Counting My Blessings
Buying a house has been rather rough on our finances. When we had our mobile home, all we had to pay each month was lot rent, which was much cheaper than a house payment. And this house still needs a lot of work, so there are plenty of extra expenses in our future. But as stressful as it often is to scrape up the money for the mortgage each month and deal with the problems that come with an older home, I’m still glad we moved from where we were.
If you were reading my blog back when we still lived there (from when I started it to early 2008), you know that there was no love lost between us and our landlady. She was a major busybody who thrived on making other people’s lives a living hell, particularly her renters. Her family was all pretty much just like her, and they did their best to pull other people into the middle of their problems. Hubby and I had wanted out long before she told us we had to move, but we planned on buying some land and taking our trailer with us. I still hate that it didn’t go down that way, but at least we got out without having to take a chance on renting from some other evil landlord.
There’s always some kind of crap going on with that bunch. We heard last week that a female from that family was making some pretty serious claims about a guy she had been dating. You know, the kind of claims that can ruin a person’s life whether they’re found to be true or not. I don’t want to go into details because there’s a kid in the midst of it all, but the more I hear about it, the more I believe that she’s flat out lying.
It may have been a hassle to find a house, get financing, and find reasonably cheap home insurance, but as far as I’m concerned it was totally worth it. If we were still living in our old place, they would most assuredly be trying to find some way to put us right in the middle of the whole mess. And I’m perfectly happy to stay as far away from it as I possibly can.
