If you follow my Instagram (@beingtricia) you know that I have been on a ride these past few months with my second baby due (seriously any day now) and being forced to move which has turned into a search to finally buy. Just one day before we had planned to renew our lease, we were told it wasn’t being renewed as the owner was moving back in.
The thing is, that whole month leading up to that day we had been looking to buy and trying to decide if we wanted to renew or try to buy or find a new rental, as our current rental house wouldn’t allow month to month, only a year renewal. We had decided to renew and then keep looking to buy and would have to break the lease if and when we found our home, which would mean losing some money but we would only have to move once. And we really love our current rental..we even offered to buy it.
So, we had put it out there into the universe that we wanted to buy. With this new news of HAVING to find a new home we gave ourselves one month to find a buy and if we couldn’t find a buy we would look for a new rental, as they had given us a two month move out notice. Meaning that we had to be out 11 days after my due date. FUN!
After stalking real estate sites and seeing dozens of houses in person, we found a really great place for the money we wanted to spend that had everything we were looking for, but of course would need some changes/fixes. We entered escrow and the timing was going to be perfect! We were going to be able to move in the week before I was due! And be out of our current rental by July 31st, the date they gave us to be out by!!! YES!!!! It was all working out!
But, we weren’t getting too excited because the seller had a contingency and was apparently going through some serious family medical issues so wasn’t given the sale much attention and it made us feel shaky but I kept believing it was all working out even though my partner kept the house hunt open just in case. Then two weeks into escrow, after we paid for the inspection and appraisal and had done everything on our part, she pulled out! And we were back to square one and the time was closing on us.
To add more fun to the ride the owner of our rental requested to show the house to renters just a few days later. ?!?!?!??!!?!? What?!?! He was kicking us out to rent to someone else??? When I was due to have a freaking baby! What the hell?!?!
I was definitely feeling a bit of rage…but kept this mantra up.
And it was! His plan fell through (he was going to rent to a military buddy) and he decided to keep using the property manager and that meant we are now able to go month to month until we lock in a new home!!!!!
When we found out the owner’s plans fell through I was like seriously?!!! He put us through all of that for the past two months and now really we are fine to stay?!!? So, really we could have just renewed our lease like we intended to?
BUT, I think it was a good thing. It got us motivated to buy, to be clearer and clearer on what we wanted, what we didn’t want, where we are open to moving to, and how much we are open to paying for it. He forced us to get serious about what we did want. Because we could have just found another rental and been done with it. We could have just renewed our lease for a full year and not made much progress in buying and now we get to go month to month and (HOPEFULLY) find our home.
A good portion of our stuff is already packed or been given away and I feel great about that even if we stay here another two months or more. I got to clear out what we really don’t need and use. I got to simplify and keeping moving more and more that way.
These past couple months have felt a bit like an intense spiritual journey, it was a huge practice in the art of non-attachment, trusting the journey and reinforcing my belief and teaching to create possibilities not expectations.
We are still on a bit of a roller coaster with where will we go next?! And moving with a newborn doesn’t sound like the easiest, and our costs at this rental are going up….but I am trusting this journey! And all of the ups and downs of my entire life that have gotten me right here.
So hey….maybe you aren’t going through the best time of your life right now…but how about joining me in trusting the journey?
