Our lives are still in limbo as we try to sell our MA home (we need the funds to buy a house across the pond), but the good news at least, is that our tenants will finally vacate our home on November 1, despite their notice being up on August 31. It has taken a lot of pressure and sweetened deals to achieve this, and we have been up and down in fits of despair since potential buyers don't want to 'inherit' tenants who won't leave. Spending time in our own tranquil Maine haven has helped temper us through this.
In the interim, we've been scrolling online at every possible moment for the perfect home for us - we want lots of nature, a place with character, not the suburbs, no stairs, a walk-in shower, a workshop, a kitchen with more counterspace than I currently have, and a room big enough for our bed, and something not going to break the bank!
This week I came across a cottage named Avalon (restorative place), that has an acre of natural woodland that is not part of a broader nature conservancy with tight regulations (we can install solar panels and don't have to maintain public walking trails or bridal paths) but ... it needs some work/updating inside. The price and setting are perfect, but there are stairs to the downstairs bedrooms, the kitchen doesn't meet my above-mentioned specs, and we would need to do some remodeling of bathrooms. The deck and view are amazing though - it looks out over the trees
but there is an aging bathroom to contend with, for example .... what do we do? Bathrooms can be redone, but neighbors can't be moved or trees restored overnight. I'm interested, but we can't commit or buy without a sale here first, and then this might have been snatched up. So we keep looking and try not to fall too heavily in love with a property in the meanwhile.
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