I am a hard house freak and I don't care who knows.
I have some property. We have a few acres, so I like working on it, whether it's cutting stuff down, cleaning stuff up, building steps, or working with concrete, you know, brickwork.
Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep, create tensions and interfere with the watching of baseball games, and sprout insolent signs ordering humans to keep off it.
You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process.
I'm always working on our home, but I want to keep the old look to it.
With my own home, I feel like I'm the mechanic who drives a crappy car. I never have time to work on my own home.
I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
If you can't afford the upkeep of your home, it makes no sense to do a reverse mortgage. You will just end up having to sell eventually when you realize you can't afford the home, and whether you have any equity left after the sale depends on the size of the reverse loan that must be settled.
For most people, their home is their most valuable asset. Yet most of us don't take care of it.
