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DiamondGirl
You are my I love you
Member since 7/09 18802 total posts
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DiamondMama
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Re: Are you in your forever home?
Posted by APT910
Starter home. We bought a 2 bedroom co-op in a location we love but plan to buy a house a few years down the road.
Same here 
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VirginiaDeb
Don't eat me, hippo!
Member since 5/05 9252 total posts
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Deb
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Re: Are you in your forever home?
Starter home. It's a 3 BR townhouse. We hope to do a few upgrades here, and then move to a forever home in about 5-6 years.
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| Posted 3/13/11 9:35 AM |
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LulaBell
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Member since 1/06 3508 total posts
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J
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Re: Are you in your forever home?
Starter - it's 3 BR 1.5 baths, but not enough space. We're waiting for the right forever house to come along.
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| Posted 3/13/11 10:43 AM |
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Goobster
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Member since 5/07 27557 total posts
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:)
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Re: Are you in your forever home?
Could be. Odds are yes but I will never say never. But I always try to buy with the thought that it could be a forever home if need be.
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| Posted 3/13/11 11:27 AM |
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Nik211
my little monkey<3
Member since 5/08 3303 total posts
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Nik
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Re: Are you in your forever home?
ours has the potential to be a forever home if we need it to be...but i'm not sure i want to be living in a townhome forever, i think i'd like my own yard and pool one day...but if we stay here we can be mortgage free by the time DH is 50...so i don't know...we said it would have to make sense for us to move financially - we want to have whatever house we are living in paid off before we are at retirement age...both of our parents are struggling and we don't want to be in their shoes when we are their ages...
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| Posted 3/13/11 11:31 AM |
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Goldi0218
My miracles!
Member since 12/05 23902 total posts
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Leslie
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Re: Are you in your forever home?
Yes on our current income. No if we hit the lottery.
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| Posted 3/13/11 12:27 PM |
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Re: Are you in your forever home?
I would love to think it's our starter home, but the reality is we'll be here for a looooooooooooong time. The market suucks here and the house is ok. We can have 2 kids and by the time we want more it'll be at least 3-5years. We need to do a lot of work and we could add on if we need to. I hate how small it is but I love my house I can't imagine moving. We came home from our honeymoon here, we concieved a baby here, brought her home here, and GOD willing will have another. Yea it has faults, but i'm hoping over the next few years we can make it work for us. I think with the right redos and design help we could be ok.......
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| Posted 3/13/11 4:45 PM |
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justpeachy
LIF Adolescent
Member since 9/10 607 total posts
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Joanne
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Re: Are you in your forever home?
When we first bought it we thought it was going be a forever home, after a few years living here and adding a baby, we have decided this will just be our started house.
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| Posted 3/13/11 4:54 PM |
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KennysMommy
Never knew LOVE like it before
Member since 3/10 2640 total posts
Name:
Danielle
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Re: Are you in your forever home?
It's our forever home until we retire. Then we're getting the hel1 out of NY!!!!!! I want to live on the beach where it's warm 365 days a year!
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| Posted 3/13/11 5:28 PM |
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Cheeks24
Living a dream
Member since 1/08 8589 total posts
Name:
Cheeks
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Re: Are you in your forever home?
Posted by Goldi0218
Yes on our current income. No if we hit the lottery.
Ditto!
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| Posted 3/13/11 8:05 PM |
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Cheeks24
Living a dream
Member since 1/08 8589 total posts
Name:
Cheeks
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Re: Are you in your forever home?
Posted by MarsB
IMO, real estate is not a short term investment. Why buy a starter home when you can just rent?
Many people expand on their starter home or their family outgrows it. Besides renting is throwing money down the toilet because you are not putting money into something that will become yours. You're paying someone else's mortgage/bills.
ETS: I do understand where you are coming from though. Many people are just against renting and rather have their own home.
Message edited 3/13/2011 8:08:06 PM.
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| Posted 3/13/11 8:07 PM |
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BeachGal
LIF Adult
Member since 2/10 2827 total posts
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J
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Re: Are you in your forever home?
I plan on being in my home until I retire and move out of NY most likely. Four bedrooms/2 bath which is perfect for us because we plan on having 2 kids.
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| Posted 3/13/11 8:49 PM |
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Kelly9904
Mommy to 2 amazing little boys
Member since 5/05 9306 total posts
Name:
Kelly
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Re: Are you in your forever home?
Posted by MarsB
IMO, real estate is not a short term investment. Why buy a starter home when you can just rent?
Thats easy for me to answer. We didnt rent, didnt want it, it wasnt for us.
