All In

We’ve sought much advise before we put our house up for sale. Some have said to keep it while others advised to sell it, and we were looking for the best and wisest thing to do when we ran across this story in The God Ask.

The year was 1517, and Hernando Cortex and his three ship of soldiers sailed from Spain to Conquer and claim Mexico for his country. When they finally arrived in the Mexican bay, small boats ferried all the soldiers to the shore to prepare for an inland march to the capital city of the Aztec Indian empire to defeat King Montezuma and his forces. Once all the soldiers were on shore, Cortez then motioned for a few men to row back out to the ships. As the soldiers watched, their curiosity turned into horror as the men lit torches and threw them onto the decks of the three ships. The soldiers stood speechless with eyes and mouths wide open as they realized they would never again see their home country or families. They had no choice now but to turn, follow Cortez into the heat of the battle, crush the enemy, and win the war. There was no turning back. They either had to go “all in” or not at all. -The God Ask

While keeping the house would keep that equity building for the future, it would also provide a host of ‘distractions’ that would at times certainly take our focus off of Chile and provide an all too convenient fall back plan if the going gets rough.

We want to be All-In. So we sold!