Individuals Home Buying Experience

New York First Time Home Buyers Story  New York is a different animal when it comes to closing on a home. We use attorneys here for the closing, which is called 'escrow' in other parts of the ...

Financing Delays  When home prices started dropping in 2008, I and my wife decided it was a good time to purchase a home. We spent weeks looking at many properties on line ...

Buying My First Home  It was finally time to move out of my parent’s house. I didn’t want to move out but, I thought it was time because I was old enough and had a good job ...

The Law Of Attraction Got Us A House!  A couple of years ago, I was living in a small apartment, at an apartment complex in Indiana. My daughter, son-in-law and grandson were living in a similar ...

Home Buying Nightmare  Friends of ours wanted a holiday home. After years of slaving away they finally had the money. Everything was well planned. They looked on the internet ...

First Home in Richmond, VA  My wife and I moved to Richmond, Virginia from Austin TX in the spring of 2002. Newly married, we were ready to search for our first new home. Neither ...

Homebuying is a Big Investment  My parents did not have their own home. We were living in a rented house. Every year our landlord increased the rent. Then we were left with two options ...

Purchasing a Coworker's Home  The decision to buy my house was pretty much a spur of the moment idea. My coworker had placed her home on the market several months prior to my family ...

Bliss in a Bungalow  We were newlyweds and our love for the ocean was consuming our leisure time in a most luxuriating manner. To return to our apartment after a day on the ...

Buy a Home Online  My story of homebuying turned out to be a wonderful experience. I am in the US Army, and while deployed to Iraq I decided to see if I could buy a home,...

My Home  I had just found out I was pregnant with twins and we decided we needed a bigger home. I searched the internet and newspapers for hours. Once I found some ...

Got Very Lucky Buying Our Home  My girlfriend and I kind of got ourselves into a sticky situation. We were running out of time on our current apartment lease and did not want to resign ...

My Lovely House  When I met my girlfriend, we fell in love. After one year and our relationship was continuing to grow, we agreed to buy a house. So began our search for ...

My Auction Experience  I have always loved historical buildings and had never owned a home, so when the apartments in the first skyscraper in Memphis went condo, I knew that ...

Buying our House - A Bit of a Fiasco  My wife and I were in the market to buy a home for the first time in late 2002. We were recently married and had an expanding family on the way. We live ...

Getting Away From the Loud Neighbors  My wife and I were married and living in a four complex apartment. Nothing really to look at but the neighbors were really annoying. All times during night ...

My Only Home Buying Experience  Sharon and I had always lived in apartments or rental houses, so neither of us had any experience buying a house. We had enough money for a down payment ...

Buying a Home a Dream or Nightmare  I purchased my home in the middle of December. Upon returning home from spending Christmas with my parents, my life as a homeowner began. I returned to ...

How Difficult Home Buying Can Be  Several years ago one of my friends wanted to sell his house and buy a flat as he has always wanted to live in a small flat and not in a big house where ...

Buying a Home After Bad Credit Hell  I graduated from the University in December of 2007. After working a few part time jobs I was offered a teaching contract in a small town in Arizona. The ...

To Buy or Rent...That is the Question!  The concentration in this life is always on the house. This is because it is the main place where you and your family often spend most of your time. For ...

Homebuying - Help From the Person Upstairs!  We purchased our home, in Florida, is 2005. Our previous home was being bought by the state, and we were given a fair price to move out. We made arrangements ...

Short Sale Completed in South Florida  I decided to venture into the magical world of home buying in May 2009. It seemed like the correct time to buy a house. I usually do a lot of research ...

I Bought a Home and Made Money!  Homebuying today is an experience beyond what is the norm when builders are working, and housing starts are up. Today the economic recession has left ...

Our First Little Home  In 2008 my wife and I finally reached Tennessee. I am in the military, so bouncing around is a way of life. We had just returned to the states from Korea,...

Our First Home  My husband and I just got married and during that time we decided to buy a new house. A new home where we could start a new family of our own. We experienced ...

Found a Home in Almost a Day  Seven years ago, my husband and I were moving from New Hampshire to Ohio, and had very little time to find a place to live. Being newlyweds, we didn't ...

First-time Buyer in Cedar Rapids, IA  Being in a committed relationship, my girlfriend and I decided it was time to buy a house together. We went to open houses every single weekend in Cedar ...

