Where do you live, how big is your house and how much is your mortgage?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm still trying to follow the logic of "I need a big house to have a dry basement". You couldn't do a smaller house because it wouldn't fit into the neighborhood? Because all of the other new homes in GF are BFHs?

Have you been to great falls? 8000 SQRFT is probably a mid sized home

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:St. Louis, Missouri. House in the burbs in a great school district.

2200 square feet - mortgage is $650 per month. With insurance and taxes, we pay $910 per month.

could you post a pic of your house? i just want to see what we miss out on living in a city with such a high COL

[Anonymous]

Bethesda, $3800/month all in (15 year mortgage). No idea on sqft - it's a 4 BR, 3.5 Ba 3 level colonial.

[Anonymous]

Eastern market RH, 900 sf, $0 mortgage

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm still trying to follow the logic of "I need a big house to have a dry basement". You couldn't do a smaller house because it wouldn't fit into the neighborhood? Because all of the other new homes in GF are BFHs?

Maybe: Want GF for commute and want some land. Need new house for new basement w/ best waterproofing technology(??). Builders only build big houses on big land in GF?

[Anonymous]

2200 SF, CCMD, $3300/mo.

What's a BFH? Big fucking house?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eastern market RH, 900 sf, $0 mortgage

squatter? I kid I kid

[Anonymous]

Chesapeake VA - 2900 sq ft, $1875 all inclusive. Bought in 2011.

[Anonymous]

Ft. Washington
2600 sq ft above ground and 1100 sq ft basement
0% down in 2003
$1940 PITI
mortgage included $40k of debt rolled in during refi

[Anonymous]

Downtown DC - 3100 sq ft including finished basement. 2000 month. Gut reno of 100+ yr old rowhouse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SF, CA, 2600 sq. ft., no mortgage.

Show off!

Can I have a job?

LOL! Got in at the perfect time real estate-wise and job-wise and death-in-the-family-wise. Bitter sweet to take someone else's beloved home because they're upside down and have to move out of state to Bumf*ck for a lower COL and have your favorite relative die. When we moved in DH surprised me - he'd taken a pic of me as a little girl dressed up, blown it up, and had it framed with a pic of my grandmother at the same age, also dressed up, and put it up on the first wall you see when you walk in the front door.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eastern market RH, 900 sf, $0 mortgage

squatter? I kid I kid

Bought in 1996. Paid it off last year.

[Anonymous]

I hate this post. I thought we had pretty good housing costs, but there are a lot of people in nice houses in nice neighborhoods with some low mortgages!! Says the Silver Spring, 1600 sq ft owner with a mortgage of $2470 (all in). Maybe when I grow up, I can be some of the pp's ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate this post. I thought we had pretty good housing costs, but there are a lot of people in nice houses in nice neighborhoods with some low mortgages!! Says the Silver Spring, 1600 sq ft owner with a mortgage of $2470 (all in). Maybe when I grow up, I can be some of the pp's ...

A lot of these posters bought in the '90s, though.

[Anonymous]

CCDC, about 2300 square feet including basement. $3950 all in, bought in 2009.