Thanks for sharing where you're at. Would you mind sharing a bit of background? For example, this stickybeak would be interested to hear what made you decide to do this, how long it had been your dream, what your future plans are, how the kids are adapting, and anything else that you care to share.
Well Tracey,
I'm glad you asked because i wanted to share but wasn't sure anybody wanted to hear
It has always been a dream of mine to live on a " bit of land that i needed a ride on lawnmower" So an acre would have been nice
My loverly understanding wife never shared my vision until one day we went for a drive and that was only 18 months ago.
I said to my wife, have a look at this place, look at that place, geez that ones nice, we can afford that. Lets go for a drive one day, just to have a look, i would say. So two weeks before the "road trip" we printed out possible properties. Why do we need to much land she would ask. I said because we can. What are we going to do with all that land she would ask, i said, go for a walk
Play footy with the kids, fly a kite. Have a cow maybe.
So on the saturday, we all got up early, we had 4 places to look at, 3 in Gembrook and 1 in Emerald. We didn't expect to find somethink we liked, little alone fall in love with a property. The first two we nice and then we went to Emerald to look at a 6 acre property.....you guessed it we fell in love with it, my wife loved it. I was shocked. We didn't even look at the 4th house, we spent the rest of the day, soaking up the atmosphe of Emerald coffes shops etc............checked out schools, kinders.....etc, our kids are 10, 8, 7, 4
We did everthing wrong, first we let our emotions take over, we bought the house before we even put our place on the market. We got 120 days on the new place, as it turned out, we needed every minute.
Second mistake was picking the wrong RE Agent to sell our house, as it turned out, it ended up being our best decision too...............i will explain.
I won't go into it now, why this agent was so bad but he couldn't sell our house because he couldn't care anyless........
We had a IP unit, so a friend said, why don't you sell the unit and turn you place into an IP. We contacted a Morgage broker and from that point onwards, every person we came in contact with, was fantastic. This Broker, Eric, went far beyond his call of duty to help us out of a sticky siulaation we got ourselves into because settlement was coming up and we were in deep sh@t!!!
He put us in contact with an RE Agent to sell our unit, this agent was willing to help paint the place if he needed to. He was prepared to do anything to help us.
(If you want contact details of these two giuys, i would be more than willing to recommend them) The agent is in the Essedon area, in Melbourne.
Anyway, the buying and selling process, is nearly enough pressure to rip a family apart, i never ever want to go thru that again. But it has made us stronger as a family.
So the out come was, that we are now living our dream, with more "good" debt .
We moved up here in Sept. and decided to leave the kids in there school until the end of the year. So now their school is 35 mins away, its been hard but worth it for them. We have been to their new school and it is fantastic. They start there next year.
I have gone on long enough, anything else, just ask,
GG
