<prompt> Human: My spouse and I, and our two small children and three dogs, have realized that at some point we are going to outgrow our house. In the next few years we will have to move. We have found a perfect house, larger with a much larger yard. It is unique, designed by its one owner fifty years ago. He has passed away and his children are looking to sell. In many ways it is the embodiment of our dream home. But it looks like it will require a lot of work. Likely needs a new roof. Also, likely has pest issuesfloor problems.We have the money to buy this house, on a contingency sale basis. What we are hoping to get for our house is similar to what we are offering on this house, and our remaining mortgage is about 40 of what we are hoping to get for our house. But we do not have enough to put down the one percent deposit right now without putting all of our groceriesbills for the next month on plastic. That seems like a red flag to me. I have about six thousand in the market I can draw from to pay for expenses and unknowns instead of using the visa, but I am uneasy about going into this. Are these normal jitters or is there more to this?Also, I know that many of you advocate saving for retirement and my spouse and I have both vowed to start doing that next year. So no need to worry about that. And, we usually have a larger rainy day fund, but we have spent about twenty thousand renovating our current home as the decision to move to a larger one is quite recent.Thank you for any thoughts you might have. I appreciate the advice.  <response>: there are more houses in the sea, you are not financially prepared to buy this house. 