thread: Would you buy your childhood home?

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  1. #1
    BellyBelly Member

    Feb 2007
    On the beautiful Gold Coast!
    1,930

    I love our first family home & our second one.

    Our first one I would buy if it was in a different position (its in a small country town that I was born in & I'm now a city girl LOL) but I do love the house itself.

    The second one my parents still own & rent it out. I would most definately buy this home if I won lotto (its worth around 900,000 so I could never buy it on my own ) Its in a great area & has sooo much potential! Also the great memories I have of growing up there are a bonus.

    hmmmmm so there's no chance I'll ever be buying either of my childhood homes

    I say if it suits your needs, you can afford it & if its what you want then go for it!!! You lucky thing!

  2. #2
    Registered User

    Dec 2008
    8,986

    I wouldn't becuase it's way too small and I don't like the area anymore. I much prefer where I live now.

  3. #3
    Registered User

    Jan 2008
    Country Victoria
    1,991

    I would buy our first family home which was the first home my parents ever bought. It is in a small-ish country town and I loved living there, it was on a big block, 3 bedrooms, 2 living areas, it seemed big at the time. I was 7 when I moved, we moved to another country town but I did not like this house at all. The first house is the only one that I would conside buying, I wonder if it was because I was so young and things seemed so simple back then?

  4. #4
    Registered User

    Jan 2009
    hiding under my desk!
    1,432

    No...
    but i will inherit it when they die(well half of it)
    although i will sell my half to my sister.
    then i wont have to deal with all the crap thats in it...
    my parents have been in the same house for over 30 yrs

  5. #5
    Registered User

    Mar 2007
    Paradise
    4,473

    I would. The house I spent most of my childhood in was a great house. Mum and Dad had it built when I was 4 and it has 4 decent bedrooms and 2 living areas, and no high cupboards!! The pantry is HUGE and I dont have any really bad memories there. Dad is a big fan of sheds, so there is a double garage, plus a 2 car shed, plus a garden shed, but there isn't much lawn area. It also has a lovely slow combustion fire which is mesmerising!! It is now owned by the SA government so it might take a fair while for it to come on the market again.

  6. #6
    Registered User

    Mar 2006
    soon to be somewhere exotic
    1,550

    I would buy the block of land we had in the blue mountains but I'd not buy any of my childhood homes

  7. #7
    Meo Guest

    The first home I ever lived in I don't remember, but I couldn't buy it because it was pulled down and turned into FOURTEEN units!!! OK, it was a 1 acre block, but still . . . I think that's a bit extreme!

  8. #8
    Registered User

    Jul 2004
    5,756

    I'm living in my childhood home!(inherited to me by my mum) Its a good house and if we could move it to a different location it'd be even better. Having said that though we are moving soon and will probably sell it for the first time which is kinda sad.

  9. #9
    2013 BellyBelly RAK Recipient.

    May 2007
    Brisbane
    5,310

    LOL no... the houses were just terrible, all of them!! Plus the location, while very pretty and peaceful, 3 out of 4 were in the middle of nowhere!