s/o How old are you? What kind of house do you live in?

[Anonymous]

33 own a condo 2 bed 1 bath in the heart,of Shirlington

[Anonymous]

Both 49. Bought a row house in Logan Circle in 2000 for $430k. 4 floors but needs work and has for the duration we have had it. Dumb luck in terms of neighborhood etc. Kids have to leave the hood for school.

[Anonymous]

40 years old. We are putting our house on the market in Feb for 1.4 million. Buying something about 1.6-1.7 million.

[Anonymous]

38 and rent a studio apartment (650 sq feet). Gasp! But I actually love my apartment, I love the layout and the location and it's so nice to get free coffee every day in the lobby and have maintenance fix anything or change lightbulbs within a couple hours of putting in a request. I love dropping off dry-cleaning at the front desk and getting it back the next day. I wouldn't change it.

[Anonymous]

I’m a 42 year old woman in your typical suburban McMansion. I hate it, these were options though in the area we transferred to. As soon as it makes sense financially I’m building and I’m building much smaller (though in the same area).

[Anonymous]

Well here was our history at 26 and 28 not married we bought a 3 bedroom in AU park for 360k sold three years later for 690k, due to housing market boom, bought in McLean 4 bedroom for 750k sold for 1.2 at ages 35 and 37 purchased 3m house

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread makes me feel sad.
I just turned 27, I rent a small apt.

You're doing just fine. I'm 33, I live alone in a basement apartment.
I'm buying a house with my partner later this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are in our mid 30's with two school-aged children. We live in a 4 bdrm. colonial in Arlington. We are getting ready to do a pretty substantial addition.

Prior to that, DH bought a townhouse in Arlington at age 27 which we sold in 2005 (to have the money to buy our current house).

We are not lawyers and have never received any type of financial assistance (after graduating from undergrad) from our parents. So, you don't have to be "Biglaw" or have a trust fund to make it in this town. DH has a really good job, we send our children to a great public school, and we live within our means.

OK. But you bought, presumably, several years before 2005. Which is something younger people in this town couldn't have done, and now breaking into the market is a completely, wildly different thing.

Even in 2003 it was competitive. Houses were gone in a day. I was 18, raised in arlington but the cutthroat out of towners beat me to it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:38 and rent a studio apartment (650 sq feet). Gasp! But I actually love my apartment, I love the layout and the location and it's so nice to get free coffee every day in the lobby and have maintenance fix anything or change lightbulbs within a couple hours of putting in a request. I love dropping off dry-cleaning at the front desk and getting it back the next day. I wouldn't change it.

I’m your age and live in a house and your situation sounds amazing.

[Anonymous]

Early thirties, own a row house in Bloomingdale we bought for about $600k in 2013. Rent out the basement studio apartment for $100.

The house is lovely but not newly renovated like a lot on the market here. We've done some updates but it's still an old house. I worry about putting too much money into it because we can't compete with the brand new renos in our neighborhood now. But, we love our little house and want to stay a few more years at least.

Have a 1 yo son and when it's time for school we think we want to move to AU Park. Hoping we can sell at a price that makes that an option for us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Early thirties, own a row house in Bloomingdale we bought for about $600k in 2013. Rent out the basement studio apartment for $100.

The house is lovely but not newly renovated like a lot on the market here. We've done some updates but it's still an old house. I worry about putting too much money into it because we can't compete with the brand new renos in our neighborhood now. But, we love our little house and want to stay a few more years at least.

Have a 1 yo son and when it's time for school we think we want to move to AU Park. Hoping we can sell at a price that makes that an option for us.

Oops, we rent it out for $1000, not 100.

[Anonymous]

38, spouse 40, 2000 sqft colonial in Friendship Heights. Moved two years ago from the townhouse in Rockville bought when we were 28/30.

[Anonymous]

35/36, 4bd, 3.5 ba in North Brightwood that we got for under $700k. Down payment came from my husband's condo in Columbia Heights that appreciated 33% (!!) in 4 years. Hoping to get another smile from the RE gods when the Walter Reed redevelopment comes online, but happy with what we got and the price we paid for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread makes me feel sad.
I just turned 27, I rent a small apt.

This, except I’m 34.

[Anonymous]

30. Bought our 700k house at 27 with my husband. Dual feds making 150k. We had a previous townhouse we sold to afford the house.