How old were you when you bought your first house?

30

27 years old. Fixer upper - I had no idea what I was getting myself into. Love the area and I still own it.

I was 29 and renting a little 608 sq foot cottage with my new bride when the landlord offered to sell it to me with 2 lots for $65k. $2500 later I was a homeowner. Still here, but it’s about 2200 sq feet now.

Bought my first one in 83 for 69,900. It was a small rancher with one bathroom on a 1/2 acre in Taylorsville. We had 3 sons shortly after that. It was ok for a while then they started growing fast and playing sports. And...they started to stink so in 93 i bought a bigger house with 2.5 baths on 2.5 acres, built a nice shop on it and still here.

19 [1977], divorced 4 years later. Didn't "buy" another house till my second marriage....in 2001. We're still here.

We got married when I was 28, and instead of a distant, expensive honeymoon, we bought a lot, and started building our home at 29. We moved in a year later, as building, and working full time took some time. 38 years later, we're still hanging out there...

Bought a 12x50 mobile home on 10 acres of land in the UP of MI.... $6500 and 24 years old.

Sold the mobile home two years later for $3k and used my equity in the land to build a new 2200 sq fr home on the property.

Almost forgot... we moved in to my sister in laws place while we waited for our semi factory built home to be finished.

She lived in a 100+ year old log cabin that was the familys original home on 300+ acres.

It was the spring of '75... got cold enough to need some heat from the old Jungers oil burner in the living room.

After I primed the stove with some methanol it failed to start. I poured more methanol from a quart container into the hot primer cup and it burst into flame. I jerked my hand back and poured all of that burning methanol all over myself.

Now on fire I ran outside to douse the flames with the outside water hose that was used to fill the horse troughs... earlier that day my SIL disconnected the water hose and put it in the barn!

So ripped off my burning clothes while my wife doused me with water from the kitchen faucet while my sister in law got the kids out of the now burning living room.

We managed to put the fire out by filling large vases with water... one whole wall was damaged by the flames.

Meanwhile my wife poured me into our '70 Duster and we headed for the ER 18 miles away. My right arm had third degree burns and I hung the arm out the window so the 30 something outside temps could cool the burns a bit.

I wound up burned on my right arm, my back, neck, chest and face. Took a few months for those burns to settle down... my right arm took about a year.

But I never missed work!

My wife bought the home we live in after she divorced her starter husband. She paid $22k for it... a 90 year old duplex.

40+ years later it has been mostly remodeled, I built a 1500 sq ft shop on the property and the whole deal is worth about $190k.

With all the refinancing we have done to pay for the improvements we stretched out our mortgage but will have the joint paid for next May.

32.. bought it in 2002... paid it off 6 months ago, i would have paid it off in 2013 but i got into a bad mortgage and gave away over 100k to BOA..

icetech said:

32.. bought it in 2022... paid it off 6 months ago, i would have paid it off in 2013 but i got into a bad mortgage and gave away over 100k to BOA..

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Unless you have Doc's time traveling DeLorean, I think your dates are off.

Richard Cranium said:

Unless you have Doc's time traveling DeLorean, I think your dates are off.

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hahah 6am brain will fix

First house with 1st wife in 1987, starter mobile home. Bought next house in 1994, still in the house, minus the 1st wife.