$72k in 1991
Custom built 3 bdr, 2 bath, 2 car garage, on 2+ acres.
Custom built 3 bdr, 2 bath, 2 car garage, on 2+ acres.
How much was your first house?
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$42000 in 1984. 1100 sq/ft. Two car garage. And my neighbor was HOT!
1988-$51,500 Brick Ranch Style 3 BR/2.0 Bathrooms 2 Car Garage
2/1 with a garage about 1000 sf. $26,500..
We lived in a rented place for a year after marriage. First 'owned house' was a second hand 12x44 mobile home. Cost $3200. Lived there about 5 years before the farm where we now live came up for sale.
Life was stressful but in a way simpler back then. Had NO money so didn't have to worry about how to spend--just food, electricity, and and insurance.
Life was stressful but in a way simpler back then. Had NO money so didn't have to worry about how to spend--just food, electricity, and and insurance.
loaded round
Hunter
1968 3 bdrm ranch 1350 sf on 3/4 ac. and paid 18,300. 00 for it, 50 % cash down with mortgage payments around 88.00/mo. I believe. Sill here and the price now is around 310,000.00 if we were to sell it. But why? Not ready for the Senior Center quite yet!.
1973. New 3 bedroom, 2 bath, brick, no garage. $23,500. 2023. New 3 bedroom, 2 bath, brick, with double garage. $370,000.
bobski
Hunter
129,000 1990. sold for 275,000 15 years later. va beach.
Wow. 1979, $80,000. 3 bedroom 2 bath. Comparatively high. But one word explains that. Beach.
I built my first house, with some help from my dad. It was only 880 sq ft total. 2 br, 1 bath. It was a pay-as-I-went dream, as I had no credit. Started digging a footer by hand at age 21 in 1983; finished the house, got married and moved in 2 years later. I did all the work myself, except for framing/rafters (my dad and my brother-in-law helped me do those). Rafter pitch and angle are a puzzle to me, but my brother-in-law can read a square. I dug the footer, poured the concrete, laid the blocks, did the wiring, plumbing, shingling, etc... I ended up with almost $19k in it. I bargain-shopped for sheetrock, lumber, paneling, etc...
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Ray Newman
Blackhawk
1969: 3 small bedrooms, 1 car attached garage in San Lorenzo CA., US $25,000.
Rich/KY
Bearcat
1991: First house we bought since I was in the Army and this was our retirement home. About 3200 sq ft living space with five bedrooms, master with en-suite on first floor, second floor with full bath and three double bedrooms and a small single. Big kitchen, dining room, living room, office and half bath. Two car garage and full basement. Old barn, 36X54 machine shed, and a few old buildings. Came with 60 acres. Paid $130K and probably spent another $100K over the next 20 years renovating, remodeling, adding an attached greenhouse and $42K adding an adjoining 72 acres. My son has the house and 17 acres now and he and his wife also did some serious remodeling. Not sure the current value but likely in the $500K plus range.
GypsmJim
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1974: $25,400. One acre lot, 2 bedroom expandable cape cod, 2 car garage that was formerly used as a summer cottage. Garage was 30 years old, house was 20.
1974 - 1988: $2,000 spent adding 2 bedrooms in the upstairs, finished the basement and did landscaping.
1988: $62,000 Sold the house.
2020: $320,000 is what the next owners sold the house for after adding a family room addition and updating the kitchen and bath.
1974 - 1988: $2,000 spent adding 2 bedrooms in the upstairs, finished the basement and did landscaping.
1988: $62,000 Sold the house.
2020: $320,000 is what the next owners sold the house for after adding a family room addition and updating the kitchen and bath.
1979: $85,000, 2 bed 1 bath in San Francisco's Outer Sunset district, near the beach. Now valued at 1.2 million supposedly. The real estate market is fairly warm out here right now, which works for us, since we're thinking of moving to Placerville.
1966 . . . Three-bedroom ranch . . . two blocks from the Country Club . . . $16K.
1988 bought a 900 SF house for $50K. Sold it in 1999 for $80K.
The house that I actually own now and paid for is a 2 bedroom 1 bath ranch on a 107'x140' lot that cost 68K in 1999. I paid off 2 places for my parents which I had stolen from me because the deeds were filed in my dad's name for the senior tax break when he turned 65. The will wasn't filed so the property went to my mother when he died. I got 14K from the sale of those properties and the rest of my dad's 1.3M estate was blown for drugs and gambling and toys by people who never worked for anything.
I built our first house in 1981. It was just over 1000 sq ft and the house was $20,000 and the lot was $12,000 so $32,000.
Don Lovel
Hunter
Tulsa 1985 $42,500
It was a HUD flip that ALL of the plumbing, gas lines and roof leaked after the flipping realtor sold it. We protested with the lendor and gave deed in lieu of foreclosure after staying there 8 months rent free and minimal damage to our credit.
It was a HUD flip that ALL of the plumbing, gas lines and roof leaked after the flipping realtor sold it. We protested with the lendor and gave deed in lieu of foreclosure after staying there 8 months rent free and minimal damage to our credit.
rem58sport
Bearcat
1980, 1,300 sf 3 & 2 split level, new track home 45 minutes north of the Golden Gate Bridge - $69K @ 19% interest.
