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Who "owns" the debt to your home?

posted 10 months ago in Home
  • poll: Who owns the debt to your home.
    I do : (8 votes)
    16 %
    My SO does : (19 votes)
    39 %
    We both do : (22 votes)
    45 %
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    panterapeach    April 2011  

    DH and I have a home, I consider it OUR home, we found it together, we pay for it together. 

    I have never and will never say it is MY house...but technically I own the debt. :)

    I am just curious....homeowners of the hive Who "owns" the debt to your home (who is on the loan)

     

     
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    KansasPrincess11    January 8, 2011  

    When "we" bought our house we weren't married (or engaged yet) although we did buy this house knowing it would be "our" home. I was still a student and not making hardly any money so it was a joint decision that the home would be in his name until after the wedding. We've not put my name on the house and honestly I'm not sure we'll bother with it until after we move next year, it's a ton of paperwork and I'm not really worried about anything going down, haha!

     
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    panterapeach    April 2011  

    @KansasPrincess11:  Thats the same for us.  We weren't even engaged yet but we knew we were looking for our forever home. Like you, I'm not really worried about anything going down and me being stuck with the debt.

     
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    MissAsB    June 6, 2009   Married in CO, Living in AL

    The house we own is owned jointly.  Credit was pretty easy back then and we both had pretty good scores.  If one of us couldn't qualify for a mortgage, we would have kept the home in that person's name only.

     
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    OttawaBride2011    May 21, 2011   Ottawa, Ontario

    We are both on the mortgage :)

     
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    TheMrs2013    June 8, 2013   NH

    He is the only one on the mortgage. I made some pretty poor choices financially several years ago that impacted my credit so I (not him) was adamant that my name be nowhere on that loan! LOL! We have provisions in place so that if anything happens to him, the house won't be pulled out from under me. Maybe someday, we will revisit having my name on the loan. But for now, this is working for us!

     
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    eeniebeans    October 9, 2010   Baltimore

    We live in his house.  I still own a house with my ex-husband that we can't sell due to it being upside-down.

     
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    coffeegal85    August 11, 2012   Ohio

    Both my FI and I own the debt, but I put down the huge downpayment.  Sometimes I feel like it is more my house, than his...lol, jk!

     
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    Georgia Bee    October 9, 2010   Atlanta

    He owns the house here.  When he bought it, we weren't engaged and no matter what, I wasn't willing to put my name on another mortgage.

    I have a house in another state that only I own (purchased long before I met him)--can't sell it

     
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    Oneeleven    April 7, 1992   Ontario, Canada, Getting married in the Mayan Riviera

    He owns the house/debt.  He actually bought it with the ex wife but bought her out when they separated.

     

     
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    ccranetobe    August 14, 2010  

    Both our names are on it. :)

     
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    kperry3    January 1, 1991  

    I thought once you get married you inquire each other's debt from the time you're married.

     
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    MrsSl82be    October 24, 2009  

    We are both owners, never a question that we would both be one it even if we found a house before we got married

     
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    Oneeleven    April 7, 1992   Ontario, Canada, Getting married in the Mayan Riviera

    @kperry3:

    I think that is true, but I am not sure how it all works.

     

     
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    Vitsippa    October 10, 2010  

    Both of us.

     
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    SoontobeMrsA    June 2012   MA/NH line

    Mr. A is the only name on the mortgage because of some credit issues I had before I met him. My name is, however, on the deed.

     
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    Gabrielle123    November 5, 2011  

    The mortgage is under FI's name. He bought the house before we got engaged

     
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    Soon2beeMrsM    October 2010   NY

    We picked out the house together and each pay the bills but DH's name is on the paperwork because we weren't engaged or married when it was bought. We both think of it as our house though. Our next home will have both our names on it, it was just too much $ and paperwork to change after the wedding.

     

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