Saturday, Mar 22, 2008 at 21:39
Yes, ditto!!!!!!!!
Excellent advice Glen.
We rent all our properties (12) and never to family.
Learnt the hard way.
Wonderful daughter but only 3 weeks rent in two years. Yep that is right, 3 weeks.
I should say in fairness to her, she worked on the farm every moment she could so we did not mind but gee whiz we did buy the house so she would not be paying rent down the drain as they say, but to us so it would eventually become hers anyhow being an only child.
She now stands on her own two feet and pays her way. Thank goodness. She is a daughter to be proud of and we are just that, very proud of her.
No way will we ever rent to her or any other family ever again though.
As for........ you may get sick and not live long enough to enjoy things, well on the other side of the coin you may live to be one hundred (lots do now days) and what will you have if you throw caution to the wind.
I retired at the ripe old age of 51 as did my husband and yes I became an extremely severe asthmatic and also have a very rare disease that only asthmatics get (Churg Strauss Vasculitis) but I still travel (50 weeks of the year) and live life to the fullest that I can.
Sure I have had to stop doing some things love but I have taken to doing other things and enjoy them instead.
You are only ever limited by your own self.
Some crippled people are Olympians.
I go outback as much as possible and I might add that is most of the time. There seems FOR ME to be less problems there than in the towns and cities with the smog, smoke and other infections that walk past me every day in those
places.
So often when in a town I have shocking attacks.
Dust is the big factor in the outback and sure I suffer but not as much as if I stayed in towns ad hospitals as some think I should do.
I carry everything with me and lots and lots of it and keep in touch with both my family doctor and specialist and have things such as satellite phone etc....
We are only after all human and things will go wrong even with the people that think they are healthy. Heart problems could be lingering unknown to many and so on.
Live life, you only get one.
That is a good motto and our daughter, (only child) was born with Cystic Fibrosis and we were told she could not live to be more than ten.
Well she is 32 and living a good life and works, travels and does everything at a thousand revs a second and lives by that motto. She told me that one.
Live life, you only get one.
So do what yo have to, and do it well, regardless if you decide to stay
home, travel or what ever.
Do it and do it as well as you can.
Don't think you could be dead in a week and give up, plan to live a good long life and enjoy it.
It is my opinion that it is not being a chicken to be cautious, it is wise.
Take the time to plan and work out what is best for you both and go with the decision but be prepared to re-adjust the plan from time to time as things change.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
How can any of us tell you what is best when we only know the info about you in the post above. We do not know your full circumstances.
Good luck with the planning and decision making.
Perhaps a good financial planner is another thing to think about investing in to help you get that plan into action.
We don't use one but that is just us, maybe you might wish to.
Does Glen do that or does he know of someone that can assist?
Anyhow I do wish you well, it is a huge decision and not one to be made lightly.
Cheers,
The Wattos.
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