I know what you mean. I have to pay rent and living with my parents is ok. My wife and kids get along great with my parents but I want my own house now. I just need to save a little at a time in which im doing, and it may take a few years but I feel like im in the long haul.KalessinDB wrote:I tell ya, buying a house as a single man was a very different experience. Or maybe I'm just weird
I was living with my folks at the time, so while I was excited (I literally started ripping the ugly-as-sin carpets out with my bare hands within 30 minutes of walking in the door), I was in NO rush to move in. Ripped the carpet out, refinished the floors, painted every room on the main floor (it's a cape cod) including taking down wallpaper in the kitchen, replaced the bathroom vanity, took down the curtain rods and put up blinds... THEN I was ready to move in. Probably about 6 weeks or so after we closed
But like I say, I was living with my folks, so not like I was paying rent. And I get along fantastically with my folks, so I wasn't really in a rush to get out of there (I'm still over there ~2 times a week for a couple hours a night to have dinner and hang out)
See my parents lived above from my moms parents in a 1 bedroom apartment. They made the living room into a bedroom and usually the living room was my parents bedroom. It was very memorable and warm and yes it was crowded but I have great memories of that old house.
Now life has come full circle. I the youngest of the three boys live with my parents in a 1 bedroom sub apartment and it does suck but if I wasn't here then I believe my dad would have been gone by now from depression. So I feel like god put us here to help them in which we do.
Unlike my parents did not do, Its time for me to really budget and save because lets say in case anything happens to my parents and we have to sell the house I don't want to be like them and have no money when my grandparents die. So its like I want a house bad but I think I want to be financially safe more.
Anyways im also happy for knowing blu is hooking me up and im very grateful for that
