[l2ridehd]

Home selling price is all relative to location and market conditions. Yes CIB may lose 100K on the home she is in now, but may be able to buy lower in TV. If she waits until her home recovers, she will just spend that extra money received here. And the downside to any plan like that is TV swings are not as wide as other places. Who knows what home prices will do in the future? We may very well see more foreclosures and bigger drops. We may see increases. But TV swings are less then the rest of the country.

CIB, I advised you over a year ago, if TV is where you want to be, sell and move there. Life will pass us all by and we will still be wishing we had done it.

And Pturner, there is no guarantee that you are buying in TV low today and will sell your home for more later. The market could get worse and your buying high and will have to sell low.

Just figure out what you want to do with the rest of your life and make it happen. Time is flying by and even if you sell your home for 50 million, you can't buy more time. Nobody sells it.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by l2ridehd

Home selling price is all relative to location and market conditions. Yes CIB may lose 100K on the home she is in now, but may be able to buy lower in TV. If she waits until her home recovers, she will just spend that extra money received here. And the downside to any plan like that is TV swings are not as wide as other places. Who knows what home prices will do in the future? We may very well see more foreclosures and bigger drops. We may see increases. But TV swings are less then the rest of the country.

CIB, I advised you over a year ago, if TV is where you want to be, sell and move there. Life will pass us all by and we will still be wishing we had done it.

And Pturner, there is no guarantee that you are buying in TV low today and will sell your home for more later. The market could get worse and your buying high and will have to sell low.

Just figure out what you want to do with the rest of your life and make it happen. Time is flying by and even if you sell your home for 50 million, you can't buy more time. Nobody sells it.

And a post like this is the reason I love this forum and all of the wisdom that is presented here. What a way to begin this day! I will claim that last quote as my own,12ride!

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by l2ridehd

Home selling price is all relative to location and market conditions. Yes CIB may lose 100K on the home she is in now, but may be able to buy lower in TV. If she waits until her home recovers, she will just spend that extra money received here. And the downside to any plan like that is TV swings are not as wide as other places. Who knows what home prices will do in the future? We may very well see more foreclosures and bigger drops. We may see increases. But TV swings are less then the rest of the country.

CIB, I advised you over a year ago, if TV is where you want to be, sell and move there. Life will pass us all by and we will still be wishing we had done it.

And Pturner, there is no guarantee that you are buying in TV low today and will sell your home for more later. The market could get worse and your buying high and will have to sell low.

Just figure out what you want to do with the rest of your life and make it happen. Time is flying by and even if you sell your home for 50 million, you can't buy more time. Nobody sells it.

What a great post! CIB, you would be wise to listen to 12ridehd!

[TrudyM]

Originally Posted by l2ridehd

Home selling price is all relative to location and market conditions.

CIB, I advised you over a year ago, if TV is where you want to be, sell and move there. Life will pass us all by and we will still be wishing we had done it.
Just figure out what you want to do with the rest of your life and make it happen. Time is flying by and even if you sell your home for 50 million, you can't buy more time. Nobody sells it.

Good point, I keep forgetting that we are (myself included) not 30 years old and time moves fast, that we need to grab what we want. My brother couldn't believe we were going to retire before the full age 66, untill he had a health scare. Now he says go for it you never know whats around the corner. I am such a control freek and number cruncher I try to force the world into equations, unfortunatly they don't work with question marks.

That said hope springs eternal. The peak buying period for the Pacific Northwest is June though Aug or any months with any sunshine, maybe the right someone will walk in and fall in love with your place just like you did. Also the newspapers have a tendency to print the most dramatic example they can find, it may not be indicitive of your place. I am holding good wishes for you and the rest of us wannabees.

We have decided to wait a year to list. But everyones situation is different.



PS One of the realtors we talked to said that after awhile on the market she throws another Brokers open with food to bring the agents back in and keep the listing fresh in their minds seeing the garden in full bloom gives a renewed positive feeling. She said we should fill the yard with blooming bedding plants the week before. If you decide to lower the price a little or even if you don't maybe that would help. Just a thought.

[ConeyIsBabe]

Of course y'all are wise from experience learned by living life to the fullest. I'm working on doing the same.

Thanks again for renewing my faith in TV for my future

[jmitchell]

Originally Posted by ConeyIsBabe

What you say is TRUE..... but I just can't get over the fact that I purchased my Oregon Dream Home for $cash$ and now the market value is $100k less than my investment How many people would take that loss ? Money vs. Lifestyle ......... I'd like to say I would choose lifestyle but then again ~ the option is alive but not now.

