Own or rent?

GalLaura

I'm apt hunting at the moment. It has me wondering how many people own their homes or rent their homes.

numbersgirl08

SS We own a house that we rent out right now because we have been living in another city for a couple of years, and we rent in the other city while we are there. I can't wait to move back to my house!

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momofcatan

Bought our home in 2011. Rented a condo the a year before that. Our house has probably increased in value by $100K since we bought it so I guess it was a good idea, but I still wonder if we should have rented longer.

ASmallWonder

We bought our house in 2011 (just had our three year home owner anniversary last week lol)  Before that we rented a two bedroom apartment in a totally different part of the state.  We lived there for about 5 years together.  I loved that apartment

itsStackie

Closed on our home 2 weeks before our wedding in 2010. What were we thinking?

megaroo64

We built/bought our home in 2010, and then got engaged a few weeks later.  My H still owes the home that he bought before then - but we are currently in the process of selling it. 

WasNotWas

Bought a town home in Naperville, IL in 2007 which is now a rental property, we bought our current home (in Florida) in 2011 when Bradley was all of 3 months old

riansmommie

Bought our home in June 2012, will be here until April 2018 which is when the Navy will send is elsewhere. We bought this house knowing it wouldn't be our forever home but with every intention of making it an income property. We plan on renting homes for the rest of my hubby's navy career, once he retires we will be building our forever home in GA .

dmlk413

We rent.  I would love to buy a house but it's probably going to be a few more years before that happens.

ilovemarfa

I bought my first house in 2005. When dh and I got engaged we built a house together in 2007.

needanustart

We bought a two family, our first home in 2009. We bought our forever home in 2012. You have to stay in a house three years to keep the first time home buyers tax credit we kept the two family and rented it to two tenants until 2 months ago.

RIngReady

Bought 5 years ago today! Happy  House-aversary to us!!! 

LaBellaVida

We own, and rent.
We own our home in Texas, and rent the house we are living in.

Eta: we bought in 2009 too.
Our home is still up for sale in Texas! We will buy or built our retirement home ina few years. We've only got 8 years left before he retires.
SCARY!

musicalsilver

We also bought our first home in 2009!  It was a condo, and we moved out of there early this year into a house we bought in late 2013.  

GraceInCA

Bought the first place in 1997, it's rented out.  Bought the current place in 2007.  In the process of buying another place, and will rent this one out once we are moved into that one.

BunnyLove416

We bought our first house last month 3-ish weeks ago I rented various NYC/Queens apartments nearly 10 years before that.

phishgirl29

DH bought our townhouse for himself 3 months before I met him in 2005. We plan on putting it on the market early 2015 hopefully to buy a home nearby.

PC0909

We rent a house my parents own, so I chose live with family and pay rent.  We pay a small amount of rent each month, plus the taxes, utliities, and maintenance.

BunnyLove416

@CL8badB The house is coming along, probably another month until we get to move in. We're good, trying to work out our new commutes and maybe switch daycares. Thank you so much for asking!

daffy2k

We bought in 2009 too! It was a great house and we would probably still be there, but our dream property came on the market this past fall and we couldn't pass up the opportunity to move out to our oasis on the river. The plan was for this to be our forever home but now DH is looking at a career move that will take us to a different part of the province so we may be moving again...

MorganWP

We live in the ground level suite of the house that SO grew up in and pay rent. His parents still own it and his sister and BIL live upstairs.