Move into the upstairs of your IL's house which the upstairs is 2 bedrooms, a living room/loft and 1 bathroom for 1 year in order to pay off all consumer related debt and have enough for a down payment for a larger home?
I just dont think I can do it. It was offered but I just laughed.
We currently own our home (we DO have a mortgage) and would be in it for 3 more yrs and then get a larger home, not our dream home just a larger one. We live in a 3 bed/2 bath 1800 sq ft and using 1 room as a business studio Its starting to get tight.
Re: Would you.....
No way.
It would depend on how much debt there was and how much faster this would allow me to pay it off. I get along really well with my ILs though.
Now if it was mom offering...never. I would die first.
Nope. I absolutely love my ILs, but that would probably change really fast if I had to live with them.
DH and I have both decided we would live out of the minivan before we would move home with our parents. It just wouldn't happen.
I have to LOL b/c I was watching the Duggar episode with the Bates family and they were a family of 18 living in a 1000sq ft home and you say things are tight with you, your H and a toddler. Things could always be worse...I would live in 500 sq ft to avoid living with my ILs for a year :0)
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Not a chance. Stay where you are and tighten up the spending. I have a 800sf 2 br house and half my dinky bedroom is my craft area. It sucks, but it's better than living with relatives. Do you really think you could have your ILs in your face all the time?
I'd live in my car before living with ILs, but I'm trying to set my own IL feelings aside to answer your question.
Well said!
If 1800sqft is starting to get tight, then you need to get rid of some stuff. Purge. It will make a huge difference.
And yes, I WOULD live with my parents or ILs in the conditions you've described for a year-ish to eliminate all debt if we were in over our heads or if there was a fire in our house etc. But not because we wanted more room and didnt want to just cut our budget and save for a few more years.
I am trying to figure out how that could possibly be "tight" for you.
We just UPGRADED to a 4BR/1.5BA 1700 sq ft house. I have 3 children ages 12, 2, & 1.
And to answer your question, no I would not unless it was an emergency situation such as a fire. Even then I don't think I could do it.
Ditto this.
Let me add, I am talking about MIL and her husband. FIL and his wife (who have the room to actually "take us in"...not in a zillion years). Nor would we move in with my mom.
How much debt are we talking about here? We are trying to balance paying off student loans with buying a house, and we still aren't sure where we want to be so we still haven't purchased though we could.
All of this. If it wouldn't double DH's already horrendous public transit commute, I would totally move us in with my mom (or the ILs, but they live upstate) so we could pay off some debt and save up for a DP on a house. Right now we're just keeping our heads above water.
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Ditto.
Yes, I'd do it if we were completely drowning in debt, we lost our jobs, lost our house. Emergency type reasons. But just because you want a bigger house...sounds a bit ridiculous to me. I really don't see how a 1800sqft house could be tight. We live in something similar and are quite happy.
I'm also a very independent person and so is DH. We'd do whatever we could on our own to pay off our debt and start saving more if having a bigger house was something very important to us. But moving in with family just to save money for a bigger house isn't our style.