CIB,

We are selling a condo in Fairfax, VA for over $100,000 loss. We also paid cash for it so we know how you feel. Luckily for us, we are still able to purchase our home in TV. I hope if you are able, even with the loss, move to TV that you will. We figured it could be 10 years, maybe longer, before the price comes back.

If you are in Grants Pass it is a beautiful area. We visited last year and went to the Antique Car parade. We had a blast!

Good Luck - think positive, be happy!

[getdul981]

Just to put my two cents worth in. My wife and I have been contemplating moving somewhere warmer for several years. We're both retired. She is on disability and can't work because of fibromyalgia. This past September she developed a partially paralized diaphragm while we were on a trip to Florida, of all places. Then we got hit hard by this past winter and decided we've had enough! We were back in Florida the first of May and visited TV. We were both so overwhelmed by the atmosphere and hospitality that we revisited and made a deposit on our little piece of dirt. We came back home and have been frantically trying to get our house ready to sell and listed with a realtor. It may take us the entire year to get it done, but each day we're getting closer. We decided we want to enjoy whatever time we have left and the sooner we get started, the more we'll get out of it. Hope this didn't bore you to tears.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by getdul981

Just to put my two cents worth in. My wife and I have been contemplating moving somewhere warmer for several years. We're both retired. She is on disability and can't work because of fibromyalgia. This past September she developed a partially paralized diaphragm while we were on a trip to Florida, of all places. Then we got hit hard by this past winter and decided we've had enough! We were back in Florida the first of May and visited TV. We were both so overwhelmed by the atmosphere and hospitality that we revisited and made a deposit on our little piece of dirt. We came back home and have been frantically trying to get our house ready to sell and listed with a realtor. It may take us the entire year to get it done, but each day we're getting closer. We decided we want to enjoy whatever time we have left and the sooner we get started, the more we'll get out of it. Hope this didn't bore you to tears.

Welcome Greg.

I feel a moisture in my eyes but it is not due to boredom. I know that part of the joy I feel in The Villages comes from meeting and enjoying folks just like you...and me, who are old enough to really enjoy life.

Good for you two.

Hope to meet you soon.

[Stuart Jim]

Just do it CIB i did and took and took a beating on my condo in Stuart Fl but how much time is realy left and you are a long time dead.
So take the plunge. You can stage it buy the lot first lets say in the new neighborhood next to mine in St.Charles i think its St. James for $3,000 Put your house on the market. Now you got a little presure on you (which is a good thing). Drop your price on your house put some more money down on your lot. Play this game to get yourself off the dime and do it.

[Mudder]

We just returned from closing on our house in TV. We are no longer waanabes ! It took us about 4 years to get there. We're gettting older each day so we said let's just do it !! Still have to sell our house in Tampa, it'll all turn out OK. Sometimes we just have to take risks.

[getdul981]

Originally Posted by Mudder

We just returned from closing on our house in TV. We are no longer waanabes ! It took us about 4 years to get there. We're gettting older each day so we said let's just do it !! Still have to sell our house in Tampa, it'll all turn out OK. Sometimes we just have to take risks.

Well, we weren't quite that adventuresome. We put a deposit on the land and have up to a year to start construction. My wife said to me after we signed the papers, "What if we can't sell our house?". I said, "We'll manage somehow". I'm not 100% sure she bought the idea, but we're having our FIRST yard sale tomorrow. The first realtor came by today and gave us their proposed selling price. We have to hear from the other and then we'll be ready to get it listed. Still a lot of stuff to go through and get rid of though.

[Pturner]

Originally Posted by l2ridehd

Home selling price is all relative to location and market conditions. Yes CIB may lose 100K on the home she is in now, but may be able to buy lower in TV. If she waits until her home recovers, she will just spend that extra money received here. And the downside to any plan like that is TV swings are not as wide as other places. Who knows what home prices will do in the future? We may very well see more foreclosures and bigger drops. We may see increases. But TV swings are less then the rest of the country.

CIB, I advised you over a year ago, if TV is where you want to be, sell and move there. Life will pass us all by and we will still be wishing we had done it.

And Pturner, there is no guarantee that you are buying in TV low today and will sell your home for more later. The market could get worse and your buying high and will have to sell low.

Just figure out what you want to do with the rest of your life and make it happen. Time is flying by and even if you sell your home for 50 million, you can't buy more time. Nobody sells it.

A wise post, as usual, l2!

The time we spend in TV-- which is every chance we get-- is the only certainty we have that it was a great investment. As I said, if we're lucky, the market timing also will have worked out well. That would just be icing.

But, living your dream-- how can you put a value on that?