I Hate Moving

There is seriously nothing worse than having to move homes. Granted, I don’t think there is a single person on this entire planet that enjoys moving, but I particularly have a deep-seeded hatred for anything that resembles moving. From the whole process of finding a realtor, listing a home, and selling it, to the pain-staking process of researching homes and buying one, to the never-ending packing and moving process, I seriously hate it all. However, the housing market is too hot right now to not make some serious plays with my home. If you are unaware of what is going on in the housing market right now, let me just enlighten you a little bit about the current events of our market. First of all, you need to know that houses are selling like hot cakes out here. Seriously - the last time we were seeing prices for homes like this was before the big crash in 2008 (which sounds a little problematic if you ask me). So me and my wife live in our own home that we bought several years ago now. We like it there, but it is old and has quite a few problems that we haven’t gotten around to fixing; most notably, it is in need of a new roof and several heating/cooling upgrades and fixes. Either way, my wife and I have both agreed that these are problems we do not want to deal with.

So after some long conversations and discussions about this big decision, my wife and I decided to sell our house as is and live in a smaller scale apartment for a couple years until the housing market is down. The reason for this is because, since we are eventually going to want to upgrade to a bigger house anyways, it makes a lot of sense to sell the house right now. After all, we can seriously make so much money off selling the house, and get back over 100 percent of what we put into it.

Now that’s a deal! I don’t really love living in apartments at this age of my life, but we can find and afford a nice place to live that will at least be manageable for a couple years until we decide to move on. Right now we are leaning towards building our own house, but we are still waiting to see how the market is going to look in a couple years after we sell our current house. The best part about selling the house ‘as is’ is that we don’t have to do any extra work to it whatsoever - this is super beneficial and is something that you could not normally get a lot of money for unless you are selling in such a hot market like we are currently seeing.

That all being said, it is true that I absolutely hate the process of moving. We have already ordered lots of moving supplies, and started saving shipping supplies that we get in the mail in order to pack things more carefully. Why pay for shipping supplies when you can just reuse it? With all that’s going on in my life, I really don’t want to have to worry about my fragile items breaking during the transition to the new apartment. That’s why my wife and I are being extra careful with all of our stuff as we pack it up.