<prompt> Human: My fiancée 31F and I 31M are in the process of figuring out our future housing situation and I could use some help from rpersonalfinance. We currently live in a downtown loft apartment where we pay about 2100mo. We are looking to buy a house together after our lease expires next March. We both have jobs we like and have a combined household income around 140kyr. No credit card debt but she does have about 10k in student loans left. We have about 75k in savings. We are getting married next year and plan to start a family in the near future. Previously, I was married for several years before my then wife passed away. She and I owned a house together. Not long after she died I moved out. I still own the house, rented it out for a while, and currently have it on the market to sell. My realtor expects I should make around 125k-150k in profits on the sale after fees and commissions.The house has been on the market for a few weeks and Im now having second thoughts that selling it was the right decision. Since I bought the house in 2010, prices have increased significantly. I paid 250,000 and it has recently been appraised at 400,000.Originally I did not even consider moving back into my old house, thinking that out of respect for my fiancée it would be better to buy a place of our own rather than live in the house my late wife and lived in. However, as we were fixing the place up my fiancée mentioned she now felt personally invested in the house and would be sad once it sold. This makes me feel like maybe we should take it off the market, remodel the house to make it feel more like ours and move back in.From a financial perspective, moving back into my old house feels like a no-brainer. The mortgage is 1600mo and the home is in great shape. It is a 4BR2B with a big yard in a nice neighborhood. The affordable payments would make it much easier for one of us to stay at home when we have kids.Even though I will make a decent profit when my house sells, home prices have risen city-wide so we wont necessarily be upgrading houses because of it. We would prefer to not move further from the city center than where my house currently resides.After re-reading all that I wrote here, I feel this is much more of an emotional issue rather than a personal finance one. Some rhetorical questions Im asking myself: Would moving back into a home a I bought with my late wife be ok with me? Would my fiancée really be ok with it?TL;DR Should I make the financially responsible choice and ask my fiancée to move back into a house my late-wife and I lived in? Or should I sell the house and buy a new place even though it is a highly competitive housing market?  <response>: This is 100 emotional. If you and your wife are both comfortable living there then do it. Ultimately if you move in and decide in a year you hate it and end up selling youre not out much of anything as you planned to sell anyway. 