My Son is Selling His House

@BelleStarr (61050)
United States
November 21, 2017 3:19pm CST
My middle son ownes two houses. He bought the first one about 20 years ago. It has a main apartment and two other apartments. It is on a large piece of land with a three car garage and an inground swimming pool. He occupied the main apartment and rented the other two. This house is more than 200 years old. About 10 years ago he bought another house in the next town but he kept the first house. The new house is open concept, a cape cad with beautiful wood floors and a wooded lot. This is the house that he is selling. How do I know? I saw the listing on Facebook. He is selling it himself on Realtor.com He and his wife are empty nesters and the house is just way more home than they need. I will be seeing him on Thanksgiving so I will get all the particulars but I am not quite sure where they plan to live after they sell the house. He has said on Facebook that he is moving back to the town where his first house is but not to that house. This particular son is very independant and if I asked him he would tell me everything but on his own, he wouldn't call and tell us. I am not very curious so I rarely ask anything. He is financially secure so money is not an issue. This son is a middle child and he has always kept his own counsel, even as a small child. Do you ever wonder how children are so different can grow up in the same family? My elder son and my youngest, my daughter talk to me almost every day. When this son calls, I know it has to be pretty serious. Anyway, I hope that he finds a buyer soon and can move on to the next phase of his life. He keeps joking on Facebook about needing to sell before his kids decide to move back in and his daughter in North Carolina is chimming back in that he is being rude. lol By the way, his middler daughter, husband and two children live in one of his apartments. I jokingly tell him we are going to retire into another one lol
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@sallypup (57307)
• Centralia, Washington
21 Nov 17
I'd love to snoop in a 200 yr old house. What fun! That'a lovely house in the photo, too. I am not much like the rest of the kids in my family, either.
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@BelleStarr (61050)
• United States
21 Nov 17
I have to say that I have very little in common with my two brothers but personality wise we are similar. I have a serious side and one of my brothers is more serious and the other is a goof ball like me. lol By the way, the 200 year old house is haunted.
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@sallypup (57307)
• Centralia, Washington
21 Nov 17
@BelleStarr I'm the bookish one in my family. My Dad was a story teller. Maybe I get it from him.
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@BelleStarr (61050)
• United States
21 Nov 17
@sallypup Neither of my parents was bookish, they read the newspaper that is about it. My brothers aren't big readers either, I got it from some other family member. I don't know if you saw that I add a comment about the 200 year old house, it is haunted.
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@celticeagle (157593)
• Boise, Idaho
21 Nov 17
Sounds like a sound individual. Sometimes I wish I had bought a house. But I know I am better off without.
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@BelleStarr (61050)
• United States
21 Nov 17
I always wanted to buy a house and we did after 5 years of being married and we still live in that house.
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@celticeagle (157593)
• Boise, Idaho
22 Nov 17
@BelleStarr ....I have bought two houses in two different marriages. Lost them cause I knew I couldn't afford them on my own.
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@AmbiePam (84668)
• United States
21 Nov 17
It is fascinating how people from the same family and up so different. The picture is beautiful!
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@BelleStarr (61050)
• United States
21 Nov 17
Thank you yes it is a very attractive house.
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@Juliaacv (48236)
• Canada
21 Nov 17
I wonder that about my brothers and I. The 4 of us are all so very different, yet we were raised together by the same parents under the same roof. But circumstances that happen uniquely to each of us have altered our paths and allowed us to demonstrate our emotions differently. And we all do that! My husband's family is similar. He had his older 2 brothers are a lot alike, the brother closest to him in age, is nothing like him in personality. I like the picture of this home, is this the one that he is selling?
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@BelleStarr (61050)
• United States
21 Nov 17
Yes it is, it is very pretty inside as well. My interests are very different from my brothers but personality wise we share a lot of traits.
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@DianneN (246452)
• United States
22 Nov 17
My older son didn't even call to tell us our granddaughter broke her heel, nor did he tell us he was on vacation in Texas when I texted him. Our younger son calls, texts, or stops by every day. He just sold his house while he was on his honeymoon. lol. The contract is signed. Kids! Gotta love them! Best of luck to your son.
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@BelleStarr (61050)
• United States
22 Nov 17
lol Thank you, yes it does make us wonder doesn't it why we need to pry the info out of one and sometimes with the others it is TMI lol
@JudyEv (323706)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 Nov 17
You're right about siblings being so different even when brought up seemingly the same. You'd wonder how it happens sometimes.
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@BelleStarr (61050)
• United States
21 Nov 17
This particular child always was less smiley and more serious than my other two. He was a preemie and I wonder if that was part of it.
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@Tampa_girl7 (48855)
• United States
22 Nov 17
I love old homes. I bet the 200 year old home is magnificent.
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@BelleStarr (61050)
• United States
22 Nov 17
It is an interesting house, darker inside than modern homes and haunted so magnificent, maybe not interesting definitely.
@Fleura (28941)
• United Kingdom
22 Nov 17
Yes it is funny, I used to think it would be a fun experiment to have a lot of children and see how they turned out. Now I have two and they are quite different but certainly quite enough work!!
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@BelleStarr (61050)
• United States
22 Nov 17
lol Yes I had always planned to have 6 children at least but after 5 pregnancies and 3 living children the doctor shut me down, I had three c-sections and in those days three was the limit. I still wish I had had a few more, not that mine aren't great but when I see my daughter and her 5 boys I am a bit envious.
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@Fleura (28941)
• United Kingdom
22 Nov 17
@BelleStarr Wow you made a heroic effort for sure, I didn't fancy the idea of even one C-section (although I was born that way). I'm sorry about the two that didn't make it.
@MarymargII (12422)
• Toronto, Ontario
22 Nov 17
Perhaps you could all live in a set up like the one with the apartments as you said, - Who knows it would be a fun or (maybe not) ha! for all retirees and families :
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@BelleStarr (61050)
• United States
22 Nov 17
lol I don't think he plans to move back to that house, I have however thought of buying a house with our daughter that would have an in-law apartment. I live in a town about 10 miles away.
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@MarymargII (12422)
• Toronto, Ontario
24 Nov 17
@BelleStarr That could be a good idea for later- it may be a wise move for you.