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I've been daydreaming a fair bit lately about buying a house... Today i was thinking, "If I could buy my childhood home, would I?" i mean, given we had the money and in the position to move. When i tell dh about what i want when we buy, thats what comes to mind...
So my question is: if you had the chance would you buy your childhood home?
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 :lol:
I say if it suits your needs, you can afford it & if its what you want then go for it!!! You lucky thing!
I wouldn't becuase it's way too small and I don't like the area anymore. I much prefer where I live now.
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!
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?
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
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.
I would buy the block of land we had in the blue mountains but I'd not buy any of my childhood homes
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!
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.
we inherited DH's family home (and the mortgage that goes with it!) when DH's brother passed away just after we got engaged. his parents built it early 1980's - the old house on this block had been here for a couple of generations - so DH has only ever lived here in one of the two houses. it's hard trying to (still) clean out the crap that was accumulated, but i love it here!
No not our house, but I'd love to buy my nans house. It's an old war home and I would love to buy it and renovate it. It has such a homely feel to it and anyone who walks in there often say they feel instantly at home. Though the area leaves a bit to be desired....
My two sister's & i will inherit our childhood home & sadly we don't have many fond memories in it ... so therefore my sister's i have light heartly joked we would prefer to see it burnt to the ground ... i know it's is sad but it's true (but of course we would sell it) :rolleyes:
My parents were still renting when I came along, and the first house they ever bought is the one they live in now (we moved there when I was 6), so there are a few for me to choose from!! There is one house though, the last one we lived in before moving up here from Bundaberg, which I still count as my 'home' town - and yes, I would definitely consider buying that same house (my grandfather built it and my parents rented it from my grandparents, then it remained a private rental until my pop got sick and it was sold to help with the bills of going through chemo), I was only a little girl and we only lived there a couple of years but I have very vivid, fond memories of that house, and it's in a good, quiet area close to the CBD (lol if you could call Bourbong St the 'CBD'), in a decent neighbourhood. It's a very small house though, so that would be a worry, but relatively modern(ish lol, we're talking about 15 years ago) and suited our young family fine when my brother and I were kids. I could see myself raising my own kids there.
The house my parents live in now, that I spent the vast majority of my childhood in... no. Probably not. It's too much 'my parents'' house, kwim? The majority of my childhood was spent here, but my fondest memories involve Bundy so I'd love to buy there, rather than here (plus, housing prices are grossly inflated here because of the industry, so it would really be a waste of money to buy here when we could get the same kind of house for $100k cheaper elsewhere).
In a heartbeat .. that is if my parents ever move out ;) I'll beg, borrow or steal money if I need too
We are- well DH's anyway. Dh's mum lives overseas and we are renting the house that they had built when DH was about 12, we are in the process of organising to buy it at the moment. It is not the 'perfect' house for us, but it is a great foot in the door as first home owners, and the best thing is we dont have to move.
As for mine, probably not, I love it and the backyard, but it is simply to small for us all to fit in.
Not the house because I wouldn't want to live there but I would love maybe 100 or so acres.
I DID!
DH and I bought the house my parents built and which I lived in til I was 10, just after my dad died. We have substantially renovated and extended it so it is a wholly new place, but it is lovely being "home"!
In an instant! I was actually a little annoyed as my step father passed away from a brain tumour in 2003 - We were not in close contact at the time after he and my mum seperated I was living in Mt Isa at the time and he didn't want anyone to know he was sick. I flew down 3 days before he passed away when a family friend finally told me. I was told the family was keeping the house (and our dog - he was 14 at the time) however a few years later I was told they sold the property and had the dog put down "cause he was fretting". I was devestated! I would dearly have loved to have bought that house! They sold it to a property developer who tore it down and built two duplexes on the block - In some sort of cruel twist one of the duplexes that sits on the site of the original house retaisn some of the features of the old place which makes it even more painful to look at. If I could turn back time I would do anything to buy that place and renovate it!!!!
I'd love to buy my grandmothers home but not my parent's. Perhaps it's the sentimentality of my grandmothers home and the fact that she died when I was 13 it would be a way of re-connecting with her. My parent's home will always be their home and where I grew up but I cannot image living in it as an adult without them there.
i without hesitation - in fact I would buy about 5 of my childhood houses...and plan on it lol
So whoever is living at 7 Woodland Ave in MtEliza better start packing - you have 2 years before I buy my house back! lol
Definitely! I would love for my kids to grow up where I did. It is a beautiful little beach side suburb in Sydney and I loved our house. Obviously most things are out dated on it now but nothing that can't be fixed.
Would love to. I grew up in a beautiful 2 storey house, built by my dad, in Denmark in Southern WA. It was by the river, on a big block, with a chook pen & a huge vege garden. So many fond memories. I would love for my kids to grow up in the country, we had such a fantastic childhood. No doubt it would be priced out of our range by now though. :(
No. It was a nice house, near a good park and a very good-sized garden... but no.
I actually feel slightly sick just thinking about it. Too many bad memories and a very unhappy time there.
I wouldn't because I have no happy memories of my childhood... I think it would be a negative thing for me.. However, I'd love to buy my grandparents home - my Granddad built it and it's so cute.... It's about 7 hours north of here and I just wouldnt move up that way again...
Its so sad how many people have had an unhappy childhood :(
I was thinking that too. Mine wasn't great (I think I blocked parts out tho), but I grew up in that house, and although there were unhappy times there, I still remember an awful lot of good times there!:
When I listen to John Williamson songs, all I can think about is that house. Gets me a bit emotional sometimes, in a good way mostly.
I often wonder if my sister was interested in buying a house, if she'd want to buy that house too! ;) Would it be a bidding war?! lol I was hoping she'd post a response - we'll see!!
:jawdrop: omg! I just google mapped the house I'm talking about, and there's another house right next to it, too big for a granny flat! Maybe a big one! oh, totally devestated!
Which one? :rofl: I lived in waaaaaay to many homes (curse of being a defence family). There were 2 homes I'd live in. Both were Defence homes. Oddly, I'd never buy the one my parents actually built. Oddly enough, one of the houses I lived in as a child is near where I live now and was up for sale when DH and I first moved to Vic nearly 8 years ago... but it is not an ideal location nor was the house in great condition... so no for that one!!!
I live in mine (back with my parents LOL!)
Love the area, love the house, don't have the spare $1M+ it would cost to buy it...