Hi all Very long time no chit chat, hope everyone is doing well!
Looking for some input...
RE Taipan and I are considering leaving southern CA and moving to property we own in Chicago to lower expenses. We'd cut them to a $1,000 or perhaps a little less a month..our net income is about $6,000-$8,000 a month...the variation comes from ebay sales. The downside is this is would be a huge downgrade in living, we live on the pacific ocean, its warm, safe, and the schools are fantastic for my kiddo. The house in chicago is in a working class suburb, very blue collar, schools suck, and the house has been a rental..it is a huge 3+ bedrooms, 2.5 baths, inlaw apartment, attached garage and workshop off the garage and large fenced in backyard, it brings us a little over $500 a month in cashflow when rented..tenants just moved out. So the house is available. It seems like a no brainer but I'm fearful that we will get stuck there. Part of me believes that our expenses should not be stopping us and that even if we free up some cash it still won't be enough and we could be stuck in what I call the "gates of hell" for 5 years or more trying to make this happen...I could suck it up for 2 years, maybe 3 years but anything beyond that I don't think so. The big issue is that the schools suck and my kiddo has asperger's and has tons of social skills needs, he is in the gifted and talented program with a great IEP, and is working well above grade level. What would be his neighborhood school in chicago barely has a 70% proficient rating on state exams, his current school is CA has a 98% proficienecy rating on state exams and is a blue ribbon school. Homeschooling is out, he needs the structure of the school environment plus I'd need to work...so we have to consider private school which will push our expenses up..perhaps close to what they are in CA. Our pay would stay the same as RE Taipan's job is done online fron anywhere and I'm an RN and work as an independent contractor so I set my price. I was also considering the possibility of turning part of the house in chicago into a preschool/daycare..I have a degree in early childhood education and also being a nurse I think would be an added safety feature for parents. Anyway not to get to far off track I guess my question is..have any of you really downsized in order to free up cash to invest? Like moved to a not so great area from a great one in order to do it? iIm so torn and obviously if we can't rectify the school issue we will just have to suck it up here in CA until he is out of school because I simply can't have him in that neighborhood school. So What would you do?
Looking for some input...
RE Taipan and I are considering leaving southern CA and moving to property we own in Chicago to lower expenses. We'd cut them to a $1,000 or perhaps a little less a month..our net income is about $6,000-$8,000 a month...the variation comes from ebay sales. The downside is this is would be a huge downgrade in living, we live on the pacific ocean, its warm, safe, and the schools are fantastic for my kiddo. The house in chicago is in a working class suburb, very blue collar, schools suck, and the house has been a rental..it is a huge 3+ bedrooms, 2.5 baths, inlaw apartment, attached garage and workshop off the garage and large fenced in backyard, it brings us a little over $500 a month in cashflow when rented..tenants just moved out. So the house is available. It seems like a no brainer but I'm fearful that we will get stuck there. Part of me believes that our expenses should not be stopping us and that even if we free up some cash it still won't be enough and we could be stuck in what I call the "gates of hell" for 5 years or more trying to make this happen...I could suck it up for 2 years, maybe 3 years but anything beyond that I don't think so. The big issue is that the schools suck and my kiddo has asperger's and has tons of social skills needs, he is in the gifted and talented program with a great IEP, and is working well above grade level. What would be his neighborhood school in chicago barely has a 70% proficient rating on state exams, his current school is CA has a 98% proficienecy rating on state exams and is a blue ribbon school. Homeschooling is out, he needs the structure of the school environment plus I'd need to work...so we have to consider private school which will push our expenses up..perhaps close to what they are in CA. Our pay would stay the same as RE Taipan's job is done online fron anywhere and I'm an RN and work as an independent contractor so I set my price. I was also considering the possibility of turning part of the house in chicago into a preschool/daycare..I have a degree in early childhood education and also being a nurse I think would be an added safety feature for parents. Anyway not to get to far off track I guess my question is..have any of you really downsized in order to free up cash to invest? Like moved to a not so great area from a great one in order to do it? iIm so torn and obviously if we can't rectify the school issue we will just have to suck it up here in CA until he is out of school because I simply can't have him in that neighborhood school. So What would you do?
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