Wondering...

[primsong]

Wow - just found out the house next door to ours is going to be going on the market later in the Spring or early Summer - this is a parcel that was originally a part of ours but was surveyed off for the son of the original builder to have a family home built there. The son and original family having moved on, it is mighty tempting to buy it and 'put the land back together' - this house shares our driveway. We could potentially buy it if we sold our *other* house that we just moved out of and then rented it... it would mean having a big enough parcel (1 and a half acres) that we could possibly have our retirement in its value for development...

Much as I hate the thought of development here, I can't help but think on it -- maybe 15 years down the road, with the way this part of the valley is going, it would make sense to let this be developed and use the money to move somewhere away from all the traffic.

Gah - I've never been a wheeler-dealer with things like this...a savings account is about my speed of safety in 'investments' - but I think we'll look into it. Argh...but what if, after all is said and done I simply cannot become a tree-killer? Do we end up donating it all for a nature park? So hard to envision this, even as a vague possibility that we don't even know if we can pull off.

Comments

[tuilelindowen.livejournal.com]

If you buy it now it will probably increase in value and you would be able to sell it for more later down the road than what you bought it for. Look at it as an investment.

[primsong.livejournal.com]

I am trying to - but you know, I was always one of those who would grumble everytime I saw some large lot being sold to developers and all the trees being taken down... Now that the shoe might be on the other foot, I'm not sure what I think of that fit!