http://legacydaily.com/2008/09/should-you-buy-or-build-your-next-home/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=should-you-buy-or-build-your-next-home thoughts, lessons, observations, and experiences from a life's journey Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:36:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://legacydaily.com/2008/09/should-you-buy-or-build-your-next-home/#comment-38 legacy daily Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:55:02 +0000 http://legacydaily.com/?p=116#comment-38 Thanks for visiting. After rereading the article I realized that my words are just not enough to describe the magnitude of what this project entailed for me personally. The result is very nice but was it worth it? After thinking about this for three years, I feel it was not. We often get trapped in the idea that we "own" our houses. The fact is we lease what we "own" for the duration of our stay. Some of the houses in our area are over a hundred years old and I'm sure at least ten families have thought that they "owned" the same home in the past. Thanks again! Thanks for visiting. After rereading the article I realized that my words are just not enough to describe the magnitude of what this project entailed for me personally. The result is very nice but was it worth it? After thinking about this for three years, I feel it was not. We often get trapped in the idea that we “own” our houses. The fact is we lease what we “own” for the duration of our stay. Some of the houses in our area are over a hundred years old and I’m sure at least ten families have thought that they “owned” the same home in the past. Thanks again!

]]> http://legacydaily.com/2008/09/should-you-buy-or-build-your-next-home/#comment-37 Monica Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:56:57 +0000 http://legacydaily.com/?p=116#comment-37 My brother and sil are in the middle of building a stawbale house. And I can certainly attest to everything you've written based on my observations of their journey. The emotional and business dimensions you wrote about are bang on! So true, yet they're never named when people talk casually or even seriously about building a house. It's a huge, huge undertaking that affects every part of you ... it's not just the physical experience of the actual building. My brother and sil are in the middle of building a stawbale house. And I can certainly attest to everything you’ve written based on my observations of their journey. The emotional and business dimensions you wrote about are bang on! So true, yet they’re never named when people talk casually or even seriously about building a house. It’s a huge, huge undertaking that affects every part of you … it’s not just the physical experience of the actual building.

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