09/08/2022
Why is it that I feel the need to explain, to literally everyone who comes to the house, that we’re not rich t***s?
I feel the need to explain how we got here, that we’ve only been homeowners for 10 years, that we spent 8 years living in two different building sites.
We put down £5k, as a deposit, on our first house, it was a wreck, we had NO IDEA what we were doing.... we muddled through, we did everything ourselves with a lot of help/guidence from my bonus Dad.
We’ve worked really, really hard.
The increase in value, of our houses in Frome, was down to endless work and sacrifice, but also calculated risk, blind optimism and a healthy dose of luck.
We never thought we’d sell either house. We made solid choices at the time to suit our family. When we sold our last frome house, it was to buy land, with space for work. That was our journey, we just got priced out of Frome.
Frome boomed, we thought it would, but we underestimated quite how much.
My house increased in value, at the expense of other people being able to rent affordable houses.
Someone always has to pay. That kills me. We do a lot of charity work to help redress the balance in our heads.
Perhaps that’s why I still don’t feel entirely comfortable living in such a big place.
We didn’t buy this house so we could lord it up, it’s an investment, and it’s a pension.
We plan to do events here. It’s work as well as home.
Also, as a quick reality check, it’s really bloody expensive, it could take us forever to get the house to the place we want it to be. It was a huge risk.
We are not blingy people. We don’t spend anything on ourselves ever, we both drive s**t cars.
This house is everything.
Please follow our journey here and on Insta.
(also this acer changes colour daily! It’s insane)
