I'm wondering how old you were when you were able to purchase your first home? Did you start off with something small that was a fixer upper or did you wait and purchase your dream home first?
I'm wondering how old you were when you were able to purchase your first home? Did you start off with something small that was a fixer upper or did you wait and purchase your dream home first?
With a low salary, we couldn't afford even rent when we got married, so in addition to my job, we worked the first 3.5 years of our marriage as assistant managers of a 104 unit apartment complex. No salary; just a 2-bedroom furnished apartment and utilities. Then when I was 28 and got a promotion and pay raise on my regular job, and just before our second daughter was born, we bought a little 3-bedroom, one bath, one car garage, 18 year old wood frame house. In 1968, that house cost us $12,250. After another promotion and pay raise, 4 years later, we moved up to a new 4-bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage home, but was still a small one, and after the next promotion, and 5 years later, we bought another new and much larger 4-bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage home where we stayed until I retired and we became full time RVers for 6 years.
We rented for the first 7 years. First a small, 2 bedroom house with a detached 3 car garage. I miss that little house. Then we moved across the country and lived a 2 bed/1 bath apartment on the 3rd floor. We thought we'd become somewhat rich because our rent jumped $150. We then went to another apartment, 2 bed/2 bath, that was on the 1st floor (our baby was having orthopedic surgery and steps were a killer with the equipment). After about 3 years we rented a 1200 sq ft home, 3 bed/1.5 bath. And, then, after about 3 years, we bought our first home and it was definitely something we settled on. It is not our dream home. It's all brick, has a basement, a garage (a luxury here) and is 62 years old. It has stairs and with our son being an above-knee amputee, we want a one level home. However, we're going on 5 years here this week. We hope to find a better place for us soon.
I owned my first home at 22, but that was only because my then husband (now ex) was older than me and he had owned it for a couple years before I came along. I didn't own another house again until I was 28. Then I sold that one, moved and rented for a while. I didn't buy again until I was 34 and that is the house I am currently in. Now I'm hoping within the next one to two years to be moving again. Hopefully the next time will be the last time and I will finally have my dream house/property.
We started off with this home. I know a lot of people go for their first home (starter home) and then move but I didn't want to do that. I wanted to invest in something that I knew I would keep my lifetime.
We rented the first ten years of our marriage and then a deal came along on a home that wasn't finished that we just couldn't pass up. So we purchased the home and finished it out. We lived in it for approximately 6 years and then we purchased an old, run down home in the country for almost nothing and remodeled it. We are currently living in it.
I bought my first (and only so far) home when I was 35. It is a nice 2 bedroom 2 bath with a 2 car garage. Just big enough for my family and I.
I was 30 when I purchased my first home. It was a small 2 bedroom, 1 bath house but it was mine. I am more comfortable 7 years later with a 4 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage and barn. We will be living here for the next 40 years so I am happy with our choice.
We rented an apartment for the first year we were together then bought my mother-in-law's house. We lived there for 5 years then moved around for about 10 years, mostly renting. We bought our present house 13 years ago. It's for sale so we can move south to a place with enough cleared land for a big garden, some chickens and probably some rescue dogs. We've had a few rescue dogs but only one at a time so far.
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