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[quote=Anonymous]^^ Me again ^^

Now that I've read through these opinions & had time to let it saturate, I'd be curious to know your thoughts on our living situation....

Late last year we were casually looking at homes for sale & we found one that we absolutely loved in a great (comparable) neighborhood that's less than a mile away from our home.

We quickly placed our house on the market, as we were concerned that we'd get stuck paying two mortgages if ours didn't sell right away... well, it did.  We also made an offer on the other home & after some additional bids from other buyers, the homeowners accepted our offer.

Our home also had a few offers and we accepted one we felt great about & went into contract.

To make a long story short... the sellers backed out of our deal at the 11th hour for financial reasons, however our home went into closing & sold a few days before that (we genuinely liked the family buying our home & we didn't want to screw them over the way we had just been, so we just moved).

Instead of panicking & trying to find something else to buy right away, we decided to rent a house in the same neighborhood we almost bought in (a great family neighborhood consisting of about 300 homes surrounding the local elementary school). We signed a lease for one year & have the option to extend if we'd like.
I just felt better giving ourselves the time to rationally find a home that we'll love, rather than grabbing something we're not entirely sure of out of fear that we'll have nowhere else to go.

We lived in our previous home for 10 years, so most people know that we owned it because we did extensive renovations when we first bought it.  Nobody has asked us the dreaded "why" would we move less than a mile away & into a smaller rental (they may not know it's a rental though as it's still a SFH, but I guess if they were curious enough they could check Zillow & see).  Although, my daughter used to ride the bus but now she's a walker, so plenty of friends/classmates/parents see us walking home & in the opposite direction from our previous home every day.

I'm friendly with everyone, but I work from home so I never have the time to stop & chit-chat at pick up with the other moms. That being said, I've never really been stopped & asked WHY we moved to a rental/ smaller home, etc.

Now reading about this ridiculous stigma some people attach to rentals, apartments & TH's, I'm honestly curious if there are assumptions being made as to why we moved out of a home that we've owned for 10 years & into a rental?

I don't care what they think either way - I'll still sleep sound tonight.
However, because this mindset is so far removed from my own, I'm just curious as to the thought process of those who do attach this stigma to apts/rentals?
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