choice of houses

teddysmum

Buy the house for yourselves and not for your daughter.


Hopefully, by the time you are gone, she will have left home and have her own house, so would probably sell yours , if left it.


Something not mentioned about the abattoir: a little girl who loves animals would be very upset, if she asked why the animals were going past, in one direction only.

nubbins

Yeah best to tell your kids that meat grows on trees just in case the little poppets get upset.

annaj42

Hi Teddysmum
Thanks for your reply.
The point I was trying to make is that I don't want to leave my daughter a house that is difficult to sell. I realise she will have her own life by then but the issue of selling the house whether by us or her remains. My husband was left a caravan that was a nightmare to get rid of. Also with regard to the abbattoir it was just to get a general feel of what people thought - if it would put most people off - since it seems to then that house will be more difficult for us / her to sell so it makes sense as to why it is so cheap.
She will soon learn what happens to animals as we live in a very rural community - most women I know have husbands who are farmers or have small holdings. At the local auction one of the most popular lots was for a vial of bull's semen!!
Thanks again to everyone for all the comments.

Mojisola

annaj42 wrote: »

The point I was trying to make is that I don't want to leave my daughter a house that is difficult to sell.

Unless you can predict the future, you can't judge this.

I can think of areas that have gone from awful to lovely (and vice versa) over the last fifty years.

teddysmum

nubbins wrote: »

Yeah best to tell your kids that meat grows on trees just in case the little poppets get upset.

You don't appear to like children. Perhaps you're the bogey man.


There is no need to tell them lies but no need to rub their faces in harsh reality, too soon. Let them have some innocence.

getmore4less

Our garden backs onto a residential car park for a block os smaller places.

Been great not overlooked the properties that way are quite far away.

I would not think about the little one having to stay/sell just make sure you get somewhere that is nice to live and can get paid off.

Schools and friends first so somewhere other families will want to live.

marksoton

I'm sorry OP but you really are trying to have your cake and eat it.

Something we'd all like but so many things can change.

Even considering your daughter having sleepovers when she is a baby as a basis for a house purchase is frankly ridiculous.

Let alone her eventual inheritance.

It's bonkers.