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Our apartment went onto the market today and already there has been calls about it. When we set out initially, we weren't going to use an agent and instead do it ourselves to save about 4000 euros (20,000 STEEM) in fees, but we chose to take the agent of the house we are buying - a strategic move that gave us a win-win situation where he has stake in both sales. We have our fingers crossed it will move quickly with the first showing this weekend, as the earlier we can get into the other place, the faster we can start planning the renovations, as some of the things take two months to order. 

We also got the inspection report back that was done last Friday on what we are looking to buy, an important thing considering that it is an older house built at a time where construction wasn't great. Thankfully, there was nothing major that came up and the independent inspector even said to my wife that he himself would buy this house as the condition is very good overall. There are obviously plenty of things that require work, but structurally it is sound and there is no moisture where there shouldn't be. 

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@paulag asked [What's your Steem selling price?](https://steemit.com/hive-167922/@paulag/whats-your-steem-selling-price) and while  have said it before, I always seem to land on the 10 dollar mark. However, circumstances change and for example, if I needed money earlier than that for vital home things or if my family got ill and needed money, that might change.

Also, I don't see my entire Steem holdings as the same. While STEEM is fungible, meaning any one STEEM can be interchanged with another with no difference between the two, that is not how I experience it. What I mean by this is that there is the Steem I have worked for through the way I use my account, and the Steem I bought from exchanges from people who were kind enough to sell it to me cheaply. 

While many might not agree, the way I earned the Steem influences my attachment to it and in both of the above cases, *I did earn it.* Buying Steem isn't some magical process where fiat just materializes, the money has to come from somewhere and there is an opportunity cost to use it to buy Steem instead of say, food at the store. Now, I would never personally buy Steem at the expense of my family's dietary needs, but I would skip buying unnecessary items for myself on occasion and using the difference for investing.

Over the last year I have added a fair bit of Steem (and other cryptos) into my portfolio from external sources, and to do so I have worked long hours and gone without some extras. I think the reason I might treat this Steem differently than what I have earned on the platform is that what I have earned here has come from the community, whereas what I have bought from the exchanges has not. While the amounts I am talking aren't massive, me buying Steem does lower the liquidity slightly as I locked most of it up. 

It is interesting when people talk about the buying of Steem and powering up as if it is the easy way to do it, as while it maybe for some, it definitely hasn't been for me. There is risk of loss in buying in and while people look at it from the money perspective, the fiat I have used has come from working two full-time jobs and in conditions that are far from optimal for having anything extra to invest with at all. And the little I could scrape together would be insignificant pretty much *anywhere else but crypto.* When I buy with fiat, I am also using buying with the time and energy it took to earn it as well as the opportunity cost of spending it. 

I find that this Steem is more "investment STEEM" due to this and therefore, has *less* emotional attachment for me as buying and selling on exchanges is a cold business - *which is why I think that a lot of the "investors"are so poorly aligned with the social community.* As silly as this sounds, this means that I am happier to sell this externally earned Steem at a lower price than what I have internally earned, even though technically, STEEM is STEEM. 

So, what is my price? as said, I generally talk and think of 10 dollars, but I am unlikely to sell out of my stake unless something quite severe came up personally. Even with no monetary value, Steem still has utility as a social token, like Reddit Karma points. But, I would consider selling some of what I have bought sooner than that *if* I felt that I needed it or it would make a significant difference in my life.

I am a pretty simple person and while I don't mind a gadget or two, I do not have to be surrounded with luxury and ease of living. If I did, I wouldn't be buying an old house that needs major renovation work that I am doing a lot of myself. I like earning my place in the world, whether it be writing for Steem, working for fiat, building a home or being a good husband and father - it is earned and *it is owned.* 

While the outcomes of my work can be bought, sold, lost or taken away - the work I have done will always be mine. 

Taraz
[ a Steem original ]

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