We bought a starter home, what we could afford. Stayed 2.5 years. The house could have fit us forever if need be, but our salaries went up considerably in those 2.5 years with promotions and such. SO we could afford a nicer home in a nicer area. And we sold our starter for 60K more than we paid.
We never would have made that extra money if we had of rented. And we wouldnt have saved THAT much more in rent vs mortgage as we had a reasonable mortgage.
We were lucky that time, we sold before the market tanked, if we had of waited even 1 more year we wouldnt have gotten such a nice profit.
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| Posted 3/13/11 11:23 PM |
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GoldenRod
10 years on LIF!
Member since 11/06 26792 total posts
Name:
Shawn
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Re: Are you in your forever home?
Bought a starter home (we thought) 15 years ago, but then after our 2nd DC, we started looking at options, and decided that doubling the s/f of our current home was the cheapest, most logical option for us. We love our location, school district, neighbors, etc, and we had plenty of space to expand.
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| Posted 3/14/11 7:55 AM |
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Jax430
Hi!
Member since 5/05 18919 total posts
Name:
Jackie
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Re: Are you in your forever home?
Posted by jmf423
Forever home. We are going to eventually dormer the attic area (its a split) to make a master suite and then we are good.
Unless of course we hit the lotto 
This is what we would like to do too. Even if we can't do that eventually, it is still our forever home. Neither DH nor I have any desire to move again.
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| Posted 3/14/11 8:32 AM |
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maymama
my little loves
Member since 8/08 18453 total posts
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Re: Are you in your forever home?
right now, starter home though we kind of did it backwards.
we bought a brand new condo in 2008. It is really amazing but we are out growing it.
so now we are house hunting for our "forever home" and its hard to go from everything BRAND new, CAC, stainless, granite, moldings galore to a home that might need some work
whatever we find, we will make it our dream forever home 
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| Posted 3/14/11 8:34 AM |
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IrishLasss334
I'll be there soon!
Member since 1/08 6549 total posts
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Patty
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Re: Are you in your forever home?
We'll be in this house until DH can retire - 13 years, 3 months. Yes, I am counting. Then it's hasta la vista Long Island!
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| Posted 3/14/11 8:34 AM |
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randella
Love my little man
Member since 8/05 16290 total posts
Name:
Randi
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Re: Are you in your forever home?
we are-- but we do plan to build a second level before my kids are teenagers. its plenty of space now, and great for small kids-- but i feel it will be too close for comfort when i have older kids. now i just have a 2 yr old. plus i want a huge master suite.
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| Posted 3/14/11 8:37 AM |
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ali120206
2 Boys
Member since 7/06 17792 total posts
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Re: Are you in your forever home?
We bought a starter home that we were going to turn into a forever home in 2007. We're in the process of turning it into our forever home now
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| Posted 3/14/11 9:02 AM |
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MrsFrizzle
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Member since 9/09 4628 total posts
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Kristin
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Re: Are you in your forever home?
We're in a condo currently so we are in our 5-10 year home depending.
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| Posted 3/14/11 9:34 AM |
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Megs4
LIF Adult
Member since 11/08 1619 total posts
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Megan
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Re: Are you in your forever home?
We are in a starter home but if we had to/wanted to stay, we could, as long as we finish the basement and add another bathroom down there. We love the location, so we could make it work.
We hope though that we will move on to bigger and better in the future.
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| Posted 3/14/11 10:06 AM |
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KangaMom
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Member since 1/06 4593 total posts
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Re: Are you in your forever home?
Our 1st house (starter home) we estimated to be there 3 -5 years. We moved out in 3 1/2...
Our current home we estimated to be here 10 - 15 years, so far 9 years... We plan to move in a few years
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| Posted 3/14/11 10:38 AM |
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4PsInaPod
My Loves <3
Member since 7/07 10079 total posts
Name:
D
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Re: Are you in your forever home?
We are not in our forever home. As much as I love my home. . .I want OUT! I can't imagine having a second child in our house!
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| Posted 3/14/11 11:42 AM |
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dapnkap
Our 3 angels
Member since 7/07 4824 total posts
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Karen
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Re: Are you in your forever home?
Starter, but we bought in a good area with good schools in case we wouldn't be able to upgrade. We've been here 8 years and looking to move in the next 1-2 years if possible.
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| Posted 3/14/11 11:49 AM |
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JessInCA
live laugh love
Member since 8/06 5082 total posts
Name:
Jess
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Re: Are you in your forever home?
We have a starter home. We've already lived in it much longer than we originally anticipated, thanks to the fall of the housing market.
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| Posted 3/14/11 12:59 PM |
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