Were you the first owner of your home?
By rebelann1949
@rebelann (111160)
El Paso, Texas
July 9, 2017 12:57pm CST
I've been going through old discussions when I came across one about the concept of the "grandfather clause" or something to that effect.
What @freelanzer was writing about was how companies will change their benefit packages and how sometimes that has an adverse affect on existing employees. In my case I have a grandfather clause, so to speak, in the deed to my property because I bought it 20 years ago before new laws went into effect.
I have heard the 'grandfather clause' and 'grandfathered' used many times in my work life but I never really concerned myself with what it really was all about...
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@Tampa_girl7 (48927)
• United States
9 Jul 17
We are the first owners of our home in Mississippi.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
9 Jul 17
We are not the first owner of any of our homes, as a matter of fact, we are the third on two of them and fourth on the other. I don't think we have any grandfather clauses.
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@rebelann (111160)
• El Paso, Texas
10 Jul 17
Mineral rights are hard to get in any deed these days @BelleStarr you'd have to inherit an original tract of land from the original owner.
You're lucky to have so much rural property.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
10 Jul 17
@rebelann We have a covenant in Florida and in CT and PA. we are not in subdivisions so I don't think there is anything much in our deeds. Though in PA. I am not allowed to have a well and the mineral rights belong to the people who sold the land originally.
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@popciclecold (35084)
• United States
10 Jul 17
We are the first owners of our home. We bought it in 1994. Still live here.
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
9 Jul 17
I did have a house once where I was the first tenant, but I did not own the house. It was a lovely new house.
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
9 Jul 17
@rebelann Not really Rebel..but it was a lovely designed house but that did me no good as it was a bad neighborhood so I didn't stay.
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@jobelbojel (34729)
• Philippines
12 Jul 17
My grandfather owned the house. It was his family's home for years.
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@rebelann (111160)
• El Paso, Texas
12 Jul 17
That makes sense @jobelbojel but your descendants will always have a part of their ancestors no matter what has been changed.
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@rebelann (111160)
• El Paso, Texas
9 Jul 17
Is English your second language @Sherwinmrtn ?
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@jillybean1222 (6408)
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12 Jul 17
oh boy, i wish.... our house was old when we bought it. but not old in a good way... old in a "we can't afford anything else" way... blah
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@DianneN (246719)
• United States
10 Jul 17
Some homes we owned were brand new and others weren't. The home we are in now was built by the owner of a large lumber company for himself, and has the best of the best woodwork which is impossible to find in new homes now. We also put on a new addition. We love our home. It has five bedrooms!
No grandfather clauses here.
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