How many houses have you brought?

@Anne18 (11029)
April 6, 2009 4:39pm CST
We have only ever brought one house and have now lived in our house for nearly ten years now. It was a three bedroom house when we moved in but now we have four bedrooms. We don't plan to move for many years, but I would like to move again but stay in this town. When we moved to buy this house we had to move quite away from our rented house to afford a good house.
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@shell1986 (405)
• United States
6 Apr 09
I've never owned my own house but I am looking forward to looking for them one day! I think the process of house hunting is fun!
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@Anne18 (11029)
6 Apr 09
I suppose it is but we house hunted when our children were 11, 2 and twins of under a year old, not so much fun as we had to take them with us all the time
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• China
7 Apr 09
living in my own house is my dream. now i am in college and will graduate next summer. I have not enough money to afford a house that time. but i will work hard to earn my own house as soon as possible. it is not comfortable linving in rented room! I hope my dream come out soon!
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• United States
7 Apr 09
Same here it is a dream of mine to own a home but right now is not the best time to buy. I plan on buying a home in the next five years or so but you know plans do not always workout. Take care everyone and happy mylotting
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@patialvi (715)
• India
7 Apr 09
i have a dream of buying a house with my own money but its a dream till date. i am living with my parents or you can say, the house my parent bought some 19 years ago. this is a double story building. i am happy although but somewhere i think of having my own house.
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@gemini_rose (16264)
7 Apr 09
We have also only ever bought one house and we are still living in it. We bought it just under four years ago, it is four bedroomed and so is plenty big enough for us all. I think if we ever sold up it would be to move to a smaller house as the kids get older.
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@savypat (20216)
• United States
7 Apr 09
In 50 years we have brought 5 so that averages 10 years in each, but we have been 18 years here so the others were not near 10 years. We have always felt that real estate was our best investment.
@messageme (2821)
• United States
7 Apr 09
The house I live in is the first one I have ever bought. I have only lived in it for two years. I already want to sell it and get a different one, just don't think now is the time, considering the economic situation and my boyfriends jobs is not very steady right now because of being layed off about every other week. It's a three bedroom house and the rooms are huge but I wouldn't mind some more bedrooms, I hate the fact that our kids have to share and don't get their privacy. They are young, but they are so different. One likes a clean room and the other is a very messy person and I don't think it is fair they should have to share rooms when it is not the way they want it. Plus we have three kids in one room and two in another and then the crib in our room and he is about ready to get out of the crib but no place to put him in the other rooms. He would fit with the one with three kids in (when I say big I mean big!) but I really don't want four kids in one room. We already have a problem with them talking and playing when it is bed time. Houses are just way to expensive when you need that many bedrooms! I would love to build my own house but that probably costs even more!
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• United States
7 Apr 09
We have bought five houses in our 42 years together, but plan to stay in the current one, "so long as we both shall live!"
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@GardenGerty (157551)
• United States
6 Apr 09
We, or rather I, with my first husband, have bought two houses. I do not plan to buy any more houses. I do, perhaps, plan to extensively remodel this one.
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@BarBaraPrz (45487)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
6 Apr 09
Counting the one I bought with my erstwhile husband, two houses. On my own, I've bought a condo, then a house, and now one unit in a row house. That makes a total of four housing units that have had my name on the deed.
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@4mymak (1793)
• Malaysia
7 Apr 09
my husband and i have bought 4 houses since 1994.. we have sold two of them, and still own two.. one of which is the house we are living in now.. we have been trying to sell the other one for quite some years, but market condition is very good - and we havent found any interested buyer just yet...
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@kun2349 (23381)
• Singapore
7 Apr 09
I dun have the capability to buy any house on my own at the moment, or even in the near future.. lol =D Much as i wanna have a place to call it my own, but it's far too expensive to buy any house in singapore.. hehe ^_^ I have been living in my present house for more than 20 yrs and i must say it's quite an old estate.. However i do enjoy staying in this estate though as most of my fren are here, and i'm familiar with the surroundings as well as convenient ^_^
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
7 Apr 09
i have bought 3 houses. i don't plan on buying anymore. i have lived here about 15 years. it's home. glad u enjoy yours to.
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@clorissa123 (4926)
• United States
7 Apr 09
Sadly to say, I haven't bought any house for my own yet. I am still living with my parents. How pathetic isn't it? But I still like it, because I can save some money on my own, and I can take care of them the same time. Although some people thought that I should move out to have my own space, but I still love my parent's house.
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@elasolova (144)
• Turkey
7 Apr 09
None. I am still a student. But wait, actually I have a house that came from my parents. But I have not paid for it.
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@cher913 (25782)
• Canada
7 Apr 09
hubby and i have been married for 21 years and when we first got married, we lived in an apartment, after that, we moved into a house that was owned by someone and after they sold it and kicked us out, we bought our first house with money we received from a couple of aunts and have been here for almost 12 years. we would like to move in the near future but have to fix up our house a little first.
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• United States
7 Apr 09
I've had two mortgages, I'm done.
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@TessWhite (3146)
• United States
7 Apr 09
I just recently bought my 7th house. I am hoping it will be my last one. I HATE moving. Some things I've lost over the years with various moves and never found them. I hope this next place (which is under renovation right now) will be the last one I have to move into.
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@bamakelly (5191)
• United States
7 Apr 09
I can't say that I ever bought a house. My family is small and we have had some financial set backs over the years and have only been able to afford an apartment or trailer home. When we lived in the apartments they were small and then we did move a step up to a mobile home where it least there is more living space. I would just love to be able to afford a home outright. Isn't that the American dream? It sounds like you are having an alright time with what you are doing right now and I do wish you luck. My husband works hard and it is still hard to keep up with the bills but we are trying. The chances of buying a home in the near future doesn't seem too promising but you never know what could happen in years to come.
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@besthope44 (12123)
• India
12 Jun 10
Well i wished for a dream home. And i got it recently. I got little amount for it and rest through loan. I am happy i got my dream home near my farm. Investing on home is life long asset for us and kids.
• India
18 Jun 10
lol i have not built any, but i made three, one is renovated and other two built after my retirement, here i live with my wife, kids, grankids happily, hope you must have bought another..bigger.. Thanks for sharing. Welcome always. Cheers. Professor