Seriously consider what it would take to keep the house and just re-fi in your name. banks are generally amenable to re-fis to keep the house payments coming.
Apartment living [censored]. Get a room mate... Whatever it takes.
Just a thought.
While I could afford the house on my own, we JUST bought it in June, and I would have to buy out like $16k of her equity, plus refinancing costs. It wouldn't be worth it, plus it would be the house where my wife left me. So for those reasons, I'm going to go ahead and put it on the market.
I mentioned that we would need to do some landscaping and I would need her help to market it to get top dollar which would benefit us both. She mentioned something about planting flowers, so I'm hoping that at some point, that get's us working together on the house.
We have very little reason for interactions since we don't have kids. If selling the house is what it takes for positive interactions than I'll do it.
Technically $18k of the equity is mine alone before even splitting the remaining equity, but I haven't brought this up to her yet. Before we got married, I purchased my first property with $18k down and have the HUD-1. She had nothing to do with it, so it was my sole/separate property. I saved that money from age 16-23, so it would be pretty crappy of her to not agree that I should get it back. She had nothing to do with it and we hadn't even met yet when I had accumulated that much.
H: 29 WAXW: 30
Bomb Drop- 9/9/13 Negotiated Settlement- 5/9/14 D Final- 5/21/14 XW has breakdown in attorney lobby- 5/30/14
