House Hunting Sucks When...

[Anonymous]

You are not funny, you are not whitty, you are mean. Calling someones future child a spawn for no reason? Completely unecessary and just plain wrong for an adult to even say. You got called out for being rude on a discussion on people buying homes for their future families and now are acting like a child bc you were trolling around looking to pick a fight. Grow up.

Different PP here - I think you need to calm down, take a deep breath, and go look up the definition of spawn. Unless you've got some irrational hatred of mollusks or mushrooms, I don't know why you're getting so upset.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

You are not funny, you are not whitty, you are mean. Calling someones future child a spawn for no reason? Completely unecessary and just plain wrong for an adult to even say. You got called out for being rude on a discussion on people buying homes for their future families and now are acting like a child bc you were trolling around looking to pick a fight. Grow up.

Different PP here - I think you need to calm down, take a deep breath, and go look up the definition of spawn. Unless you've got some irrational hatred of mollusks or mushrooms, I don't know why you're getting so upset.

The nature of her and other posts were just unnecessary. Thanks I have an opinion and I shared it.

[Anonymous]

Believe it or not, it sucks at almost any price range. In part because your expectations are that much greater. Many people would kill for a $600K or even a $400K budget.

We are looking for a house with a $2M budget in downtown DC proper, and my spouse would tell you that it sucks. Either there is nothing that has all of our wants (and I don't think our list is that crazy) or it is snatched up by someone paying all cash.

[Anonymous]

You know what - we are really, really, really happy with our 2BA/1BA North Arlington house. Seriously, children don't take up (or need) much space.

[Anonymous]

OP- I feel for you. We had a very limited budget for our first home and had to settle for a location we weren't thrilled about. For our next house, we had a larger income and a bigger budget, but we looked and looked and finally found a house in a neighborhood we loved, but had to settle on a small house with a tiny kitchen. Now we have a fairly big budget (not quite PP's $2M- I wish!) and I feel like we should be able to afford a large house in a good neighborhood, but I am realizing even at our budget, we'll have to settle on something.

[Anonymous]

HAHA TRy buying w/ a $180k budget.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:HAHA TRy buying w/ a $180k budget.

Yup! "Slumming" here in Prince George's County.

[Anonymous]

We are looking for a house with a $2M budget in downtown DC proper, and my spouse would tell you that it sucks. Either there is nothing that has all of our wants (and I don't think our list is that crazy) or it is snatched up by someone paying all cash.

Just curious, what are "all your wants?"

I would think with 2 m budget you could get a pretty nice house, or afford to upgrade it to what you want?

(signed, much smaller budget with surprise 3rd kid on the way)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
You are not funny, you are not whitty, you are mean. Calling someones future child a spawn for no reason? Completely unecessary and just plain wrong for an adult to even say. You got called out for being rude on a discussion on people buying homes for their future families and now are acting like a child bc you were trolling around looking to pick a fight. Grow up.

Please calm down and reread. When did I get called out for being rude? I said that I didn't think the PP who said that babies don't need a lot of room was being snarky.

Also, thank god(s) I'm not whitty! Never heard of it, but it sounds bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HAHA TRy buying w/ a $180k budget.

Yup! "Slumming" here in Prince George's County.

Word!! I'm chillin like a villain in Hoodbridge

[Anonymous]

We had a $160K budget and ended up getting a place in South Arlington for $143K. The best part? GREAT ethnic food and NO DCUM bitches. Bi-winning!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are looking for a house now too! We live in my 1BD 1 BR condo and we arent going to try for kids until we move to a house. So we are in the process.

Remember, babies are small. They don't require a whole house to themselves.

No, but you will outgrow a one bedroom apartment very quickly once you have kids. No option to sleep separately - always cosleeping. Very little room for baby supplies and baby toys. And once baby is mobile, it will get even more complicated. If you are unable to locate a larger and more affordable home (whether larger apartment, TH, condo, or SFH) you'd be stuck there for another year everytime you renew your lease.

It's better to move before a baby is born then afterwards - a lot less stressful. The PP is wise to wait and move first.

[Anonymous]

This thread is where DC really shows how un-cityllike it really is. As soon as people in this town start having babies, they start looking for SFH's. In NYC, people live in 2 BR 1 BA apartments with kids all the time! And I don't mean with babies, I mean with older children, as well.

[Anonymous]

OK, I don't know what OP's actual budget is, but all the people whining about a $450-600K budget should just suck it up. You cannot get your dream house around here for that, but you can still come out looking pretty good - you may have to compromise on something - proximity to the city, size of house, how "good" the public schools are, but still, there are many options in that price range if you give up the idea that you can have it all.

[Anonymous]

PP here, before people start hurling stones about how I must have bought before the boom or have all this money - we live in Silver Spring in a nice house that we got for less than $600k in 2007. Sure, the house could be newer, bigger, etc., and the schools could be a bit better, but really, I have NO complaints. We're living great.