When did your parents sell your childhood home?

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Anonymous wrote:I did after my mom died. I was 28. It was an unexpected death so I had to empty the house and then sell it.

Same here, except I was 24.

I would love to sell our house, because it and the grounds take more time to maintain than we have. But DH hates change, so here we are.

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My parents both died fairly recently and the house has just gone under contract. Clearing out the house and letting go was a wrenching experience.

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We still live in the only house only remembered by most of my children. They were sad when 1 set of GP houses was empty due to moving to nursing home then sold. We don't live in the house where they lived as tots which has many memories for me.

People I know have children mostly in another state [not DC area] and were moving there upon retirement. It took years for the kids to clean out their stuff. One relative still has so much stuff of her kids some of whom are parents with their own larger houses. I've been asking some of my kids to sort/discard all stuff down to 2 large storage bins plus 1 small for our downsizing.....

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Shortly after my mom died, when I was 25. It was really sad, but it made no sense for my dad to live in such a big place by himself and it was hard for him to be there alone.

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My parents sold the house they lived in for their entire marriage just last year. They ended up buying a retirement house somewhere warmer with lower taxes. I was really sad when they sold it and definitely cried but they are so happy in their new place it makes it easier. I am in my 30s.

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My parents lost their home in a foreclosure in '08 when I was almost 18. I still drive by sometimes because it was such a POS but home.

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I was 20 and it broke my heart. I still feel sad about it, I'm in my 40s! If I could I'd buy it back. Loved that house, it was old with beautiful woodwork....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I did after my mom died. I was 28. It was an unexpected death so I had to empty the house and then sell it.

Hi PP,

My situation is not as sad as yours but I will also have to empty a house and sell it in the near future. I feel completely overwhelmed and there are days when I just want to order a dumpster. But then I fear throwing out the good with the bad...

Do you feel satisfied with how you handled the process? What do you recommend? What would you do differently?

[Anonymous]

Well, we moved from the East Coast to the West Coast when I was 13--so my "childhood home" was sold in my early teens. But my "teenage home", they sold that around the time I graduated college (age 22.) My dad got a new job in a city about an hour and a half from where they lived, so they sold the house and moved closer to his new job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My parents lost their home in a foreclosure in '08 when I was almost 18. I still drive by sometimes because it was such a POS but home.

This may happen to me soon In as much as I don't want a foreclosure, I cannot wait until I am no longer bound to that house. It has been such a source of stress for me. Did your parents recover (in any sense of the word)?

[Anonymous]

We moved once when I was 12 and sold that house. But my parents still live in the same house I lived in for middle and high school. I think they need to downsize - it is way to big for just the two of them.

But it is really nice to have all that space when my sisters and I and our families all go home (I am 40).

[Anonymous]

2 years ago when I was 30. My parents had lived there for 35 years so LOtS to clean out, donate, sell, and store. It had been on the market for a few years (my mother was being less than reasonable about the asking price) so by the time it was sold, we were all very ready for it to be gone!

Now if my parents were to sell the cottage they bought with my grandparents before I was born, I'd be really torn up over it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My parents lost their home in a foreclosure in '08 when I was almost 18. I still drive by sometimes because it was such a POS but home.

This may happen to me soon In as much as I don't want a foreclosure, I cannot wait until I am no longer bound to that house. It has been such a source of stress for me. Did your parents recover (in any sense of the word)?

Yes and no. We ended up in a stable homeless shelter (not like the ones you see in the movies, it was like an apartment and it helped you get on your feet) , and then my parents lived with my grandpa with my younger siblings and I lived with my aunt.

After about a year, they were able to find a place on their own (I went to college and found my own stability there) and now the foreclosure has been deleted from my stepdad's credit almost ten years later. He is a car haul driver, my mom is SAHM but he is now career transitioning. They have a lofty amount of savings but it was a hard two years. They are now looking to buy a smaller home for them and my youngest brother. My stepdad still carries a lot of guilt, it was the house of his grandparents and I still hold resentment to him from time to time for losing stability and forcing our family apart.

[Anonymous]

My dad sold the house the second my little brother left for college. So I guess I was 20. My folks divorced a year or two prior.

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My mom remarried and her new husband moved in. Never the same. He made us unwelcome.