just bought my first house

After going through about 3 counter offers, we finally accepted and signed to buy a house this morning. The man who is selling it is 95 years old and is in a "retirement community" so we got it for way cheaper than he was asking.

It is 3 Bed, 1.5 Bath
1,636 Sq. Ft.
3/4 acres of wooded land

http://www.realtor.com/FindHome/HomeListing.asp?snum=75&frm=byzip&lid=&pgnum=8&ss_aywr=&st=&mls=xmls&mnbed=0&js=on&mnsqft=0&fid=so&vtsort=&poe=realtor&mnprice=0&ct=&zp=46825&mxprice=100000&typ=1&typ=3&typ=7&typ=2&typ=6&typ=4&typ=5&exft=0&exft=0&exft=0&exft=0&mnbath=0&sid=039B2966F015C&snumxlid=1041376597&lnksrc=00002


The only thing I dont like is that it doesnt have a dishwasher, and it is on well water. But my boyfriend is the appliance manager so I'll have a dishwasher before the end of the year. And the well water is softened so it shouldn't be too bad.

Looks nice, congratulations!

Congratulations on the purchase on your house!!! Hope you enjoy it!!

congrats on your first house!!! One thing about well water is, if you wash dishes and leave the water running while cleaning the dirty dishes. The water will get dirty for about 20-30 minutes, water will be all cloudy and undrinkable. but other than that it tastes great. That house looks pretty nice also, looks big enough to fit your rotary car engine family

It looks nice! :thumbsup:

Congrats on the new house...I know what you mean about well water, we have it here at my house. Our well water smells and tastes like rotten eggs, it's awful. But all well water is different.

congrats! that's a big step in life.


boobie pics to celebrate? :D

congrats, nice looking house

congrats! that's a big step in life.


boobie pics to celebrate? :D

:lol2:

HA! now we have your address for TPing!!!!

So what about the garage? is it heated, and are you gonna put a lift in???

Grats Dayna!

You should get to know the kitchen quite well ;)

Ahem...

















PARTY AT DAYNA'S!!!!:biggrin:

Needs a bigger garage.....

Looks like a nice house though, congrats.

Nice house, don't worry about the well water, that's what I have at my house, and I don't even have a water softner, and it's still fine. Putting a water softner won't affect your drinking water, it's only for your appliances, plus you can get one for $300.

Needs a bigger garage.....

Looks like a nice house though, congrats.


The garage is 24x20. It has a shed in the back yard but in a few years we are going to build a pole barn too.

nice house
you said it's in a retirment communtity?do they have any age restriction?
some advice start a small saving account for unexpect homerepairs
i bought a new house(new construction) 8 months you will be amazed on how much money you will spend in the next couple months

Congrats on the new house.

Just did the same, closed mine on Sept 30th (hope your purchase doesn't go like mine) and haven't stopped doing stuff to it yet.

"Well, I'd like to put this here and move that wall over there and while we're at it rip that out of there..."

Oh yeah, the water pump, I'm on well water too, burnt the points last night so I was up doing some fine sanding and filing.
Just one of the joys of owning. Anything and everything that goes wrong or breaks is now coming diretly out of your pocket.

I live on a small island and most of us are dependent on ground water. Our water tastes excellent and it washes clothes great.

By the way, the difference between what I was paying in rent as opposed to my mortage ( insurance and taxes included) is it costs me $78.00 more a month to own as to rent!!

To quote Bart Simpson " I'd be crazy NOT to do it".

Good luck Dayna...I hope it all goes well for you.

The man that we bought the house from now lives in a retirement community. There is no way I would live in one. We'd get the cops called on us ALL THE TIME from all our loud cars.

And yeah I know what you mean about the house repairs. Like I said though, my boyfriend is a manager at Lowes, so he gets really good deals on stuff. We already have lots of stuff all over our aparment like really nice Kohler faucets that he got for like $25, a bowl sink he got for $5, nice lamps that he got for $10-15, ceiling fans he got for $25, etc. I have to go over to Lowes one day this week and pick out a kitchen table that sell for $300-400 that we can have for $50-100. Thats why we bought an older house. You get WAY more for your money and building equity will be a lot easier.

