My husband gets attached to things sentimentally and loves our home we left. He really wanted to keep it to rent out so we could still keep it. I was feeling that it wasn't a great idea since I'm done being a landlord. He was planning to take care of being the landlord as I had done in the past so I figured he could deal with it if he wanted to keep it.
Since we moved, we have been at odds about the house because I was getting answers that it just wasn't simple to keep the house and I am into simplifying. My husband is one stubborn person when it comes to that deep sentimental emotion. I figured I couldn't win the battle but I put my two cents in and he listened a little. I told him we needed to go over our financial situation and then decide. After a couple of days, we got the financials out in the open and he was willing to do what it took to keep the house until... we realized we couldn't invest in the business if we kept it. We really couldn't do it all and we needed to make a choice. Let me rephrase that, HE needed to make a choice between the house and investing.
The house is on the market as we speak. It is valued at nothing, okay not nothing but a good seventy thousand less than what we owe. We get to do a short sale along with millions of others who bought when the market was high. Everything is falling into place. We qualify for programs and we have great support to make the process go smoothly. We don't know how quickly it will sell but I know it will happen when the time is right.
I know my husband and I know our Father in Heaven knows my husband too. We are individuals to Him. He is pushed gently to make choices he doesn't want to make. My husband moved first and then we were pushed to move with him, which made it so we weren't living there when we made the choice. It did make it easier to be away from it, and the basis of the decision was something else he felt strongly about. I know he is so blessed and cared about and is allowed to receive his own answers and peace.
