8 Houses in 8 Years

We have owned 8 houses in 8 years of marriage.  We have only lived in 7, however.  They are: the Fort House, the Colcord House, the Sweet Clover House, the Fishers Run house, the Cumberland house, the Maple house and the Rainbow Lake house.  The eighth house, which we count as owning, but never lived in, was the house next door to our Colcord house.  We built two houses at the same time and again, whichever sold first, we would move into the other.  So, we lived next door to a house that we built, so we like to count that one as "ours" too.

I'd have to say that every house we've owned is a favorite, except the Cumberland house.  I think this house has too many traumatic memories:  just moving back from Michigan and living in it while the entire downstairs was completely remodeled, my husband was gone for a month for work while the remodeling was being completed, and one of our dogs died during that month too. We only lived there for 7 months, which is the second shortest time we've lived in a house.  We lived in the Colcord house 5 months before we sold it to move to Austin (Sweet Clover house).

Crazy, yes, but moving and remodeling, and buying and selling houses has definitely been an overall blessing in that it has provided income and partly allowed us to build our dream house earlier than I ever thought.  Would I do another 8 houses in the next 8 years?? N.O.  no.  Definitely not with multiple kids, either.