I appreciate this might not be the best place to get unbiased advice and I might get shot down but just wondering what others thoughts are on this or if anyone has been in a similar situation and found a solution.
In brief OH and I currently live in a 2 bed detached house, we have a v small mortgage with only 10 years left on it. Our bedrooms are 2 good sized doubles and currently his kids share the second room, they are boy and girl, 3 and 7 and stay with us one weekend night every week.
Last year we put the house up for sale but with no success, lots of viewing but the lack of a driveway put people off and the housing market is currently very slow in our area so we paid a lump sum off the mortgage and decide to wait a year. OH is now talking about putting the house up for sale again next year as he wants 3 bedrooms for his kids to have a room each, he also wants those rooms to be of equal size. I am not against the idea but we both agree that we don’t want to move from a detached house (OH plays piano and guitar and I am up v early for work) and anything 3 bed fitting our criteria will mean more than doubling our current mortgage and adding 5 years to the term, this will mean we will be paying a further £250-300 a month in mortgage payments plus extra council tax heating etc (it will also mean more cleaning for me as OH does bugger all around the house but that is a whole other thread!)
I am concerned it is a lot of extra outgoing money each month in order to have a driveway and the kids to have a room each when the rooms are only used for 10 hours a week and the rest of the time will be sat empty. I have suggested that instead the kids room could be divided somehow with screens or panels (I haven’t looked into the options in detail yet but know they exist). OH isn’t too sure about this and it is only an idea at this stage anyway I just wondered if anyone had managed this successfully?
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Tyersal · 20/09/2019 09:42
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