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I'm glad you are done being renters and are going to be moving to your own house! I've also been renting for quite a few years and have bought a property and we are intending to build. I'm very much looking forward to owning instead of renting.

Thursday marked getting the last things from our former residence, and now to finish getting things into place here.
The children are adjusting well, the younger ones loving getting into the powdery dirt in the lean-to shed as a sandbox of sorts.
I've been sleeping better too as the stress decreases!

RZehr wrote:I'm glad you are done being renters and are going to be moving to your own house! I've also been renting for quite a few years and have bought a property and we are intending to build. I'm very much looking forward to owning instead of renting.

A friend of mine, whose name is familiar to all on this board, was inspired by the testimony of Peter Waldo who didn't want to own any property and so he deeded his house to his wife.
My friend (who I think takes much better care of his wife than what Waldo did) decided to follow Waldo's example in this and deeded his house to his wife as well.
I've toyed with the idea of buying a property and deeding it to my wife, but have not yet become convinced that this is what God is asking me or the majority of Christian men to do.

Ernie wrote:

RZehr wrote:I'm glad you are done being renters and are going to be moving to your own house! I've also been renting for quite a few years and have bought a property and we are intending to build. I'm very much looking forward to owning instead of renting.

A friend of mine, whose name is familiar to all on this board, was inspired by the testimony of Peter Waldo who didn't want to own any property and so he deeded his house to his wife.
My friend (who I think takes much better care of his wife than what Waldo did) decided to follow Waldo's example in this and deeded his house to his wife as well.
I've toyed with the idea of buying a property and deeding it to my wife, but have not yet become convinced that this is what God is asking me or the majority of Christian men to do.

That seems like a shell game to me.

If Waldo couldn't convince his wife not to own property, I'm not sure he's going to persuade me.

Did Waldo consider his wife as a non-person? I share my house with my wife, mortgage and all.

Hats Off wrote:Did Waldo consider his wife as a non-person? I share my house with my wife, mortgage and all.

Agreed. Another thought: in the American legal system he will lose the right to live there should his wife die first unless she named him as her sole heir which involves an attorney and legal fees in many places. That would make him an owner yet again should she die first. I'm sure his motives are well meaning but it doesn't seem logical in light of planning for the future in today's American society.

Perhaps he would consider joining the Hutterites if he doesn't want to own property? There the colony owns the property, not its members.

As far as owning property goes - if you think you own a piece of real estate, just try not paying taxes on it for a couple years and see who really owns it!

ken_sylvania wrote:As far as owning property goes - if you think you own a piece of real estate, just try not paying taxes on it for a couple years and see who really owns it!

I was going to say something along that too. Ownership is really nice, but when it comes to land it seems quite true to say that we are only stewards for the time being. Simply taking care of it for the next person. You can't move it. You can't hide it. It doesn't generally wear out like clothes or buildings or equipment.
I'm speaking not in respect to any Bible teaching, just from a human real life perspective.

RZehr wrote:

ken_sylvania wrote:As far as owning property goes - if you think you own a piece of real estate, just try not paying taxes on it for a couple years and see who really owns it!

I was going to say something along that too. Ownership is really nice, but when it comes to land it seems quite true to say that we are only stewards for the time being. Simply taking care of it for the next person. You can't move it. You can't hide it. It doesn't generally wear out like clothes or buildings or equipment.
I'm speaking not in respect to any Bible teaching, just from a human real life perspective.

Absolutely true. It's also a reminder that a fancy home isn't needed, just a weather tight home (coming from an old man who lives in a used motorhome )