Living With HIV / Re: "HOPE DIES LAST"
« Last post by leatherman on Today at 10:12:02 am »I was going to die, then I go and get a mortgage for 30 yearsMy first partner and I signed a 15-yr land contract. By that point, I knew Randy wasn't going to making it very long and figured I wouldn't either. It seemed like a fine deal to us as dying 30yr olds. At least we'd have a home while we got sick and died; but we've never have to worry about paying off the land contract.
However, even though Randy passed away a year later, I survived and lived there for another 14 years through a few roommates to help pay the bills. The home we were supposed to die in become the home I was going to pay for and own. Unfortunately, and the bad part of a land contract, my landlord took a two week late payment (I had just been in the hospital dying, and then not dying of pneumonia) to end the contract, screwing me out of the house - but leaving me able to move in with my second partner, which did turn out to be a good thing out of a bad situation.
Larry and I has some conversations about that old situation of mine when we were coming up on signing the mortgage for the house we live in now. At the end of this mortgage I'm going to be 87. Even though I joke and hope about living until 104 like my grandmother, there is the possibility that I won't make it that long. So twice now I've signed papers for a home and mortgage that I might not live to fulfill. At least this time I'm expecting old age not AIDS to be the reason.