For a couple of months now Jay and I have been looking at buying a house. Now I should say that Jay and I are on a budget that we made for ourselves so we are pretty much a cash only kind of couple. Now we both understand that big purchase like a house or car can not be paid with by cash. We could only wish we had that much money but sadly we don't. At the same time as we were house hunting we needed to talk about the fact that there is a pretty big possibility that we will be moving back to Utah within the next three years or so. So we really didn't want to spend a lot on house we would only be in for three years. As we looked around in the price range we thought of we never found anything we liked or feel in love with. We wanted something that we could also fix up at little and make a bigger profit with to have more money to move back to Utah with. As we kept looking the possibilities of us having our own place began to look pretty dim. We even thought of just staying in our apartment. I loved our apartment it was so cute but the loud people downstairs and the yucky smells were not so cute. Plus why pay $7140 a year to a place you can't call your own.
Out here in New Brunswick Canada a lot of couples start off in what I call a trailer but what they call a starter home or mini home. This was so not an option for me. I was NOT going to live in a trailer park. There's far to much of a stigma that goes along with them and I didn't want to be attached to that stigma. I thought I cared about what people thought of me. What would my friends say if I lived in trailer? What would they think of me? Will they still like me? Will they come to visit me even though I live in a trailer park? Those are the things that went through my head.
One day Jay was looking on kijiji, as he does every night, and he came across a trailer that was for sale for only 10,000. He got excited about it and told me that it has new kitchen cabinets, new flooring, new siding, new skirting, new electric and that drywall had been put up and painted in the trailer. We should really go see this he says to me. I say okay but just to make him happy. I always want him to be happy! So off we went to look at this trailer. As we drive up I think to myself oh man what the heck am I thinking!! We pull into the driveway and I look at the outside of it and see its okay looking. The roof needs some work and there's rust on the siding but that can be easily fixed. My father in law is the all pro handy man he can help fix that. Then we walk inside and I see that it actually looks really nice but its still a trailer I kept telling myself. The lady shows us around the trailer. Not very hard so its 64 feet long by 14 feet wide. haha. "I live in a 14 wide" says the drunk man to a rat. haha. That's what goes through my head. The lady, Verdi, tells us the story of the trailer and all that she went through for it. It was a lot!! It was a repo and the guy who did own it tore it apart. Smashed doors, ripped up floors, took an ax to the walls, pulled out and cut all the wires, the list could go on. Verdi had to live here three days with no electricity. YIKES! After we left Jay asked what I thought about it so I told him. I liked it but there such a stigma about it. We talked about that and a lot of other things. The time came to make a real choice of what I wanted to do. Jay was all for it. It was all on me. I told mom about it and my best friend Becky and really talked to them about the stigma that comes with living in a trailer park. I then talked to Jay about it again. He talked to me about the fact that in one year we could have it all paid off and save like crazy for a house to raise our family in and then when we resell it after all the fixing we could do to it we can get even more money in our pockets. I had a lot to think about. Could I become a trailer own. NO! But I can become a home owner. A home to me is where I can come and feel comfortable and loved and where most importantly Jay is. So no I wouldn't be a trailer owner but I would be a home owner even if it meant that lived in trailer.
So now here I am a month later sitting on my new leather couch in my own home that just happens to be a trailer. And guess what? I love it and I'm so happy!!!! There's definitely work to be done on our new home and I'm okay with. So what if my so called friends will think less of me or if they don't like me anymore because of it or if they themselves think they can never live in a trailer. Because here's how I think of that: 1) they're not my real friends 2) and if you can't live in a trailer with your husband to save money for your future then maybe you should rethink your priorities. Now that's my opinion so don't go getting your panties in a wad if you don't like it.
I love my new home and the thing I love about it most is that its the start of a great future with my amazing husband who I love so much!!
*picture to follow soon. :)
