The article discusses a couple's struggle with housing decisions after being mandated to move back to D.C. due to work requirements. They recently purchased a home but face potential relocation and rental challenges. Renting their home might not cover the costs, while selling it could result in significant financial loss due to fees. Additionally, finding local jobs isn't feasible since one partner is pursuing public service loan forgiveness. They express concern over managing their personal situation while complying with job relocations.
We could sell our house after only having owned it for three-and-a-half months. This is also a terrible option because even assuming we could find a buyer willing to pay what we paid for the house, we would likely lose most or all of the downpayment that took us a decade to save.
If we move to Washington and try to rent our house, we can only hope to have the rent cover about 60 percent of our monthly mortgage and other costs.
There is also the added complication of trying to be landlords from 3,000 miles away, and the fact that we feel extremely morally ambivalent about being landlords at all.
We obviously don't want to be split up so we are trying to decide on the best path forward of the terrible options we seem to have.
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