Selling your first home/ Analysis Paralysis

[Kate B.]

I am looking for guidance and views on a problem that has bedeviled me.    The numbers can work any way, renting or selling or keeping and renting out rooms -- three options.    I have spent countless hours --- my own version of analysis paralysis -- trying to decide.   Every time I make a decision, I "wear it" for awhile and change my mind.

My very first home is in a city where all my family is within 15 miles.   I am semi-retired from my small law practice, and most of what's left is within an easy drive of this house which is close to highways in all directions.   Great location, in eastern NY.

My life is taking me away from this.   For the past three years the work that interests me most is two hours east, in MA.   After not finding a place to rent for myself and two dogs, I bought a 3 family home and live on one floor.  (Right now, I have people I hired fixing it up.)

I just don't know how much I will need a home in the first place, and what options I have that are different than what I outlined.

My questions are:

1. How to stop analysis paralysis?

2.  Is there an option I missed?

Thanks for reading and being willing to respond to a big problem for me that doesn't matter at all for the world.