Sometimes it's just time to move

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Published Date 1/25/2019

The reasons people move from one place to another can be complex, including job relocations, better schools, or closer services. But whether renting or owning, the choice to move is always a big one. Relocating can be an intimidating undertaking. In some cases, however, you are faced with the insurmountable — factors beyond your control that tell you in no uncertain terms that it’s time to go. #WhyImMoving shares a few of these deal breakers, a few upon which we will pontificate.

Doggie don’t. If you live next door to an incessantly barking dog and you have repeatedly complained to its owner (even a homeowner’s association can’t do much about it except threaten), your loss of sleep, headaches, and inability to enjoy your outdoor spaces are enough to drive you away. The sad thing is that an overly-barking dog is usually a lonely, neglected one too.

Ever see one of those “If you lived here, you’d be home now” ads? Commute times seem never to get shorter except on those rare days or times when you have to work on a holiday and no one else does. The time you spend on the road really adds up. If you think about those hours all being calculated together for a 5-day work week with a one-hour commute in each direction, they can total an entire 40-hour week per month. Over the course of a year, that’s three extra months spent going to and returning from work. Somehow spending more on a house that measures less in square footage to live closer in might be worth it.

Bad neighbor juju. Sometimes you move into a neighborhood where all seems well, especially when the homes are new and everyone takes pride in how their front yards look. Then it begins to cycle. That means previously owner-occupied homes become rentals after owners relocate. Lawns become weed-laden. Everyone and their mother parks cars on the street, attaches a basketball goal over their garage door, or lets their home’s exterior fall into disrepair. In other words, what once was your idea of heaven may never return, and it’s time to move on.

Your house doesn’t love you anymore. A leaky roof. An Amityville Horror plumbing problem, backing up your porcelain thrones. The power goes out every time a hairdryer is used. Unless you’re in a rental, you have no recourse than to take that nest egg you had saved for a trip to Europe and spend it on your house. Or you have the choice of selling, disclosing the issues, and taking less money for your home. The choice is always yours, but it’s a grim one no matter how you cut it. Leave equity on the table and improve your circumstances, or stay and empty your pockets for a while.

There are a few things you simply can’t get around. Death, taxes, and weather are among them. While winters in the desert area are to die for, residents in areas where 100+ degree heat is the norm each summer can find themselves becoming prisoners of their air-conditioned homes. That means shopping or using your backyard only at night. By the same token, if you are affected by a lack of sunlight, living in a place where the sun doesn’t shine for weeks or months at a time might drive you up a piece of drywall. Life is short, so think about how much of it you want to spend staying in a place that makes you feel sad or limited in what you can do each day. Then make like a tree and leaf.

Source: TBWS

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