Sundowners
LIFE MEMBER
Our friends paid a lot for storage for ornaments etc. Five years they were fulltiming, they could have gone out and brought brand new things and had fun buying them, we stored a few bits but we found if they could fit into a caravan that’s what we would do, store them in there. It was so much cheaper, buying a very old water tight caravan and storing in that rather than paying for a container to store.
After visiting a few third world countries we realised that people there were happy but had nothing. What we have are only ‘things’. They could be replaced when needed. When we moved back into a house we purchased all secondhand so we had everything we needed straight away and replace with new as and when.
We have moved on again, renting our house out, whilst setting up a home in a portugal. The rent and our pensions gives us a nice life here. If you are lucky enough to be able to do so, that’s the route we have taken again, having done it twice already. We sold everything that we didn’t need, have brought the rest of our stuff down here, once our building (little home) is done, what doesn’t fit in, will be sold on or thrown away.
If it’s at all possible, and you need the collateral in your house, downsize and rent that out. We have our house near to American airbases, we will only let our house to American servicemen/women. The landlord has more rights than if you rent to English tenants. If you have any problems, ie rent not paid, damage or nuisance to neighbours, you just report to the base and it’s sorted. Also the rent is almost twice what you would get from English tenants. As far as we are concerned it’s a no-brainier.
After visiting a few third world countries we realised that people there were happy but had nothing. What we have are only ‘things’. They could be replaced when needed. When we moved back into a house we purchased all secondhand so we had everything we needed straight away and replace with new as and when.
We have moved on again, renting our house out, whilst setting up a home in a portugal. The rent and our pensions gives us a nice life here. If you are lucky enough to be able to do so, that’s the route we have taken again, having done it twice already. We sold everything that we didn’t need, have brought the rest of our stuff down here, once our building (little home) is done, what doesn’t fit in, will be sold on or thrown away.
If it’s at all possible, and you need the collateral in your house, downsize and rent that out. We have our house near to American airbases, we will only let our house to American servicemen/women. The landlord has more rights than if you rent to English tenants. If you have any problems, ie rent not paid, damage or nuisance to neighbours, you just report to the base and it’s sorted. Also the rent is almost twice what you would get from English tenants. As far as we are concerned it’s a no-brainier.