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I've been living with four women. Three of them just left. I should be happy.
August 04, 2026, 05:04 PM
sjtillI've been living with four women. Three of them just left. I should be happy.
The plan worked. We sold our home in San Diego, sold our rental house in San Diego on a 1031 exchange.
For the past 6 months our daughter, her husband and their two girls, ages 8 and 5, have been living in the same rented house as us, in El Dorado Hills, CA.
Selling two houses and buying two replacement properties on the 1031 exchange took a year.
Then there were months spent fixing up the replacement home for our daughter and son-in-law; they are doing most of the work; and they are renting the house from us per the 1031 rules.
Now they have moved most of their stuff to that new house and are going to be living there.
So we had a bittersweet little time together this afternoon with the girls and our daughter. They left with the girls repeatedly calling out "I love you grandma, I love you grandpa."
The past six months have been mostly hectic, and noisy and messy in the common rented house; but we're going to miss it, and we will probably never again be spending so much concentrated time with these two girls, Audrey and Natalie.
It feels like God's grace: undeserved, unconditional love, embodied in little, beautiful, creatures who have become the center of our universe.
But the plan is working: we're living near them again; they have their own home near the charter school the girls attend; and we have money in the bank to buy a house for us near to them.
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“Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. –Daniel Webster (1782-1852)"
August 04, 2026, 05:06 PM
chellim1Sweet!
All is good my friend, all is good ...
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth."
-rduckwor August 04, 2026, 05:10 PM
sjtillThanks, Matt. Always good to hear from you.
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“Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. –Daniel Webster (1782-1852)"
August 04, 2026, 05:32 PM
P-220Congratulations.
What a blessing, for everyone.
Niech Zyje P-220
Steve
August 04, 2026, 05:35 PM
konata88Glad to hear that you're in the calm after the storm. It's nice that you're now able to enjoy the fruits of your recent changes. Hope you can enjoy the coming autumn weather and hopefully no HOA (
) burdens. No ocean but seems like an enjoyable lake nearby.
"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy
"A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book August 04, 2026, 05:37 PM
bdylanI love it when a plan comes together!
August 04, 2026, 07:00 PM
sjtillquote:
No ocean but seems like an enjoyable lake nearby.
The nearest big lake one can kayak on is Lake Natoma, downstream from Folsom Lake. Very nice. However, the community where our daughter's family now lives has a quiet lake big enough for an early morning kayak. I'm looking forward to that!
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“Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. –Daniel Webster (1782-1852)"
August 04, 2026, 08:07 PM
konata88Email sent.
"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy
"A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book August 04, 2026, 09:07 PM
vthokyquote:
Originally posted by sjtill:
It feels like God's grace: undeserved, unconditional love, embodied in little, beautiful, creatures who have become the center of our universe.
But the plan is working: we're living near them again; they have their own home near the charter school the girls attend; and we have money in the bank to buy a house for us near to them.
How wonderful!
Politicians seem to have forgotten that they work for us, not the other way around.
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God bless America. August 04, 2026, 10:03 PM
SeaCliffDon't you love it when a plan comes together.
Good to hear all is well.
August 05, 2026, 09:48 AM
UTsigYou're so lucky to have them near, seems like a perfect retirement.
"Nature scares me" a quote by my friend Bob after a rough day at sea.
August 05, 2026, 10:30 AM
ArtieSSounds like a gift, followed by a win.
Congratulations.
"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."
Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.
August 05, 2026, 10:33 AM
HRKHectic days with them in the house, but it's good times, and, the quiet time you'll have is good as well.
We helped the daughter and her husband buy their first home across town and when the first grandkid was born, helped them sell and move over here just a stones throw away.
So we get the grandkids every day for a bit, and during the summer a bit more, it can get crazy with both of them but it's a good thing.
Enjoy your new found home in NorCal