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[quote=Anonymous]Agree with PP, you are a good person and a good parent.  Add to this, and your sons know that.  So first, relax a little about this!  You really can't go wrong.

Except--in one way--leaving the house vacant.  I inherited my dad's little house in a city 2.5 hours drive away from me.  I can tell you now, don't leave the house vacant.  It's a free-standing house! and all it takes is for the local pizza guy to leave a door hanger advertisement on the door knob for a couple days for people driving by to figure it out.  Or, in that town, periodically the newspaper would have a special edition, and for that, they would blanket everyone on the block, not just newspaper subscribers.  Nothing like a yellowed newspaper in the driveway to give you away.

I ended up renting it out.  You can always try it for a year or build that into the contract.  Honestly, since you are going so far away, I'd pay for a company to manage the rental.  Consider it an investment so you don't get that 3am plumbing wake-up call.

Anyways, years before the inheritance, I had bought a small condo near that house.  The condo--I leave empty.  It's easy.

We're near retirement age, and DH wants to do a snowbird situation, and he totally doesn't get this concept--he wants two free-standing houses.  No way. [/quote]

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