Our First Home - A Foreclosure  It was November of 1993 when I started on my own search for a home. Months before, I had seen a picture in the newspaper of a two-story looking home and ...

First Time Buyers!  My boyfriend and I made the decision in March to buy a home. We had been renting an apartment for several years, and it just didn't make sense to keep ...

Buying My Home in Des Moines  I bought a house when I moved to Des Moines, Iowa. I started the process by obtaining a Realtor. The Realtor first gave me a general tour of Des Moines ...

First-Time Home Buyers   My wife and I had been married for six-months when we decided to look for our first home. We had a Realtor recommended to us and we started to look for ...

A Home for the Baby  When I got pregnant with my first child, we were living in a very small two bedroom apartment in a bad neighborhood. Of course, being pregnant and hormonal,...

The Hunt for a Home  In March 2009, my husband and I decided to look for a house. We were tired of our cramped, 1-bed 1-bath apartment. We looked at many houses. Came close ...

Foreclosed Day After Closing On Our First Home!  My husband and I were searching for that one house - you know, the one that you say "Ah, I'm home". That one. We had waited 23 years to buy this house ...

My First Georgia Home  My experience in buying my first home has been quiet a roller coaster ride. It has been exciting though. I come from Massachusetts and am moving to Georgia ...

Be Aware Of All The Facts Before Buying A House  I would like to share the house buying story of my friend. She decided to buy house at the outer of city in Chennai. Her husband is working in Dubai and ...

My Home Buying Experience  I bought a home in late November, 2009. The home itself has been great but the paperwork part of the process was awful. I got a letter in the mail from ...

Relocated and Loving It!  My husband was transferred to Michigan for his new job last year. We'd never lived away from our home town in Alabama before, so this was really a huge ...

Buying a House in the Suburbs  We bought our present house about a year ago, and it is a house in the suburbs. Most of our search for the house was done online, where I personally scoured ...

My Great Homebuying Experience with Awesome Realtor  My husband and I had a GREAT Realtor, getting financing however was not so easy. My husband had less than perfect credit. When I went to our bank to apply ...

My Habitat for Humanity Home  I am disabled and lived with my two children in a substandard apartment for 15 years. I couldn’t use my walker in the bathroom as it wouldn’t fit through ...

First Time Homebuying Not a Charm  In December of 2009 I was twenty, in a University and looking for a way to make extra money. While already spending most of my packed schedule on a casual ...

Buying My Dream Condo in Chicago - And a Bit of Good Advice  I had always wanted to live in this particular building. Great views, great location, a really nice building. However, units rarely came up for sale,...

Buying My Dream House  I don't even know where to start, I wish I could say my experience was good, unfortunately, although it turned okay in the end, the road was filled with ...

Finally Our New Home!  My husband and I decided to start our quest for a new home with a trip to the bank. We sat down and made a budget, worked out our finances and went to ...

Currently Buying Our First Home  My husband and I are currently in the process of buying our first home. Buying our first home is not nearly as simple as it sounds! A lot goes into buying ...

My Realtor Made My Homebuying Experience Awesome!  I can honestly say that my experiences with real estate agents have not always been positive ones. In the past I have had some very harsh words for some ...

First Time Home Buyer  My home-buying experience was a learning experience, as I was a first-time home buyer without knowledge of the home-buying process. It was both fun and ...

A First Time Home Buyer  After having moved my wife away from her hometown for several years, we decided it was time for her to return and began our move. One of our goals was ...

Buying a Fixer-Upper Home  When my family decided to move, we agreed we wanted a smaller house, something charming and “cozy”. This meant that we looked for months because anything ...

The House Up For Auction that Got Away  After looking at dozens of houses, going through inspections on plenty of them and finding out that the $150k 1960's era house typically required another ...

Buying a House is Like the Saying - A Watched Flower May Never Bloom but an Untended Willow Grows  Buying a house is one of the biggest investment activities for an ordinary family and normally it takes a lot of investigation and serious consideration....

Trials of Buying a Home From a Co-worker  It seemed too good to be true. Our expanding family was pushing us out of our first home, and my husband's co-worker was about to put his perfect home ...

My First Home Buying Experience  Since I am the owner of this website, I wanted to demonstrate how you can share your own home buying experience. So I will tell my story. The first home ...