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Forever houses | Koehler Law

Forever houses | Koehler Law

by Jamison Koehler on August 25, 2022
Forever houses | Koehler Law

My wife has a record of agreeing to hire or get the to start with location we check out anytime we are searching for a place to live.  

This is wonderful, she claims.  We will consider it.

No, no, no, I answer.  We can not acquire the 1st position we see. 

But we do.  I check out all the other destinations on my own and then determine, alright, my spouse is almost certainly correct.  

If it is not the ideal dwelling objectively talking, it is the great position for us.  

As my sister Mary Anne has place it, it is not as if issues occur for a rationale.  It is that things come about and we discover a purpose.

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About 40 years ago my spouse and I sat in the dwelling area of her team residence in Georgetown.  

We experienced been viewing just about every other for about 4 months at the time.

My spouse reported she always considered her lifetime heading 1 way.  Now she recognized that, owning satisfied me, her lifestyle was heading to be distinct. She realized previously that she was heading to shell out the relaxation of her existence with me.

This was information to me.  I was joyful to hear it.  

My wife suggests that she has adjusted anything in her everyday living but her partner.

I am also grateful for this. 

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My spouse and I have now lived in 15 sites collectively.  We have owned 7 of them.  

The next to final property we acquired, I stood with the real estate agent on the front garden of the initial household on our agenda and told her, even right before we stepped into the residence, that we had been going to acquire that property.  

We did buy that dwelling.

We lived there for a calendar year in advance of we bought our most the latest residence.  And we bought this very last residence – our without end home, the one particular we plan to die in – without the need of my spouse ever owning stepped foot in it.

I monitored the household listings.  I contacted the realtor.  I frequented the house with the real estate agent.  And I negotiated the deal.  

The to start with time my spouse at any time observed the dwelling was at the inspection the working day right before we closed.  

This is best, she said as we drove down the road with the residence coming into see.  Good picking, she informed me.