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and paid cash for a house in my old age. It's not perfect; in fact, in needs a hell of a lot of work and we're too old to do the work ourselves, so we just put up with things the best we can. The one thing I have to worry most about is trying to pay the property taxes on it, no mean feat on a couple of smallish SS checks, especially when it coincides with auto insurance payments.

I'm pretty much accepting that at some point we're going to lose insurance on the house. Because of trump's tariffs on Canadian wood during his first administration, the price increase had me jumping to another insurer. This one was at least honest in why the increase in costs, though they did come in a little cheaper than my original one. Said it would take $300,000 to rebuilt the house I bought for 65k. I kept pleading with them if they thought this house was worth that much, PLEASE buy it from me so I could move to a blue state! (LOL)

I'm not complaining, tho. At least I do have four walls and a (leaky) roof over my head and it's mine as long as the taxes are paid. And the insurance company I'm with now is an all female owned and staffed office. It's a heck of a lot better to deal with than I've ever had before.