Rule #1 — Always rent a year first in your new location, so if you hate it you can leave easily. NEVER buy property in your new location, where you are stuck if you hate it.
Sure, I will get responses from 1000 Freepers who loved the place where they bought in a new place. It happens too. But there is no downside to loving your new place. You would buy eventually anyway.
Ask anybody who regretted their new retirement location home a year or two later and had to completely unwind to move elsewhere.
If you rent the first year and hate it, you just drop the keys off with the landlord. Sure, you have store all your stuff for a year, but that is much cheaper than if you buy, hate it, and then have to sell again.
” Rule #1 — Always rent a year first in your new location-—”
Best advice EVER.
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