Category: Real Estate

Why we chose to pay more to live close to work

Mrs.S March 14, 2017 2 Comments
In most of the big cities around the globe people live around 20-30 Km away from where they work. There are many reasons for this decision but one of the most important one is rents are higher closer to work than 20Km away. When we shifted to the new expensive city we also had to make the same decision. We considered our options at length and came to a few conclusions: None of us wanted to spend...

Real-Estate followup: Was buying a house right decision?

Mrs.S February 10, 2017 2 Comments
Last month I did a post about buying a house and in the comments we discussed whether we were crying over nothing. We also started looking into real-estate as a potential income source. So we decided to do a bit of follow up on that. The background When we bought our property in 2013 we took out a 10 year loan which we equated in April last year. Since then we have run the numbers and invested a...

Was buying a house right decision?

Mrs.S January 16, 2017 4 Comments
It is common knowledge that we own a flat back in our old city and we have made considerable progress in paying off the mortgage. However every now and then I am forced to rethink if we made the right choice. There are a lot of things we did right (and wrong) but was that the best thing we could have done with our money. Was Buying a house worth our hard earned money? This is the question we want...

Becoming a Landlord- Lesson Learnt

Mrs.S September 15, 2016 4 Comments
August for all means and purposes was a good month and if September could take a cue from that it would be nice. You can read our monthly update here. In August we found a tenant and became landlords ourselves. Renting without an agent We are the kind of people who forgo services of agents and other service providers for renting. We do this for two reasons. Firstly, it saves us some money (quite...