There is a house about 7 houses down from ours that is going for $179,999. With new houses around here that are the same price range, you cant negociate the price, you would get about 1100 square feet, about 1/8 of an acre and the build quality isnt even as good as it would be in an older home.

By the way, the difference between what I was paying in rent as opposed to my mortage ( insurance and taxes included) is it costs me $78.00 more a month to own as to rent!!





Our difference is going to be $132 but we are getting 950 more square feet of living space, 2 more bedrooms, an extra bathroom, a bigger garage, and a huge backyard. So it is WELL worth it.

Wow. Big milestone. Congratulations :cheers:

Congratulations, hope you enjoy it.

Where do you live. Property like that around here goes for 270k.

Awesome; congrats. Has it hit you yet, that you OWN rather than RENT? Nice feeling. We saved about $100 a month when we bought.....

Beautiful new place, congratulations Dayna.

congradulations dayna! Wish you the best of luck with it. Be sure to party alot in it :p.

BTW, it later in life u want to move to north New Jersey, lemme know! my mom works with coldwell banker! :icon16:

Where do you live. Property like that around here goes for 270k.

same here. My house is about as big as that but with no garage, worth like 350k here. Stupid Fairfax County

It's quaint. I like it. :smile:

happy for you, keep us updated.

Nice place, hope you don't have any problems with it. And yeah up here property like that would be worth like $400 000 maybe more.

Yeah I was wondering when someone was going to ask about how cheap it is. cost of living here in Fort Wayne is reallly cheap.

It hasnt reallly hit me that I own yet since we still have a month before we move in. But the inspection is tomorrow and we meet the mortgage guy Wednesday. It will be a very busy month.

Congratulations.
We have well water here too. I would never do city water if I could help it.(as long as you don't live near a dump or landfill)
Good luck on the move.

Congrats and vote 2 for boobie pics.

I have well water, tastes just like Dasani to me.

Nice Home Dayna!

Congrats on the house. I wish houses around here were that cheep, a house an 8th of yoursize, (looked more like a gas station... oh wait it was a converted gas station) went for 300k. Average price is between 500-800k on one side of the town and 1-3mil on the other.

congrats

I have well water, tastes just like Dasani to me.

Nice Home Dayna!

well water does taste pretty damn good, way better than tap.

Dang girl I'm soooooo jealous!!! Congratulations though!

We bought a house a year and a half ago. My husband wanted to be close work so it was really really hard to find a decent place in our price range. I REALLY wanted a big yard, at least a half acre or bigger. We got a little under a quarter acre. Sucks. And the house is great, great location, but dang I'd trade ya in a heartbeat just cause of the yard size. Plus we had to pay $130,000 and our house is only 100sq ft bigger than yours. Oh well. Someday I'll get my land damn it. I'm onlty 24 anyway, I got plenty of time to get my damn land lol.

1. Congrats Dayna!
2. You seriously bought your house from an estate agent named Beer?
3. PARTY!!

1. Congrats Dayna!
2. You seriously bought your house from an estate agent named Beer?
3. PARTY!!


lol hell yeah!



And our deciding factor on buying the house was about 75% land, 25% house. The lot is so awesome. It will be fun in the summer. Lots of partys.

I know how that is seeing as how my last 4 weeks have been an alcoholic haze out at a good party location.

Congrats on the new house! I just bought my first house at the beginning of this month after renting for about two years. One of my favorite things about the house is being able to keep by baby (see sig) in the garage with me at all times. No garage at the apartment so I had to store it about a half hour away.

