I was talking to my mom about wanting to be debt free and being tired of living paycheck to paycheck. I told her how hard it is sticking to a budget and how I wished digging myself out of this hole would go faster. She looked at me and said why don't you sell your trailer and land? Ummm duh!
Before we bought our house 3 years ago we lived in a town about 20 miles from here. I had bought a half acre piece of land and a mobile home when I was 18 and lived there until we moved in the house. Well when we moved my brother was having financial problems so I let him and his girlfriend move into the trailer for barely any rent. He has since gone to Iraq as a contractor and gotten himself out of debt and also broken it off with his girlfriend. She is still living in the trailer with her son. I never really thought of putting the place up for sale and giving her notice until my mom brought it up. If I sold the land I could have enough to pay off everything but our cars and mortgage and still put a big chunk into savings. We bought a For Sale by owner sign this week and I talked to my bro's ex and she said that she was already looking for some place to live anyways. I hope it sells quickly but if it doesn't it'll be okay since it's not really costing anything but taxes and insurance right now anyways. That's only 200.00/yr. I've had people inquire about it before but didn't sell because of my brother. I'm going to keep my fingers crossed and hope that it goes quickly.
I can't believe I didn't think of it before.
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Here's to hoping that it sells quickly, and more important, sell for a good price.
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that happens to me, too.
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