OK, housing dilemma time, would appreciate thoughts/feedback. We will probably know tomorrow if the developer is going to make us an offer we can't refuse. We have seen literally scores of houses and are down to two we are thinking seriously of:
House #1. Insanely expensive and with really high property taxes. We would probably be financing around 300K and paying 11K in property taxes. Huge, beautiful house (way, way huge--almost 6000 sf) in lovely neighborhood with a community pool. Same school district. Nice but not overwhelming view. Did I mention it's HUUUUUUGGGGEEE? (And there's already a nice Story & Clark spinet in the basement that they'd probably leave since the rest of the house is empty, LOL).
House #2. A dump with a view, as I called it. Absolutely stunning view. House is quite small and reeks of cigarette smoke. Everything from the carpet to the kitchen to the bathrooms needs to be redone plus we would probably end up putting an addition on to it to make it roomier. However, we could buy it outright and end up probably financing at least 200K in remodelling. Property taxes around 7K. Less desirable neighborhood, different school district, but close enough to drive kids to current schools. Plus we'd have to live through yet another remodelling project, this one pretty darn major.
WWHHWD? (What would HHW-ers do?).