Young Homeowners Persist

[dancerjodi]

A lot of you know Emily - here's an article I had to share in case you hadn't seen it:
http://www.boston.com/realestate/news/articles/2006/05/07/young_home_hunters_persist/

Change Dorchester for Waltham, make the combined income a bit higher, make the condo a house, make the purchase price higher, and you have our situation. Everything: the desire to stay in the hood, the confusion about a changing neighborhood, parents blaming "yuppies" for it all ('but you guys don't count'), the first time homebuyer class, endless searching and looking at piece of crap homes, and finally, that lucky one that we were able to make work.

Its got funk, but its our funk. I still can't believe that we did it sometimes. :)

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I am totally vibing with you on this one! :-) We spent months looking for teh right house, and when the one in Rockport popped up, and we got it for 30k under our absolute max price, I was stunned.. and in neverland for awhile. The mortgage is substantially higher than our previous rent, so we've been stretched a bit as well, but at least we aren't shoveling our money into a coal furnace.

Our house, too, has character and needs work. That was the only way we got it at the price point we did. We've put off much of that until this year (after J was out of school) but now we're going to be attacking things with a vengence. I can't wait to demo the old kitchen!

I think I've finally 'gotten' that we OWN the thing. Never thought that would happen (owning a nice house, that is).