How Old is Your Home?

[circles]

about 60 years old an old west seattle bungalow

 

[D-POLAND]

the old farm house we have is pre victorian era! crica 1870s!lived here since 1978

 

[Gin&Pentatonic]

What do you guys do to afford these or are you all retired?

Thats all I can think about some nights when I jog down the boulevard near my humble abode. To call these homes I run past "houses" would be an insult. More like palatial estates. All I can think is "how do people make so much damn money?!"

 

[TKOjams]

My home was built in 1986, my town was settled in 1679.

 

[PraXis]

I'm buying a house in TX and not going for anything older than 2005.

 

[zeronalo]

What do you guys do to afford these or are you all retired?

alright I'm going to explain how I did it:

1st find a woman who works HARD and is good with money because most of us guys aren't

2nd get up at 6 am 7 days a week to go to work building your own business, get off at 4:30 and go wait tables in a nice restaurant from 5:30 to 11:00

come home so your wife can leave at 4:00 am at her 1 st job, kiss her half asleep when she leaves.

My wife worked a full time job and 2 part time jobs for years - she still has a full time a part time and a casual very part time thing she does. We did this for years, never traveled, never went any place nice to eat and paid our dues. Eventually our incomes caught up to our mortgage and we are now pretty comfortable.

The easier way would have been to buy a starter home and move up a couple times but we jumped in to something we couldn't afford and made it happen.


Freddy

 

[V Man]

Our farmhouse is 106 years old. I can hang the heaviest of Les Pauls on the wall with confidence as the plaster is all backed with oak planking. If you want to make any kind of a hole, even as small as one to hang a picture, ya gotta get a drill.

 

[geochem1st]

My house is 15 years old....

Just at the right age for the appliances to start going. Changed my microwave last week. It's at the age where things are just falling apart and needs replacing. From roofing to fencing to siding.


I prefer either a much newer house or a much, much older house.