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IrishLasss334
I'll be there soon!
Member since 1/08 6549 total posts
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Patty
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Re: When you bought your first house....
we bought a house we thought we would be in forever, except now we're talking about selling in a few years so DH can be a little closer to his job.
oh well..the best laid plans...
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MetsGirl07
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Member since 12/07 16202 total posts
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Deanna
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Re: When you bought your first house....
we bought a house that we could afford basically... its a small cape.. but we knew we wanted to move once DH retires.. so it was worth it!!
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| Posted 8/11/08 4:08 PM |
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MrsM-6-7-08
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Member since 8/06 4249 total posts
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Nicole
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Re: When you bought your first house....
we bought a smaller house and made it bigger and turned it into a home we can live in for a long long time
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| Posted 8/11/08 4:10 PM |
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MrsBlueSash
Love my sailor
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Christian
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Re: When you bought your first house....
My first house was a condo. I was single and didn't count on getting married. My second was the house we're in now. We bought it knowing its not the forever home, but we're planning on being in it at least 12 years. It has an ok amount of space, great neighbors, and as we make improvements really seems to suit our needs. But we do plan on moving at some point and finding the house we will retire in.
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| Posted 8/11/08 4:12 PM |
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skew
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Re: When you bought your first house....
bought big enough to live in forever if desired but knew i would most likely want to upgrade in the future. location was a huge factor in buying the house. i don't think the privacy of my current location could be easily matched.
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junebride06
love my boys!
Member since 2/08 3181 total posts
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Robin
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Re: When you bought your first house....
we bought a house that we knew we could have a family in and had the potential to expand further if needed, we had to spend more money but we love our house and can't see us moving anytime soon, especially after we've put a lot of work into making it our own
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| Posted 8/11/08 4:21 PM |
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babyfaith
Onward and Upward!
Member since 2/08 3210 total posts
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Re: When you bought your first house....
DH and I bought a house that we could stay in forever if we want to. 
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| Posted 8/11/08 4:22 PM |
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Jenn627
Laaaaaaaambert!
Member since 5/08 9818 total posts
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Jenn
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Re: When you bought your first house....
We bought our forever house (hopefully)...
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steph4777
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Member since 5/05 11726 total posts
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Stephanie
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Re: When you bought your first house....
Our house is definitely a starter. We kinda just decided to buy a house when our lease was up and we found out we were pg.
We bought in Chicago and hope to move to the suburbs in a year or so. We've been in the house almost 3.5 yrs.
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| Posted 8/11/08 4:46 PM |
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Teri
my girls!
Member since 2/06 1491 total posts
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Teri
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Re: When you bought your first house....
We bought our house as a starter home -we figured to be here for around 5-7 yrs. We could dormer and blow it out if we wanted to but I'd rather move.
I'm glad we did because it took us forever to decide where to buy and now we've narrowed down the area we want to buy our trade up house in
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| Posted 8/11/08 5:24 PM |
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Katie111806
Team Pink!
Member since 12/06 5349 total posts
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Katie
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Re: When you bought your first house....
We bought a 5-7 year house. It could certainly be a "forever" house but we hope to be blessed with more children that it can probably fit comfortably (although one of my cousins lives a 2BR house in Sunnyside and is on his 8th child   ). We don't know what the future holds for us but right now, that's the plan.
My parents bought their "starter" house 35 years ago and are still there, but did two major extensions.
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| Posted 8/11/08 6:59 PM |
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MrsD06
LIF Toddler
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Re: When you bought your first house....
We will be looking soon and plan on buying a house that we can stay in if we need to...but we would probably hope to upgrade in the future. My worry is that we will buy a house that's too BIG and end up never moving and never having children (We have no clue if we even want kids right now so it's kind of hard to plan around that) and we'll have this big empty house
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| Posted 8/11/08 7:47 PM |
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Chatham-Chick
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Re: When you bought your first house....
Our home isn't considered a "starter home", but we bought the house with resale in mind.
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| Posted 8/11/08 8:35 PM |
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LisaI
Momma's Little Beans
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Re: When you bought your first house....
We bought our first house knowing we would live there for 5yrs. We lived there for 6yrs. and moved to a larger home (double the size) and plan to stay here for 10-15yrs.
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| Posted 8/11/08 9:27 PM |
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HelenZ
So worth the wait :)
Member since 10/07 2862 total posts
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Helen
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Re: When you bought your first house....
we bought this house thinking we'd be here for a long time, it has lots of potential. but also the fact that it was a fixer/upper, I don't think we wanted to put all this work into it just to leave after getting it how we wanted it.
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| Posted 8/11/08 9:37 PM |
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Tine73
Member since 3/06 22093 total posts
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Re: When you bought your first house....
we bought a bigger house with everyone, but I would still like to upgrade in 7-10 years!
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| Posted 8/11/08 9:50 PM |
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Goobster
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Member since 5/07 27557 total posts
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Re: When you bought your first house....
We bought a house large enough to stay in forever. We knew we might or might not stay.
Turns out, after being here 5 years and redoing the whole house, it just doesn't cut it for us for a lifetime. Our needs and wants have changed so we plan to move.
But yes, we did buy in case we had or chose to stay forever.
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| Posted 8/11/08 10:31 PM |
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SweetTooth
I'm a tired mommy!
Member since 12/05 20105 total posts
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Lauren
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Re: When you bought your first house....
Ours is a starter house, but it does have the potential to expand. We will re-evaluate in a few years and decide which is better for us - to buy a bigger house or to expand the one we have.
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