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re: How old were you when you bought your first house? How many have you owned?

Posted on 5/1/18 at 11:19 am to
Posted by CaptainsWafer
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Posted on 5/1/18 at 11:19 am to
First at 26
Second at 30
Posted by Weekend Warrior79
Member since Aug 2014
21735 posts
Posted on 5/1/18 at 11:21 am to
Bought my 1st one right out of college at 21 when you could put 0% down. Sold for a nice profit at 37

bought 2nd one at 35, still live here with no intentions of moving. May do a camelback add-on in the next 3-5 years.
Posted by CarRamrod
Spurbury, VT
Member since Dec 2006
58520 posts
Posted on 5/1/18 at 11:27 am to
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Bought my first at 26, paid it off at 27
quote:

Then bought my current home at 30. Paid it off a month later.
Posted by fallguy_1978
Best States #50
Member since Feb 2018
53535 posts
Posted on 5/1/18 at 11:28 am to
First at 28, 2nd at 35. Still in that one with no plans to move for the next 7-8 years at least
Posted by CAD703X
Liberty Island
Member since Jul 2008
93337 posts
Posted on 5/1/18 at 11:30 am to
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with a 75yo Live Oak in the back
pics?
Posted by madmaxvol
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Member since Oct 2011
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Posted on 5/1/18 at 11:30 am to
Bought a condo at 24, sold condo and bought first house at 29, sold house and built a house at 35, sold that house and built most recent house at 47.
Posted by madmaxvol
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Posted on 5/1/18 at 11:32 am to
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It's a condo in a nice location downtown on the beautiful Tennessee river, so we're planning to keep it and rent it out when we decide to move and build a house. We'll probably stay there another 4-5 years or so.



I bought a condo when I was 24 off of Pellissippi...the mortgage was $450/month (back in the early '90s). I wish I had kept it and rented it for the last 20 years or so...
Posted by cas4t
Member since Jan 2010
72157 posts
Posted on 5/1/18 at 11:33 am to
I'd just turned 29 a week and a half before we closed. Still in it. Only one. It will be a rental in the fairly near future.
Posted by TygerTyger
Houston
Member since Oct 2010
11126 posts
Posted on 5/1/18 at 11:35 am to
Bought my first house at 31, sold it and bought current house at 45.

I like my house and neighborhood so much that I have no plans of moving until retirement.

That's the plan anyway.
Posted by 0
Member since Aug 2011
17852 posts
Posted on 5/1/18 at 11:37 am to
Bought our first about 8 months ago and I was 30 at the time. We waited a few years to find our “dream” home and don’t plan on moving anytime soon.
Posted by Kim Jong Ir
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2008
55297 posts
Posted on 5/1/18 at 11:38 am to
First house at 28. I've owned 2.
Posted by REB BEER
Laffy Yet
Member since Dec 2010
18078 posts
Posted on 5/1/18 at 11:39 am to
Bought my first at 28.

I’m in my 3rd and hopefully final one now.
Posted by momentoftruth87
Your mom
Member since Oct 2013
86110 posts
Posted on 5/1/18 at 11:41 am to
Was 29 as well. Before that I was military and rented.

Only owned this one so far. Have moved a lot in the past, the next house I buy will hopefully be the last.

I like my current house, but it's not where I want to be forever.
Posted by StringedInstruments
Member since Oct 2013
20897 posts
Posted on 5/1/18 at 11:43 am to
I was 23 when I bought my first house. Then the housing market crashed.

I sold it (finally) a few weeks ago to my tenants. Thankful to have gotten rid of it and may wait until I'm 40 to buy another one.
Posted by Montezuma
Member since Apr 2013
3665 posts
Posted on 5/1/18 at 11:44 am to
Haven't owned one at 33. I live in a place with what I believe to be an inflated market, and I think a crash is coming. I found a low-cost rental while I wait to move, or prey on someone's pain when reality hits.
Posted by dat yat
Chef Pass
Member since Jun 2011
4971 posts
Posted on 5/1/18 at 11:48 am to
27 - Atlanta (typical starter home 3/2)

28 - Westbank (nice 4/2.5 family home)

32 - Mid City (divorced dad special - old shotgun-double renovated to a nice 4/2 after Katrina.)

47 - Condo (I was itching to live on the water when my youngest went to college)

Sold 2, transferred one to Ex.


My parents have had 3 and each move was a huge upgrade.
Posted by hrryhll
England
Member since Apr 2018
708 posts
Posted on 5/1/18 at 11:54 am to
Why do American houses always look like shacks built by a 10 year old.

We call them sheds over here. No wonder they turn to rubble when you get some bad weather.
Posted by Teddy Ruxpin
Member since Oct 2006
40861 posts
Posted on 5/1/18 at 11:54 am to
First one uptown New Orleans in 2014 at 28.

Second in 2016 in Austin (31).

Job offer changed our plans
This post was edited on 5/1/18 at 11:55 am
Posted by cgrand
HAMMOND
Member since Oct 2009
48982 posts
Posted on 5/1/18 at 11:54 am to
29, algiers
31, mandeville
39, hammond...and just paid that bitch off
Posted by TH03
Mogadishu
Member since Dec 2008
172004 posts
Posted on 5/1/18 at 11:56 am to
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Bought my first at 26, paid it off at 27. Subdivision started going to shite so I sold while values were still great. Then bought my current home at 30. Paid it off a month later. A month after that the flood hit, everyone around me and in my entire area sold their flooded homes for pennies on the dollar, and brought my value down like a fricking rock.


So much bullshite in one reply.

Bought at 22, sold at 25 and haven’t bought again.
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