When faced with a stressful situation which the results of will depict your future living arrangements avoiding the negative thoughts can be difficult.
Recently I have been spending a lot of time searching for housing, we now have somewhere to live yet during the times of searching I found myself becoming more concerned and further depressed as time passed.
I have been living on my own since I was 18, completely independent, unlimited opportunities, and my whole future ahead of me. The housing markets have changed here in British Columbia since then, now we have more demand than there is supply and not just housing. The availability of work has the same complications with many people looking and few good jobs available.
All of this added to my stress levels, I had never been faced with not being able to find housing before! Further complicated by the fact this was our first eviction and with having a deadline quickly approaching the time passing with little hopeful responses to applications had my worries mounting! This is where those thoughts of what if started flooding my mind.
We looked at all our options including buying a trailer and renting a year round spot. Yet with the increase in rental cost that seems to be in even higher demand with multi year waiting lists going. Looked at rent to own, if we not gonna be able to save for a down payment mind as well start that investment into our future using the increase of rent. This seemed promising till we realized the rules of the “strata” will influence how we live our lives.
Those thoughts of what if complicating the clarity of my thoughts and diminishing my hopeful nature....
WHAT IF?
- we can not afford the place we like? what are we willing to sacrifice?
- we have to quit smoking to get it? will we quit smoking cannabis also?
- we have to live in a trailer? what will we do during the increased lot price during the on seasons? what about all our stuff? Is it cost effective vs comfort?
- we don’t find a place at all? where will we go? where will we work? do we try commute for hours just to maintain “good paying” jobs?
- do we even want to be in Victoria? Why stay here if we cannot get ahead?
- will we have to live as house guests?
Our goal living where we are has been, first to pay debts(nearly there) second to save for down payment(Mel has started) on our first place we own. It’s small but private and comfortable and we have become accustomed to living frugally.
Everything was getting to a breaking point for me! Years of working to get caught up looking to get ahead all coming to a halt due to a situation completely out of my control, our landlords sold their house! Looking back I realize now the thoughts were a little bit of exaggerated outcomes but I have always been one to prepare for the worst case scenario. In my mind during that stress my view was from the perspective of the worst case thinking “I have been struggling for years to correct my financials only to have that opportunity taken away from me!”
I was mentally preparing myself to end up as a house guest, couch surfer, parking lot vagrant, thoughts of offgrid life even...
Now I am happy to report, the negative thoughts are gone with successfully finding a place and I’m focused on my future once more! This opened our eyes to the most likely housing purchase we will get, rent to own.
Going forward we intend to do two things, continue eliminating debt and saving for a down payment on our own place and start watching for rent to own options that will work for us!
Isn’t it interesting how life’s stresses often lead us into the next leg of our futures?
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