mths, B1 and I are contemplating moving into separate, one-room dwellings. Time, space, and no way for B2 to live off us. She'll have to cope on her own.
It would also give the market time to cool down because it's really heating up. I bought at the height of a really big boom last time, I'd like to wait until the market steadies a bit before buying this time - whatever it is.
Also, I'm on this project in Rhodes for the next six months, assuming I don't screw anything up. Right now it takes me three trains and 44 mins to get to work. I can cut this down by temporarily renting somewhere closer to Rhodes and saving time and money on transport. Epping, perhaps?
I think B1 is amenable to living by herself for a while (read: without B2), the interesting question is what B2 is going to think about all this. And, if she realises that neither I nor B1 are going to fall in with her plans
Ideally, we'd all live out of home for 18 months while the money from the sale of our house goes into a term deposit for 18 months (the parental stipulation for our being allowed to use it) and then, B2 having learned that life is not about freeloading off her sisters and become a member of productive society, we'd all buy a nice house and live there until we're crabby old ladies with a ridiculous number of cats. Seeing as there are no men on any of our horizons. :)
Ideally. :)
Thinky things.
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