We just made a pretty radical lifestyle choice which is allowing us to put off the inevitable hassle about Real Estate for a little while. JtS has a short-term contract (less than two months) in the Detroit area. We knew that we probably wouldn't be staying in this area for too much longer, but we're not ready to decide on where we're going to settle. So we're buying a travel trailer and we just bought a van to pull it.

We signed a lease on a lot in a nice little trailer park in Alabama (lower taxes than Georgia), and we gave notice on the apartment we're living in now. We bought a storage shed, which we'll be putting on the lot in the trailer park (right across the street from the manager's office for security).

We'll be living in the travel trailer while we're in Michigan, and then we'll park it in the lot we're renting and live in it in Alabama, using the storage shed for laundry and a workshop as well as storage. That makes us pretty portable, which is a good thing for us right now, and we don't have to make any decisions about where we want to settle, or whether or not to buy a house or continue renting.