Selling One House While Buying Another: How to Think About the Timing
You are not deciding whether to sell first or buy first. You are deciding which failure you can live through: a stretch of nights…
Puts the whole price of a Chattanooga address on one page, not just the mortgage: taxes, insurance, flood cover, association dues, utilities, the second car, and what a longer commute costs you in hours a year. It also covers the move itself, from the relocation budget to the timing of selling one house while buying another.
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You are not deciding whether to sell first or buy first. You are deciding which failure you can live through: a stretch of nights…
You are deciding whether the address you like forces your household to own a second car, and whether you would still pick that address…
You are deciding whether a fourth bedroom and a half-acre are worth the hours of your week that the farther address takes back, and…
You are deciding how much of your cash the move itself consumes, so that the price you give the lender and the agent is…
Two houses at the same price are not the same purchase. You are deciding which one your monthly budget can carry, and the list…
You are deciding whether the hours a longer commute takes out of a year are worth the house, the yard, the district, or the…
You are deciding whether you can afford the life that runs from this address, and the purchase payment is one line of that number.…
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