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I owned a house before we met. He bought his house while dating, before proposing. Now we live in his house.
yup! They say the 1st year of marriage is the hardest and I think they mean that the 1st year of living with someone is the hardest. Because our first year in our house was while we were engaged, we didn't have any adjustment issues after the wedding.
I bought a house before we met, then he bought his house after we started dating. I sold my house last year & now we live in the house he bought which he has always referred to as "our house".
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We are happy renters. We've seen some of our friends lose TONS of money on their homes in the past two years and we're happy we didn't buy! We're going to wait out the whole economic collapse and then figure out home ownership....
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I plan on going back to school (he does as well), so there's no reason for us to buy a home in the next 5-7 years. PhD salaries are not good enough for mortgage payments.
We also live in a HCOL area, so it's definitely a lot cheaper to rent than buy.
We live with his dad. We came so close to getting a house last year but glad we didn't. We've had to use our down payment to help pay for the wedding since my dad took a big pay cut so he wouldn't lose his job, and FI might lose his so we'd really be screwed. We plan on buying the end of next year, which gives us time to figure out where we're going to live. Also, FI may go in the Coast Guard, so we shall see where that takes us
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The mister bought a house with FBIL while we were dating (pre-engagment). I moved in shortly before we officially got engaged... and we will all continue to live there after the wedding. One day when the economy is looking better, we will sell that house and buy our own.
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I owned my home prior to meeting him and he had put an offer on a house the week before we met. His didn't go through due to a bidding war and we're glad it didn't because the house we'll get together in a few months will be closer to 1/2 way between the cities we live in now. We are still 80mins apart presently.
My BFF owned hers and shame on her she always told her DH to leave during an argument...
We house hunted while planning the wedding and closed on the house after we got back from our honeymoon. We were both property virgins before that.
We just got married in October, and immediately moved onto the next project, which was buying a house. We moved last weekend!
He owned a house when we met, we sold that and bought one together -- and it's already appreciating in value (in under 6 months).
Yep! We've been in our house for almost 2 years. Before that, we lived together in a 2-bedroom apartment for 1 year. We've been living in sin for a while now...haha.
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No owning for us for quite a while, due to a long-distance marriage. It just makes absolutely no sense whatsoever to own in two separate places with his massive medical school debt. I'll be in DC until I finish my Ph.D. (another 2-3 years) and we've spent the first year of marriage living together during his intern year, but he moves away for the rest of residency, and i don't know if I'll be able to secure a post-doc where he is doing his residency. It would be foolish to purchase a house for him in his city and me not be able to move there, and then he would need to sell to move where I am... etc.
So, we will continue to rent for quite some time until we are actually able to settle down in one location.
I bought a home while we were dating. He lives there part-time, but it is not considered his home base yet. Everything is in my name, but when he is there, he contributes too.
We were looking all through out our wedding planning process, and we closed 2 months before the wedding. :)
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I moved into his condo that he purchased about 4 months before we started dating (my congratulating him was actually the catalyst for us to start talking again as we had been friends for years prior) ... he has more then graciously always called it ours as well.
Toucan you give me hope! We are currently looking to buy a house and hopefully move in two or three months before the wedding!
We each bought our own townhouse before we got married. I rented out my place (since it is out of state) and now staying with him. We're looking to buy a place together in the near future though.
I've only been working a year and a half, so we still rent for now. Though I have no idea how anyone affords houses ever. $2000 a month, plus taxes, water, electric, cable, food... that's all the money I make in a month. 'Course if we want to live in a crappy little shack, the monthly payments can be as low as $1300 a month. No thank you, I'd rahter rent.
Is it just NJ? I thought houses were supposed to be cheap now.
He moved out of state 2 1/2 years before our wedding date, and bought a house. It was before we were "officially engaged," but we knew that we were getting married. I'm moving after we get back from the honeymoon.
We bought together after we were engaged.
imLizzy, I think it varies all over the country, but NJ is particularly difficult with the highest real estate taxes. Plus, North Jersey is overpriced because of it's relation to NYC and South Jersey has lower costs, but lower pay too. I think anything is negotiable right now in NJ. My friend just bought in NJ for 150K less than list price.
We bought our home two years ago after one year living in an apartment so the stress of buying a home after marriage is not an issue.
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February 08 we started looking at places and found one in the process of being built and we put a down payment on it. It was finished and we moved in in May 08 and then got engaged in November. So we already own a home...pre engagement and marriage :o)
I want a house so badly. We are saving up, hoping to buy one in the spring of 2010. It's hard because we live in DC, where home prices are really high if you want to live anywhere near the city. Both of our jobs are right downtown, so living somewhat nearby is important to me. I don't want to commute from West Virginia like some people do! (That is a 3 hour commute---a little extreme, but living 15 miles away and having a 2-hour commute would not be out of the realm of possibility)
We bought a loft when dating...after a few months! Yikes, but 5 years and another condo later, we're still together! :)
I bought a condo while we were dating (but before we got engaged). While Mr. Sushi did look at houses with me, we had no plans of him moving in with me at the time. Welp, I found a place and he moved in immediately and 7 months later he proposed. :o) We're now saving for a down payment on our next house (probably won't buy for another few years from now).
We hope to be... we're currently working with a morgage broker and a realtor.
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@chelseamorning- I'm in the same situation. We're married and still renting. We rent in Rosslyn (Arlington, VA) and both work so close to where we live. I would love to buy, but we'd have to move pretty far out to afford it- even with housing prices falling.
I know what some of you mean about it being hard because of where you live. I live in the Bay Area and while prices have gone down, they haven't budged too much in the city I want to live in. We've been looking for houses for 2 years and still haven't bought one. We've looked at too many to count and we've put offers in on a few, but we get outbid everytime. We HAVE to buy a house this year because taxes are eating us alive, so we are hoping it will happen soon.
He bought a fixer-upper several months before we met with the good intentions of fixing it up and renting it out. He was still living with his parents (renting, not mooching) and I was living with my grandparents. And then, once we started dating, we knew pretty much right away that we would end up getting married and, naturally, planned to move into the fixer-upper. So, it was kinda nice since we got to do pretty much anything we wanted with the place as far as painting and carpeting was concerned since the old stuff was so discusting. On the other hand we only had a 8 mo. engagement (4 1/2 mo. official engagement), so it was a fight to get it liveable before the wedding (we only moved in together after the wedding). We didn't have bathroom sink or a working shower head until 3 mo. after we were married!
Now to pay it off!
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By the time you are actually married with you actually own a home?