Real estate
My husband loves to invest in real estate. Me not much! How do I convince him to sell the investment homes, pay off one home in California and live a peaceful life. We have two homes in California and one in Texas.
You need to align on your goals and desired lifestyle. The investment strategy is just the tactic. But you seem to have a disconnect in how you want to live your life. Unless you have your husband’s buy in on the targeted lifestyle he won’t agree to completely change his investment strategy that seems to be focused on a different set of goals than yours.
We didn’t buy homes with an intention to rent. Our first home was a condo that became small for us when our 2nd child was born. We moved into a bigger or do we thought. The 3rd home was investment that we bought during pandemic…basically lost our mind staying home. Now I want to consolidate our assets and pay off our primary home. Now when I say this, I think I lost my mind.
My point is, why do you want to do that. Financially it doesn’t make sense especially if you have no mortgage or low interest locked in. Leverage will usually work in your favor. These are the questions to ask yourself and your husband, your why. What are you optimizing for. Of course also depends which markets you invested in and if they are growing etc.
Don't overthink it.
Are you making money on these homes? What is the issue?
Issue is op’s dumb logic, read other threads
We r making money on these homes. I’m just too stressed out to worry about rental investments, jobs, husband, kids and other stupid stuff. Like I said in my earlier response to faanguru, I think I’m losing my mind. It just doesn’t make sense but as long as we have that home in Texas, the topic of my toxic sister and my husband asking me to patch up with her will keep coming. He just doesn’t understand how toxic she is. She has lighted, manipulated and lied about me behind my back for over 40 years. I got to know all these right around the time we were in contract and my parents passed away(about the same). Grief mixed with emotion, we made the stupid decision of buying that home. I want to sell that home and atleast reinvest.
Stop making stupid decisions