What's New Today pt2

[Gerda]

CanBirderino -- I did not know you live in paradise. A house with a pool in Hawaii? Girl, you can MAKE money on that, not just pay your mortgage. Gosh I wish we could talk about this on the phone!!!

I need to go through your post in detail and will do that later but just to put this out there --

The house is a great investment. It is already I assume paying for itself. You are living there for free.

What if you moved to the rental portion, I assume that's smaller, and AirB'd the bigger house? Or keep renting out the rental and create a beautiful room for guests in your house and rent that out on AirB also? You can do this til you can buy him out.

That is the business I am in. One of them. And I am running on fumes. My H pays for nothing. Literally nothing. But I have held on to it all this way. One day I hope to buy him out and keep running my business. I am even thinking of taking all I learned and start flipping houses when my nightmare is over.

I am so sick and tired of women giving up on a viable business because a man is bullying them. Look up Laura Munson and her place Haven Home, see if you can find the column she wrote on figuring out a way to keep the house she loved.

I still don't understand all the loose ends of your agreement where you are still so tied together and so much vagueness about ownership and funds.

I have a great spreadsheet for calculating this stuff, if only I could give it to you!

But maybe I will make a sample one for you to show you how you can quantify all this and buy him out.

My advice is to buy him out, move to the rental or put a tiny house on your property, and start your vacation rentals!

Also this license stuff may be what you need for rentals in Hawaii but I am talking about taxes and accounting stuff. I am talking about quantifying what goes in and out and what is and isn't equity. I will try to write a sample for you to show you what I mean when I have a minute.