Comments on: New Windows and a Step Closer to Renting http://movetoportugal.org/new-windows-and-a-step-closer-to-renting/ Simple living and moving to the sunshine Tue, 22 May 2012 22:13:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: How to Move to Portugal | Married with Luggage http://movetoportugal.org/new-windows-and-a-step-closer-to-renting/#comment-2065 How to Move to Portugal | Married with Luggage Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:26:29 +0000 http://movetoportugal.org/?p=1611#comment-2065 [...] (they are booked out to 2020!), check out her blog and specifically these posts about the plan, fixing up their house to sell. She writes about debt-free living at No More [...] [...] (they are booked out to 2020!), check out her blog and specifically these posts about the plan, fixing up their house to sell. She writes about debt-free living at No More [...]

]]> By: Mortgage Free and Renting | Move to Portugal http://movetoportugal.org/new-windows-and-a-step-closer-to-renting/#comment-1644 Mortgage Free and Renting | Move to Portugal Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:13:53 +0000 http://movetoportugal.org/?p=1611#comment-1644 [...] posted last week about how we were replacing the windows in our house ready to rent it out in 2012. This [...] [...] posted last week about how we were replacing the windows in our house ready to rent it out in 2012. This [...]

]]> By: anna http://movetoportugal.org/new-windows-and-a-step-closer-to-renting/#comment-1640 anna Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:01:11 +0000 http://movetoportugal.org/?p=1611#comment-1640 Tony - thanks so much for your comment. I think we have just been unlucky with our tenancy and at the moment I'm feeling really nervous of taking another one. But as you say, we aren't planning to move in the UK again so our experience renting abroad could be as fab as yours was - sounds truly fantastic. You are so right about swinging around like a weather vane in a gale. If it's Sunday, I'm thinking one way: Monday, another! Tony – thanks so much for your comment. I think we have just been unlucky with our tenancy and at the moment I’m feeling really nervous of taking another one. But as you say, we aren’t planning to move in the UK again so our experience renting abroad could be as fab as yours was – sounds truly fantastic.
You are so right about swinging around like a weather vane in a gale. If it’s Sunday, I’m thinking one way: Monday, another!

]]> By: Tony http://movetoportugal.org/new-windows-and-a-step-closer-to-renting/#comment-1639 Tony Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:39:22 +0000 http://movetoportugal.org/?p=1611#comment-1639 @anna: it's sometimes not easy to plot a way forward is it? ;) I guess you need to decided what's really important to you, and plan for that. Mind you renting doesn't have to mean polyester curtains and gas guzzling central heating - at least if you are prepared to move beyond Britain's borders. I have stayed in 5 star luxury for a few hundred quid a month in countries like Thailand and Malaysia. In one placed I stayed I had a protected coral reef and eco resort literally on my door step. I woke up each morning and snorkelled in clear, warm blue seas, and not a polyester curtain in sight! If you do really want a place of your own (and that's something you need to think really hard about) then you will have to tie some capital up - there's no way around that. It's also possible to own your own home and still travel too. Easy? No. Possible? Yes. And don't worry that you constantly blow hot and cold on a range of possibilities - you are not alone (I do it all the time)! :) @anna: it’s sometimes not easy to plot a way forward is it? ;) I guess you need to decided what’s really important to you, and plan for that. Mind you renting doesn’t have to mean polyester curtains and gas guzzling central heating – at least if you are prepared to move beyond Britain’s borders. I have stayed in 5 star luxury for a few hundred quid a month in countries like Thailand and Malaysia. In one placed I stayed I had a protected coral reef and eco resort literally on my door step. I woke up each morning and snorkelled in clear, warm blue seas, and not a polyester curtain in sight!

If you do really want a place of your own (and that’s something you need to think really hard about) then you will have to tie some capital up – there’s no way around that. It’s also possible to own your own home and still travel too. Easy? No. Possible? Yes.

And don’t worry that you constantly blow hot and cold on a range of possibilities – you are not alone (I do it all the time)! :)

]]> By: anna http://movetoportugal.org/new-windows-and-a-step-closer-to-renting/#comment-1636 anna Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:05:13 +0000 http://movetoportugal.org/?p=1611#comment-1636 We've had such a bad experience with this rented house that we've actually been put off renting - either here or abroad. It is slowly dawning on me that it is important to me to own my own home! I need to be in control of my home: it's important to me to be able to have 'green' type infrastructure; ecologically sound and frugally set up systems; and items that I LIKE in my home. No old carpet; polyester-mix curtains; gas-guzzling heating; and crappy old washing machine for instance. Also we want a garden with good soil to grow our own food/veg. So, now we're really re-thinking about our wish to be 'nomadic' for a while. How does one do that if not renting and leaving every six months? Nor are we RV people. I think that the best case scenario for us is to buy a small stone house - would have to cost less than 100k - then travel to and from there. Then my brother tells me that it's crazy to tie up that amount of money (essentially dead money - no kids to leave it to) in a house when we're in our 50s... OMG. We’ve had such a bad experience with this rented house that we’ve actually been put off renting – either here or abroad. It is slowly dawning on me that it is important to me to own my own home! I need to be in control of my home: it’s important to me to be able to have ‘green’ type infrastructure; ecologically sound and frugally set up systems; and items that I LIKE in my home. No old carpet; polyester-mix curtains; gas-guzzling heating; and crappy old washing machine for instance. Also we want a garden with good soil to grow our own food/veg.
So, now we’re really re-thinking about our wish to be ‘nomadic’ for a while. How does one do that if not renting and leaving every six months? Nor are we RV people. I think that the best case scenario for us is to buy a small stone house – would have to cost less than 100k – then travel to and from there. Then my brother tells me that it’s crazy to tie up that amount of money (essentially dead money – no kids to leave it to) in a house when we’re in our 50s…
OMG.

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