Happy Home-owning! :cheers:

Congratulations. I dont know you but i know how you feel. i closed on my house last month. 19 years old and bought mine
i also have a baby on the way so i am glad i settled in. on top of that i bought a new truck too
http://bowersautosales.com/02chev2500BLACK2408.htm

this is the truck but i didnt pay that much.
pics of my house are already off the market. it is similar to yours with no garage 3 bed 1.5 bath 1290 sq. ft. and i got it for $51,000 (not a typo)
ps. i live in Oklahoma

Congrats Dayna. Good luck with your new adventure... what's next? Little baby Daynas runnin around? :lol: Right well be happy you got the house and land for cheap cuz here in Loudoun County, VA... something like that is well over the 400k mark. Congrats again.

FULL MIRRORED CLOSET DOORS

It should be required that you put the bed in front of them. :smokin:

Yeah the bed is going in front of the mirrors.......

There are mirrors ALL over the house too! Its crazy. The bathroom is pretty much all mirror, in the hallway there are built in mirrors and all the closets in the bedrooms except the walk in closet in the master bedroom are full mirrors.

There are plently of houses around here that are between $30-70 but you dont get the land, houses, arent as nice, and they arent in the best of neighborhoods.

And no kids for me for at least 3-4 more years. I am way too selfish to have kids now.

Definatly congrats on the new house purchase, its something you will love for the rest of the time your there, not to mention repairs!! :grinyes:

good thing your not living around here

Central New Jersey

3 bed 2.5 bath ranch with finished basement, on a 1/2 acre of lot, in decent condition, located in the suburbs 30 miles from NYC our house just got appraised......

$420,000

its crazy...


congrats once again :naughty:

$460 a month to own with 3/4 acre land? I'm so damn jealous. :frown:

My roommates and I pay $2300 a month to rent our house and we have absolutely no land.

Great looking house, BTW. :smokin:

$460 a month is full price with 20% down and no taxes or insurance. Our payments are going to be about $650 a month. We paid 93K for the house, dont have to put any money down, and taxes and insurance is about $100 of that $650.

And you guys have to realize, cost of living here is cheaper, but we get probably get paid a lot less at our jobs here than someone in California, New York, etc...


This is what around $450,000 or $2300 a month will buy you in Fort Wayne


http://www.realtor.com/FindHome/HomeListing.asp?snum=1&frm=bymap&nearbyZp=46835&lid=Enter+MLS+ID&ss_aywr=&st=IN&mls=xmls&mnbed=0&js=on&mnsqft=0&fid=so&poe=realtor&mnprice=450000&zp=&ct=fort+wayne&primaryZp=&mxprice=1000000&typ=1&typ=3&typ=7&typ=2&typ=6&typ=4&typ=5&exft=0&exft=0&exft=0&exft=0&mnbath=0&areaid=497&sid=03BAD4EA6569C&sbls=0&sbint=2&sblo=0&pgnum=1&snumxlid=1040830590&lnksrc=00002

Oh, and if anyone wants to see a few more pictures of the outside go to

http://fortwayne.rapmls.com/scripts/mgrqispi.dll?APPNAME=Fortwayne&PRGNAME=MLSLogin&ARGUMENTS=-AFS,-AO,-A,-N388001851


scroll down to the bottom where it says " Listing Numbers " And put in 2413627

This is what around $450,000 or $2300 a month will buy you in Fort Wayne


http://www.realtor.com/FindHome/HomeListing.asp?snum=1&frm=bymap&nearbyZp=46835&lid=Enter+MLS+ID&ss_aywr=&st=IN&mls=xmls&mnbed=0&js=on&mnsqft=0&fid=so&poe=realtor&mnprice=450000&zp=&ct=fort+wayne&primaryZp=&mxprice=1000000&typ=1&typ=3&typ=7&typ=2&typ=6&typ=4&typ=5&exft=0&exft=0&exft=0&exft=0&mnbath=0&areaid=497&sid=03BAD4EA6569C&sbls=0&sbint=2&sblo=0&pgnum=1&snumxlid=1040830590&lnksrc=00002

Why did you have to do that?! :crying:

$2300 in Redondo Beach gets you this hunk of crap I call home:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v391/blindside311/homes.jpg

Then again, I am one mile from the beach so I guess it's all about location. :p