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How long did you stay in your first house for?
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How old were you when you had your 1st snog?
As many answers as there are people!
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22 years!I'm still in it, cos it's big enough and in a nice area, so there's no point in moving:D:D"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf"
(Kabat-Zinn 2004):D:D:D0 -
Our first house was never going to be our home (different part of the country and we had accommodation with work) but circumstances changed and we ending up moving in! 18 months we stayed then moved back to where we were before and love it!0
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2.5 yrs, promotion meant move 60 miles away.If you are querying your Council Tax band would you please state whether you are in England, Scotland or Wales0
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We lived in our house 1976-2004. Still own it, son lives in it now, we live half the year in Spain (and the other half in the UK house).
When we finished the mortgage in the 1990s, various people said to us 'so you will be getting a bigger/better/more rural place then?' But as we thought about it we realised our three-bedroom terraced house in what I call the outer-inner-city was paid for, was big enough, we liked the area and what was the point of moving. So we stayed.
I can't see us selling it in the forseeable future.(AKA HRH_MUngo)
Member #10 of £2 savers club
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton0 -
redhead123 wrote: »I bought my house a year and a half ago (June 2008) and am thinking of trying to sell to move in with my OH or get a bigger house with him. It's a tiny 2 bed terrace, cottage-y feel. I just wondered how long you stayed in your first time buy before you sold up?
Don't. Keep your finances separate. If you get a joint mortgage and have a property in both names, you can do nothing (short of court action to force a sale) if the other party will not agree to sell. You are saddled with the mortgage and cannot get your equity back.
My "perfect" relationship went sour on this and cost me hundreds of thousands.
Keep your place, rent it out if you have to or just move in with him, rent your out and pay him some rent. No need to join finances and properties.0 -
Oh, I bought my first house as a doer upper! Way back, took 18 months before we finished and moved in - april and then put it on the market in August I hated living there, fortunate we had an offer in 2 weeks for full asking! Although back in 1992 £25,000 does not seem alot of money!0
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It's all so long ago!
Caravan: 2 years
SO studio: 7 years
House: 7 years0 -
It wasn't! My 50% share of a SO studio, on a council road, two villages away from town, was worth £25,000 in 1992!purpletopaz wrote: »Although back in 1992 £25,000 does not seem alot of money!0
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