I guess this happens to most everybody as they age.
There comes a time when one much pare down their lives.
For my wife and I, that time came when we recently decided to sell the house we raised our family in. However, doing the paring down and talking about it are two very different things. My wife and I would stay up late talking in the air conditioning about how great it would be to be free of all that house. And it was a really big house where we raised four kids. But once they were out making their way in the world, that house was empty. It just took too much energy to keep it up. So when the real estate prices skyrocketed, we knew that it was time to make some upgrades and sell the house. The first thing we tackled was the heating and cooling equipment. This made sense considering that the HVAC equipment was really just hanging on by a thread at that point. In fact, when the HVAC technician told us it was time to make an HVAC replacement plan, that’s what started the whole process for real. Prior to that, we had been talking about selling. But having to replace the HVAC unit meant that it was time to start the upgrades and get the house on the market. The new HVAC technology we went with makes where I’m living now even tougher. We put the very latest in residential HVAC into that house. I got to live with it for nearly 6 months. Now, we’re in a rental and this heating and cooling equipment isn’t even close to what we just had.