Buying, building or renting

5 January 2016

Hello my friends it has been a few days since I have done a post so I have a few days to fill in so here goes and they are work, beach,  4x4 driving, getting bogged getting sunburnt - the sunburn was completely by accident.
We try to pack as much into the weekend as possible because I am at work ( hubby is home) and the kids are going off to their grand parents on the weekend for their last two weeks of school holidays I can't believe the end of holidays has come around so quickly.

Ok the title, I figured it has peaked your interest so I will explain, we are fortunate to be in the situation where we have a big decision to make.  Do we build a house, buy established - a older house and do it up or keep renting.  We have never been in this situation before and well we have been going back and forward on the issue and still no closer to making a decision.  One day we decide to rent, the next we decide to buy an do up, then it is build because it is all new and you don't need to do anything to it. I am finding the whole thing exhausting and stressful and would love to just hand over the decision to hubby and be done with it but then I think if I do that then I have no right to say I don't like it when I never had a vote - not sure what would happen if we came to a impasse - it would be interesting!!!!
I do like older houses but I also like new houses and some of their design features, but I like the character a old house has.  I don't really like renting because I am not allowed to do anything, we have to think really carefully because miss 10 only has 2 years of primary school left, master 9 has 3 years and then they are off to high school.
With a new house you can have heaps of storage built in and can be organised right from the get go.........hmmm I am seeing the benefits of building a new house as to buying a established house.

I will keep you all updated on what happens, and if we build there will be all of the annoying stage photos - I know they are not interesting but I will be to excited not to show it off. Hmm looks like I am going to be spending a bit of time on pintrest figuring out how to get rooms organised, storage systems in place and of course the big question can I get new furniture?, might have to bribe hubby on that one........how much pizza and beer do you think I would need ?