Are you in your forever house?

[14joa31]

I have heard rumblings of house hunting, and I know that lucanjo14 is in the middle of selling her house/buying a new one. Are you in your forever house? If not, where do you hope to move and when? Just curious ... I think that DH and I will be listing our house and moving next spring. I hope that we can stay in our same bucolic suburb - I really love it here. It's like Mayberry USA.

[crimsonandclover]

I guess it depends on what you mean with "forever." Unless something drastic happens, it will be our "next 20ish years" home. But it's spread out over 4 floors (lowest level includes storage, in-law suite, heating room, laundry, so we have to go down there a couple times a week), so it's not one we'll likely be able to stay in easily when we're retired. We didn't really want to be in a duplex, but land is extremely expensive here and this gave us the square footage we wanted/needed at a price we could afford.

So in a nutshell: We'll be here for a while but it's not our ideal house and won't be suitable if we ever have difficulty with stairs.

[scorpioscuba]

Ugh, I hope not! I bought this house at the height of the "bubble." We NEVER planned on being her 10+ years. The house isn't terrible, though I'd like an extra room (it's 3 bedrooms) and I'd love for all the rooms to be a bit larger. I hate that we have ZERO yard and the neighborhood is going downhill fast. I'd love a bit larger house on at least one acre and no more HOA. But we probably can't even entertain the idea of a new house until H is done with school and has been in a decent job for at least a year so we can pay off his student debt.

Oh, and I'll never be able to sell this house without taking a loss so I'll have to rent it out.

[nikiswimr]

We are in our forever house, moved in two years ago. We're in the city in a house that was built in the 1940s that has been totally renovated, and we absolutely love it here. Only thing that would make us move is if my in laws got sick and had to live with us, we would have to get something with a separate in law suite like in a pool house or something because they would drive me insane. This is the fourth house MH and I have lived in.

[lucanjo14]

We are under contract! Ugh, but it's so stressful. If everything goes as planned we close and move on our new house October 5. It will be our 'next 10 years or more house' for sure. It needs some updating and we plan to put some $ in to make it exactly how we want. (But I have fantasies of moving to North Carolina or somewhere down south at some point in our lives, maybe when the kids are in college.

[14joa31]

@loonylove - your house is going to be paid off in 8 years?? That is AWESOME! Congrats - and congrats on the increased value. Even though it may need a major renovation, it sounds like you still picked a good place!
crimsonandclover and nikiswimr - that is very cool that you are both in your pretty-close-to forever houses!
scorpioscuba - when will your DH finish school?

lucanjo14 - GL with closing and moving - that's a lot going with a couple of LOs. I also dream of following tinydancer to North Carolina some day - take us with you!! I feel like I was definitely born in the wrong latitude!

[NellieOleson]

We are not in our forever home, and are hoping to move by next spring. Our next house probably won't be our forever and ever house either, but will hopefully be our home for the next 10+ years. I'm looking forward to getting settled somewhere so I can figure out where the girls will be attending preschool and elementary school. Where they will go to school is constantly on my mind now. It will be nice to have that decided so I can stop thinking about it!

I could see us moving again when the kids are older (middle/high school) for school or other reasons, and I definitely think we'd move again when the kids are grown and no longer living at home.

But who knows? If we love our next house and neighborhood, and are comfortable there longterm, maybe it will be our forever house? I've moved SOOOOO much as an adult, it sounds crazy to be completely done with it.

[tinydancer]

Well, we're moving in two weeks. But that won't be our forever home - we're going to rent and it's very likely that this will be a temporary (2-3 year) move for H's job.

We're going to keep our house in the DMV, rent it out, and maybe come back to it someday, but honestly I think it's too small to be our forever home. It's 3 bedrooms but one of them would probably be too small for a child older than 10. It's been a great investment for us, though, so we might hold onto it until retirement if possible. Also, I'm kind of attached to it for now since my baby was born here.

[kcrkcs]

We are renting now. When we move, hopefully this spring, we will probably buy something super cheap. We would live there until we can build a small 5-10 year house that would be staff housing on our farm at some point, when we have the money to move on to our "forever" house. So we are at least two steps and probably 10-15years from forever house.

[sjames2015]

We are not in our forever house. We've been in our house for 12 years. We originally said we'd only be in here 10 years but obviously we aren't moving anytime soon. The market here sucks and the prices are soo high. We want a house with some land, and I want more bedrooms and no HOA! I have lots of ideas for building a house but I highly doubt that'll ever become a reality. I hate moving and will do it as few times as needed.

[Lollipop]

God no! We're still renting. I should be getting a large sum of money soon, and that will be saved to go towards a downpayment on a house when our lease is up next summer. I actually wouldn't mind staying in the complex we're in, but the mortgage for these places tends to be out of our budget. Most likely we'll have to move closer to my mom or just outside of the city in one of the surrounding towns. I hope that our next house can be our forever home, but we'll see. 

[icequeen]

Definitely not in our forever home. Right now we are in a 3Bed/2Bath 2300 sq ft condo that we moved into just under a year ago. My mom actually bought this condo to move into after she sells her house in a few years. MH and I are selling our house in LA and part of the money will go to my mom. Thank goodness we'll be making a good amount off of that house. I love the condo because it doesn't have stairs and there is one main play area that I can keep my eyes on the kids at all times. I love that it is a very quiet, safe and secure building. We are living here mainly because i didn't want to deal with maintaining an entire house and caring for both kids while MH is traveling weeks at a time all the time. My mom is a few blocks away so that is helpful. We will move within the next 4 years due to MH's job. I would really like to move back into a house with a nice big yard on a gold course with a pool like we had in LA

[dizzycooks]

Nope. We have 1800sf, with two bedrooms up and one down. This is not my final destination. It works and it could be forever if we wanted it to be, but without major renovations I do want to move. I just hate change. I had moving. And I have no idea where I want to live anymore.