“I wanted (and got!) a cute little mid-century modern home and was very proud of it. But in less than five years, every major system has prematurely failed and required replacing, costing me tens of thousands of dollars.' 😳
, and as it turns out,"regret" can look really different from person to person. These are just some of their responses."My in-laws wanted to move, so they offered to 'gift' us the down payment if we bought their house. It was the house my husband grew up in, so he was instantly on board.
"That was just the start of it, too. Almost $100K in repairs and three years later, I sold it in much better shape than when I moved in..."I live in an area with a very competitive real estate market, so when the opportunity came up to buy my grandparents’ house and subsequently avoid all that competition, I was over the moon.
"Dry wall screws held pretty much everything together, the pipe from the toilet was went OUTSIDE the house and froze solid all winter long, and the basement pipes were cracked and rusting. The bathroom window literally didn't close — and yet I ended up paying full market price for it. I was so unprepared for homeownership. When the market crashed, I was over $50K 'upside down' on my mortgage and basically throwing my monthly payments into an abyss.
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