Step one... check!

Still in Delaware county Dwight? Dave

West Goshen. The house backs up to a reservoir! I got my trees, but I didn't get the burbling brook I wanted. The reservoir will have to do.

:()

I thought the picture I saw of your Exploder was in front of a two car garage? Don't you need one that will hold more than two anyway??

Welcome to chester county, I know the neiborhood you'r thinking of. Nice.............there are some nice cruising roads in the vicinity.

Dave

Thanks, but me, too. West Chester is like the hub of a spoke wheel when I go out cruising. From there, you can head in almost any direction and find great roads. So, now I'll live in the "hub".

dwight

Nah. That was out back of our twin. One side was actually a garage at one time, but the previous owner had turned it into a storage room (it was also where I garaged my motorcycle, when I had one). The other side is the laundry room. We have room to park two vehicles, but that's about it.

The new place has a nice long driveway, leading up to the garage, with plenty of room to maneuver when I want to switch cars. For the time being, it'll still be the Escape, the two '93s, and my daughter's car (she'll be coming along with us). And that's step one.

Step two is putting a new convertible in that garage, but that'll wait until after we're settled in.

dwight

garage.

Hey, Stranger.

No water?! No drains?! That isn't a real garage! Geeze, next you'll be telling us it doesn't have a lift or tiled floor either. Frog, these things are essentials! Please explain that to Jean. j/k

Wish you the best with your home purchase!

And I thought you were spending all your time in a football NG...

Patrick '93 Cobra

And reversal of that will be like, step 3 or 4? ROFL!

Does a slant that makes water run out of the doors count as a drain?? :-p

Yeah, yeah... Hey, she was real close to having signed an apartment lease, before things went sour at work. Instead of having her with us for another few months, she could have been with us for a few months WITH her lease payments. I consider myself fortunate.

dwight (Besides, she's more than welcome)

Patrick, you know as well as I that it's all about "compromise". I forego the drains, the lift, and the ceramic surfaces, and she gets to not beat me up.

Thanks. I have to go study up on wells now...

I've always split my time between the two! I only hope that Mustangs give me a banner year like the Eagles did... We shall see.

dwight

I just hope it's a very nice garage because just the thought of moving after a decade or two in the same house would have me bolting upright and screaming in the middle of the night. I also hope you're holding some cash back from the sale of your present home, for the convertible and the lift and the plumbing and the TO collectibles. My wife refinanced our house a few years back and we didn't pull out a damn dime. That's un-American.

180 Out

20 years. 20 years of accumulated CRAP, all hidden away in every nook and cranny. I didn't sleep much last night, thinking about the weirdest things. (Like, when I wash my car now, the water runs off into the alleyway, down to the street, and then down the storm drains. When I wash my cars at the new place, the water will drain into my back yard.)

Agreed. We've refinance a few times over the years. (We were lucky to buy a home in 1984 with an assumed mortgage of only 12.75%.) One refinance just happened to be in 1993, when I got a certain black Mustang out of the deal.

After 20 years, it looks like we're going to recoup every dime we ever spent on the place, and then some. "Almost" all of it is going down on the new house, but none of it is going toward the convertible. But, since I absolutely deserve a new Mustang convertible, I shall have one.

dwight (Anybody wanna buy a 1993 GT convertible for ...oh... $20,000?)

Maybe cars are like governments, we all get the one we deserve.

About the re-fi's, in Cali it's a middle class hobby to be pulling out your equity every five years and keeping yourself mortgaged to the hilt. It's the market; prices double about every seven years. A 1300 sq ft 3 bedroom house sitting on a 3800 sq ft lot a couple blocks from me just sold for $830,000. I am not making this up. That's why I say it's un-American of my wife not to have pulled out any dough on our re-fi.

180 Out

Maybe cars are like governments, we all get the one we deserve.

About the re-fi's, in Cali it's a middle class hobby to be pulling out your equity every five years and keeping yourself mortgaged to the hilt. It's the market; prices double about every seven years. A 1300 sq ft 3 bedroom house sitting on a 3800 sq ft lot a couple blocks from me just sold for $830,000. I am not making this up. That's why I say it's un-American of my wife not to have pulled out any dough on our re-fi.

180 Out

I don't know about that... but I'm special. I deserve the best.

Perspective. When I was a youngster in my 30s, I had no problem taking equity out of the home for major purchases. The real estate market was booming then, too, so there was no fear that I wouldn't be able to get it all back. The 90s were particularly flat (around here, at least), and for those ten years, the value of my home rose by about $10.00. It was important to have the lowest interest rate and to concentrate on getting the principal down.

Today we have low interest rates, but housing prices are in a mini-boom again. We felt we had to move NOW. Historically, interest rates seem to settle at between 7.5 and 8.5, so we're betting that today's rates will look REAL good over the next 20 years.

That, and the fact that we just turned 50, means that we won't be taking any more money OUT of the house, but instead make accelerated payments to be debt-free A.S.A.P. We plan on staying put for (knock wood) the next 25 years....

dwight