Nancy Young > wrote in message
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> "The Ranger" > wrote
>> Nancy Young > wrote
>
>>> Heh, aren't you glad you took the effort to move them?
>>> I have toyed with the idea of moving and looked around
>>> thinking, what would I bring? because I have a lot of stuff
>>> I would not bother taking.
>>>
>> Remodel. It's loads cheaper and you'll enjoy similar
>> benefits (packing up and making decisions on what
>> goes and what moves with you) without the heartburn
>> of dealing with a moving company. You can put the
>> wad o' cash saved in remodeling towards the Survival
>> Party.
>>
> I hear ya, and it's really astonishing to me when I drive
> around my neighborhood to see how many people have
> massively remodelled if not totally replaced their house. The
> land is definitely where the value is in my property. However,
> if I remodel, I will have to pay for that, whereas
> if I sell, I can just use that money to get what I want.

That's what a remodel is all about; getting what _you_ want and
not some cookie-cutter pattern designed by a sweathouse
architecture stuck in some corporation's nightmare.

But I do understand instant gratification, too. =8^)

ObFood: After we moved in, before the kitchen was even finished, I
set up our Coleman and cooked a pot of spaghetti and meat sauce.
Clean-up was simple.

The Ranger