I told him if he wants to buy the house that is 3-4 blocks from our current home, fine. But we will have to set up a budget and see what all he will have to sell off first, in order to afford it....I replied via email so trust me there was no emotion in that reply....
He will only be more miserable. The house he is looking at has a one-car garage, it is priced $35K below the house I bought, is 10 years older, I think it has orange siding.....I don't know how his ego will let him buy it. This man makes 6 figures a year and will be living in the least expensive home we have ever owned except for the one we tore down to the studs in Iowa when he make 30K a year...
But as you all say, not my problem.
The thing about renting is we are a small farming community. The only apartments/homes for rent in our town are basically revolving-door meth labs. I know from my experience there is nothing to rent....he could rent a nice apartment in Omaha or Council Bluffs but that is 30 minutes away and the kids would be living out of our school district, with a 30 minute commute to school. Not gonna happen. So he can live with me, with his parents, in a meth lab/white trash house, or buy a house. Lucky him....
