[quote=desmond]Sell one, move into the other until that home becomes your official residence, then try to sell that one. … [/quote]
I like desmond’s plan the best, paramount. Don’t worry about where to move away to right now. Just wait until your tenants’ lease is just about up and give them 30 days notice to vacate. Then spruce up that house a little and list it vacant.
If your tenants are on a month-to-month rental agreement, then give them a 30-day letter to vacate on May 1.
Don’t move your family and list your primary unless something really does happen with your job. In the meanwhile, try to save as much money as you can.
You’ll have the proceeds from the sale of your rental house in the bank to help you if you need it while you are getting your primary ready to list, listing it for sale and all the way through COE until your stuff is packed up.
If you leave the area for a distant job, I would just rent first in the new area before deciding to buy as you really won’t know at that time if you will like the new job, the new job will like you or if you will like the locale.
Don’t sell your primary and move if you haven’t yet lost your job, that is, unless you don’t mind moving back into your rental and can do so cheaply. Then my former suggestions (above) would be reversed. If you do it this way, you would then be stuck living in your old house if your job was spared and would have the proceeds from the sale of your primary in the bank.
I just remember posts from you that you didn’t really like the neighbors around your rental house when you were living there. Perhaps they have mostly all changed now … the former ones having been foreclosed upon, given keys for cash, or sold short.
