Just over 2 years ago my husband and I bought our first house. We had saved and prepared for years and to say it's been disappointing is a huge understatement. I just don't think we were cut out for home ownership at all. It's a (relatively) small house and yard but we still struggle to keep up with maintenance. We're not handy at all and even trying to follow youtube videos usually fails so we end up hiring out pretty much everything which makes things expensive. Not to mention having to coordinate meeting with contractors (who don't even show up half the time) and keep up with yard work has taken up a huge chunk of our spare time. It's not a dump by any means but we've spent about $8k in 2 years just keeping up with normal maintenance issues (nothing fancy or cosmetic). We can afford it but at some point it feels like we're just pouring money into a black hole. Every issue that comes up is 1000x more stressful when we're the ones responsible for it versus just calling the landlord.
I thought it was just normal buyer's remorse and gave it a chance but 2 years later I still feel anxious and stressed about the house all the time. I've been having trouble sleeping at night since we've been here and I'm at the end of my rope. There are still a bunch of things that will need to be fixed before we can sell (in retrospect we should have taken the issues found during inspection more seriously but we were naive and were told it was all a smaller deal than it ended up being). The house has appreciated about $15k and we have decent equity but after taking into account all the other costs I'm sure we'd be taking an overall loss selling now. I'm just so sick of it. The final straw was a pest issue we paid several thousand dollars to presumably have fixed last year is now happening again this year and I just want out. I know it's probably such a stupid financial decision but I want to go back to renting. My life was so much simpler then. Does anyone have any advice? Is it better to cut our losses now or try to suck it up and stay here longer term?
Submitted September 25, 2019 at 10:50AM by ChemicalPear2 https://ift.tt/2lwNGfE
