To sell or not to sell has been the question on my brain for a long time now. The husband and I bought our house in 2006. We stumbled upon it while just riding around looking and I almost immediately knew it had to be mine. We got lucky and it was a foreclosure that had only been on the market for six days. We put a contract on it and got work within a week that they had accepted our offer. That was it. No negotiating. No going back and forth. It was just ours! Like it was meant to be. We started out the process of getting it ready to move in. We did something to almost every room. We've painted all the rooms at least three times, we've upgraded and added and gutted out. I added my jacuzzi tub and painted the cabinets a perfect color. The only problem is, we are simply outgrowing it. At three bedrooms and one bathroom, I just need a little more space. The toys and the Toddler are overtaking the house. And considering it was a foreclosure and we got a REALLY good deal on it, we hope to make a substantial amount of money off of it. But here is the problem.
We celebrated our first anniversary in this house. We found out we were pregnant in this house. We brought our child home to this house. We saw Bentlee take her first steps right in our living room. We watched Bentlee blow out her candles and celebrate her very first birthday in this house.
So, our house has been lived in. We don't just sleep there. We have made memories, we have loved, laughed and argued in this house. I realize that these are things everybody has to leave behind when buying/selling home. I get it. But that doesn't make it any easier. And then our neighbors. We have some wonderful neighbors. If we move, who will I borrow eggs from. Who will I borrow Elmer's glue from at 8:00 at night?
With all that said and all the wonderful things- the facts are still the same. We are outgrowing it. So our options are- we sell and buy something else or we borrow against the house and add on. Adding on would be fine and it would fix almost all the space issues, but then I feel kind of like I am cheating us out of ever knowing what we could have potentially profitted off the house. So I'm kind of at a loss and feel like I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. I also feel like what if I put it on the market and it sells quickly and then I can't find the exact house I want or that I love as much as this one? Then we've just messed up.
Geez. See, how I talk myself around in circles? One minute we should sell and one minute we should stay...
