We jointly own our home and have been looking to purchase somewhere bigger in the near future. We share DC and DH also has two older DC in their teens.
We were talking about new houses the other day and DH basically came out with we need to keep our current house so we have somewhere 'the kids' (basically DSC as they are much older and our DC are toddlers so not likely to benefit them any time soon!) can rent for cheap when they need to with the current situation.
Now technically we could afford to keep this house and purchase another, we don't need the deposit from the sale. However I just feel a bit I don't know put out that DH just seems to have declared this and I'm just supposed to accept it. I don't know what makes me feel opposed to it I guess I just think it's not just up to him to decide we are keeping a house so his kids have somewhere to rent. It is my house too and I actually paid the deposit for it when we bought!
AIBU to think this isn't his decision and I'm right to have reservations and want to actually discuss this and if we did keep the house and rent it out, I think I deserve to have a say whether it's cheaply to DSC or market value to a tenant considering it's also mine.
Our assets are also our shared DCs inheritance hopefully one day and keeping this house could potentially mean we can't afford somewhere as nice as we'd could if we were to sell it.
I don't know, something just feels a bit off about the suggestion and I can't quite place it entirely.