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Originally Posted by rich76
Once again, I agree with beast then. Sounds like you've already decided the move is better....in numerous ways.
If there was one single thing high on your list it would be to buy or rent. In my experience......... I rented most of my life (convenience as I also moved around a bit) but now that I've owned for 20+ years, my very best decision was to buy.
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If I was 43....even 53...the thought of buying would be my leaning as well. But I'm 63, 6 weeks from 64..........starting a new mortgage at a time some are starting a reverse mortgage is more than a little scary. Making a quick decision to rent is easily rectified, making a quick decision to buy, not so much.
Little of my financial life the past 20 years has gone according to my preferred plan, but now that I've gotten where I have, the last thing I need is another backfire.
There's a duplex for rent that ticks most (possibly all not sure) my boxes and is the most reasonably priced (without being a hole) out there.........but there's also a couple brand new never lived in homes in the only small town between the 25k I'd most likely live in and the town the company is in (happy medium location wise, but no rentals) that are listed as 2 bedroom only because they've only studded out the basement where 2 more could be (raising the question of why not finish it so the price can be raised, but also thinking if I finished it, it's a bump to resell price)
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