Game Changers and Decisions

So I have been presented with an opportunity to manage a seasonal hotel in our area. It would mean completely putting the rest of my life on hold for six months and focus solely on the hotel.

Now it should be said that I've done this job once before for the same boss at a different hotel and I still work front desk for him. The last time I did this job it was horrible and I don't really expect it to be any better this time.

I'm going to do it anyway and here is why:

• It moves our house plan up to Spring 2016.
• It will eliminate all of our debt except for the house and Hubby's truck.
• It would set us up to focus on getting the farm up and running and getting our businesses up and running (I haven't talked about those yet) and get us out punching a clock a few years sooner. 

This job is, in fact, a game changer. It is going to suck so bad.

I'm going to blog through it, mostly because if I don't I won't remember it.

So for the next year or so, probably starting pretty soon, hotel management posts are going to pop up from time to time. I'm also probably going to spend this winter writing some filler so if the timing seems off on some posts, that's why.

Hubby and Dad (my dad) actually want to build the house next year. We would build the house with Dad's money and then pay off what we're going to pay off and mortgage the house to finish the house and pay back Dad. I'm not really in favor of this plan for a couple of reasons:

• I want to BE there and if we build next summer I won't be. 
• I don't think its going to be easy to pay off my student loans, I think its going to take two months of wrangling to get everyone to agree that they are paid off. So it could take months after the initial loan to pay off my Dad.
• The money from my Dad won't finish the house. It be a couple of months before we can get the mortgage to finish the house, in the meantime we're 'homeless' (all of the work that would be left is inside work and could be done in the middle of the winter).

If we do it the way we are planning this thing right now we will build in the Spring of 2016. This would mean:

• No money borrowed from my parents. 
• A whole winter to get everything in order both financially and logistically. 
• We would just stay in our current apartment until we moved into our house in the Fall or early Winter of 2016. This means one move and we don't have to worry about storing all of our stuff. We would also not have to some time, possibility a whole winter, living with my parents. 

So there are a lot of decisions to make and a lot to prepare for in the next couple of months when I started this blog I expected it to grow and change as life changed but I didn't expect it to be quite this dramatic.