How many homes have you had.

clive0510

I've only ever owned two homes in my life. the 1st was a static caravan on a mobile home site when o/h and myself settled down. it was a big old thing, with coal fired central heating.we bought that with a personal loan from alliance + leicester. (remember them?).told them I needed the money for home improvements! lived in that for 8yrs.
2nd home was this one. a derelict 2up 2down in a state of disrepair. we got it dirt cheap and with the help of parents in laws and various friends got it livable. it took 6 months before it was any where near habitable, during which time we lived in our mobile home, which we then sold for the scrap metal value. 
just wondering what other peoples story is.

luvchocolate

Lived in 22 homes

Trina90

one. Only lived in 2 homes in my life so far - my mum still lives in my childhood home.

Davesnave

Owning homes is different from renting them or living in them as a child, so your all-inclusive title seems ill-fitted to the text which clearly excludes anything but owned homes.

SameOldRoundabout

Renting? Loads. Maybe 12? I’ve owned two, our first was a leg up onto they ladder, this is our long term home and I’d like to stay until we are in a position to downsize and retire to another house. 

tweet86

Do you mean bought homes or rentals? 

We’ve only had one bought property- lived in it for 9 years and sold it this year. We’re currently renting while we purchase a new house. It will be my second house and we’re hoping to be there for 20+ years 

clive0510

tweet86 said:

Do you mean bought homes or rentals? 

We’ve only had one bought property- lived in it for 9 years and sold it this year. We’re currently renting while we purchase a new house. It will be my second house and we’re hoping to be there for 20+ years 

thats a very good point actually. I've never rented in my life. so I suppose I really meant how many homes have you bought or owned, as opposed to 'had'. forgive me my bad wording, people.

JGB1955

Homes?  I guess ,when you're a child, home is where you live with your parents - except my father worked on BP tankers and my mother followed him... so my home for the first 5 years was with my grandmother.  Then my father joined the RAF so our 'homes' until I was 18 years old, were various Officers Married Quarters around the world. 12 schools later I joined the 'real' world of flat sharing in London.  Met my husband and, 40+ years, 2 children, 4 grandchildren  and 3 houses later, live in my final home... or so I'm told... I've had itchy feet for 36 years so, if he goes first, I'm off !

OldMusicGuy

Just buying my seventh house, also rented three (between sale/purchase or for temporary work assignment).

I should add I hope this is the last one, although there may be a retirement flat in there before I peg it or reach the care home.......

fiwen30

Not sure if you mean lived in, rented, or owned houses?

Lived in an American-style motor home in Spain till I was 2, a tiny red brick labourers cottage in a Norfolk village till I was about 5; an ancient stone cottage surrounded by fields in Derby, with only an open fire for heat, till I was 10; a proper country village cottage till I was 19; a large 70’s semi in County Down, which hadn’t been touched since the 70’s; a small, more modern mid terrace 100 paces up the road, with disabled facilities for my mum, 2 years later; back into the 70’s semi for 2 years, which got half of a facelift before the relationship broke down; and now 4 years spent in a 40’sish mid terrace that is as quaint as it is quarrelsome.

The last 4 have been rentals, and we’re in the process of buying for the first time - a sweet chalet bungalow - which should happily see us through the next 5-10 years.

AdrianC

Home? After I left my parents' place for uni, I still regarded their house as "home" for years, despite not living there for years - or even having the vaguest desire to live there. I was deluding myself, obvs.