Of Houses and Fathers

[mishalak]

I spent most of the day with my Dad looking at houses. I do this to humor him because he still regards my life as broken and so he wants to fix it. I don't regard my life as broken in the same way he does. He thinks that I ought to work more so that I can get a big house and have financial security. The idea of working more, say working as hard as if I had a second job fixing up a house, just to move out into another one is rather off putting. I'd rather keep living in an apartment and wait for a house I'd want to move into and keep.

Does that make sense? I'm seeing it as undesirable to work harder for just more money, but desirable to get a house I intend to keep fixed up the way I want. I'm unhappy with my life, but I am not unhappy enough to do radical amounts of work to change it.

A Bit of Clarification
What my Dad was suggesting was that we buy this house in south Aurora and fix it up and sell it in two or three years. Make $50,000 profit on it and move on to another house and possibly doing the same thing until I could afford my dream house. I really don't want to be doing that. If I were to be involved in a massive fix up project for years I'd want it to be my own home and I would not care if the house was small or something. I'm not looking for the same thing my dad does, which is some sort of huge monster house.

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[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Oh I might have some time to spend on a house, but not the sort of find a messy but fixable house to repair and sell for a profit that my dad is suggesting. Heck, if I could find a house not too far out on the west side of town I'd love to buy a home and live in part as I renovate the other half myself. But it would have to be someplace for me to live and not a buy and flip investment.