What made you choose your home?

[Spinneret]

Really comfortable

 

[grapefruitjellybean]

I could afford it, there wasn’t a bidding war, the location, and it wasn’t a hundred year old monstrosity that needed to be gutted and full renovated, ROI. But not in that order.

 

[TCRAIG]

Tall ceilings, large rooms, dual masters, older established neighborhood with lots of trees and NINE walk in closets!!!! (Plus a walk in attic and various other std closets).

 

[AnnaS]

Affordable, easy to maintain and a quiet, small/short street.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Location, necessary features, and availability.

 

[Boopuff]

The mountain view, backing up to a golf course. (no one lives behind us at all... perfect)

 

[Forevermarypoppins]

Location and cost
We had our home built. Nothing fancy, only 1400 sq ft. Been here almost 28 years now.

 

[nene0182]

It was affordable, quiet one way street, old with character, and the good sized covered porch complete with a porch swing.

 

[tvguy]

Floor plan, it was 1756 square feet, it was only 4 years old, and price.
We figured it would be our first and last house, and 40 years later, that seems to be the case.
It was huge for the two of us, it got tiny 10 years later when we had 2 kids, so we added on.
Now with just two of us, it is huge again at 2010 square feet with the addition.
Only negatives was it was 10 miles from work, which was about twice as far as we wanted to be, but that turned out not to be an issue. And every window had security bars attached with one way screws, no emergency interior release. Turns out the owners did not consider them security bars, they were huge fans of wrought iron, and much of their furniture inside was wrought iron. The day we took possession I was out there with a file and vice grips taking the bars down, while the alarm guy put in an alarm system. I made a lot of friends in the neighborhood that day because they were baffled why the bars were on the house. I donated the bars to the fire department who used them in their mobile fire safety house, showing things you should never do to your house.

 

[leebee]

They accepted our bid. We live in a small college town where decent homes in our price range were hard to come by, and sold almost immediately. We missed out on 7 houses in our area. By the time we could see it and put in an offer, the house was already under contract. I just happened to be on the phone with my realtor when she saw a new listing and asked how soon I could go see the house. We met here about 30 minutes later and walked through. It didn't have a lot of the things we wanted, it needed some repairs, but I knew it'd "work" for us. We sat at the kitchen peninsula and wrote a full-price offer which was accepted by the end of business that day.

 

[Ronaldo17]

Location, cost, new build, large secluded south facing rear garden.

 

[disneychrista]

Had 3 bedrooms and a backyard for the dog and I could afford it.

 

[luvnwdwgal]

I didn’t. My husband had already bought an early 1800’s MAJOR fixer upper when I met him. It sold for 10 grand in 1979 and it was a disaster when I first saw it in 1980. Little did I know, almost 43 years later, it’s still not done.

 

[meggiebeth]

It was one of the only ones available with the number of bedrooms we needed I suppose. Houses are scarce in southern England and so you kind of have to take what you can get. Houses in desirable locations go for more than market value and sell quickly because there are so few of them.

 

[LoveSpringsteen]

The house was in our price range, located in between both of our jobs and although it was extremely dated inside, it was well cared for and clean.

 

[indimom]

Every house we looked at had 3b/2b. Some had a garage or basement, which this house did not have.....
But, I fell in love with the high ceilings, large windows with lots of light; and, the "just right" yard.

 

[footballmouse]

school district

 

[Moliphino]

We had been looking for over two years. It was the first house we loved since one we saw on our first week looking that we lost out on. Great location, within budget, fit most of our wants (and exceeded a few).

 

[RUDisney]

Size, location, price (realtors wanted to show us fixer uppers for less than what we wanted to spend) and we never wanted to have to move because we had a family. We called it our starter home for a long time as a joke. One of my sister's friends asked me, "if this is where you're starting, where do you want to end up?" I had to explain that it was a joke... just like a friend of mine built a $1M home on a lake and called it is cottage.

ETA: And... it had a 14-foot wet bar in one room.

 

[holden]

Location and size of property - 6 acres.