I want desperately to buy a house, but we’re about 4 to 6 months away from seriously starting to look. I can’t help myself; I look at homes for sale in our area on the net all the time; I make budget plans, and figure out mortgage rates and down payments, and drag my poor husband out to open houses. I think about the house I want all the time; I’m driving Jim crazy talking about this.
I need a support group of people wanting to buy real estate but aren’t…quite…there yet, so I can bore them to death with my real estate obsession, instead of poor Jim.
I would love to own a home. Property’s expensive here in DC, and I’m not sure I make enough to own one though. I’m going to start looking at options in a few months, though.
My plan is to rent out extra rooms and make mortgage payments that way. We’ll see what happens, though.
My hubby wants to buy within the next two years. We’d be much better off if we weren’t working on paying off his $10k worth of debt. But we really wanna get that all squared away before we get serious about buying.
You sound much more bitten by the bug than we are, though. Budget? Huh? (Which is one of the reasons why we’re a couple years away from buying.)
Here’sone of my favorite houses in the area that’s for sale right now. I’ve been driving by it for years, and now it’s on the market. It’s a leetle bit out of our price range though.
Hmm… almost makes me want to do a google to see if such a support group exists. And why shouldn’t it, there’s one for everything else out there on this here internet.
Seriously, tho, I know where you’re coming from featherlou. I obsessed for most of a year over that before buying my first house. Then, I got the idea of building a house. If you think jonesing to buy a house is big, wait til ya start jonesing on building one. :eek: I am surprised I have any friends at all after that.
I wanna house too. I wanna dog and I want kids, and we can’t really have either in the smallish apartment we’ve got and first we’ve got to pay off some debt and…gad.
Yup. Sign me up. I want a house now. I want storage space. I want my own garden. I want a garage for my car that no one else can pull into. I want to be able to stomp on the floor without worrying about neighbours. Same with doing laundry past 10 pm.
I want to be able to order a pizza and not have the delivery man call me up three times because he can’t find his way around my complex.
That house is a little old for my taste.
We’re looking for something much more modest - just enough for the two of us and our two cats, plus a little room for hobbies and such. We’re in a nice house now (renting from friends, so we’re getting a great deal), but it’s not MINE. I can’t change the yard any way I please, and I can’t repaint and change the carpets and lino, and make everything the way I want it. Jim doesn’t quite understand this - to him, a nice house is a nice house. I’ve always suspected that the females of the human species are the more territorial.
Well, it’s on a busy street, so it’s not at peak value. Five bedrooms, four baths, 3/4 acre lot, etc. in Geist (on the reservoir) will run you $750k minimum. Or you could get into Meridian-Kessler and not even have a waterfront.
When I wanted to buy a house, I started to look in some areas that my GF liked. It was amazing! I couldn’t get an agent to call me back to save my life. I got so frustrated that I just said, F* It, and decided not to move.
Then, five or six months later I special ordered some imported beer from a local cellar. When I went to pick it up, I decided to go home via a road that I hadn’t been on in three or four years to see how much it had changed. I reached Country Club Drive, and I used it to get home everyday, but always picked it up several miles north of where I was that day. Wow! I saw the entrance to the Country Club. I had never seen it before (had no idea where it was) so I decided to drive by and have a look. As I turned into the CC entrance [Twilight Zone Music] it was as if my truck suddenly had a mind of its own. I turned down a little side street into an older established neighborhood. Houses built in the mid '60s - come on now, don’t laugh. This is the Phoenix area and anything built before 1980 is considered “older”. Anyway, it is a beautiful neighborhood. All custom homes on three short cul-de-sacs. There was a house for sale on each of the first two, but I didn’t go down those streets. However, for some reason, I was drawn to the third street. It was like the truck was driving itself. There were two houses for sale on this street and I drove up in front of one and immediately knew it was “my house”. I didn’t know how much it cost, how big it was, or any details, but I KNEW it was mine. [/Twilight Zone Music]
I won’t go into the details, but it was really a miracle that I was able to get that house. That was 7 years ago and I’m still living in it.
