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

[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 ...

Not really, SS is still pretty cheap and many parts are not that great so the houses are around 4-500k at that size and the mortgage relects that.

[Anonymous]

Fort Hunt, 1200 Sq Feet, $2400 mortgage

[Anonymous]

potomac, 2400 sq ft, $3200 PITI

[Anonymous]

Spring Valley area DC, 4500 sq ft, no mortgage (but my mother lives with us it's her house until she croaks then it's our inheritance).

[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 ...

There is so much information that is not shared such as when the house was purchased and how much was put down. There is no need to hate this post.

[Anonymous]

Orange County, CA
1400 sqft
$1900 all in

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Spring Valley area DC, 4500 sq ft, no mortgage (but my mother lives with us it's her house until she croaks then it's our inheritance).

you're charming

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Spring Valley area DC, 4500 sq ft, no mortgage (but my mother lives with us it's her house until she croaks then it's our inheritance).

you're charming

he does not know that the mother has already left the house to her favorite pet-rescuing charity, will find out when the will is open..................

[Anonymous]

McLean
5000 sq ft
$5800 all in (taxes, etc)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bethesda 2,400 sq feet and $3,000 all inclusive.

Ok, my square footage includes the basement. Our house was purchased in 2011 but it wasn't a first purchase. We've been in the real estate market for some time -- some of it good and some of it bad. As a result we have a 350K 20 year mortgage and 50K home equity. Our house is probably worth about 800K/

[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?

It's not about house size. Husband wanted acreage. I wanted a neighborhood. The builder who owned the land dictated size of the home on those lots

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Yes to all. Only if builder owns the land.

[Anonymous]

West Springfield. 3000sf + finished basement. $3300 a month all inclusive

[Anonymous]

Falls Church (not Pimmit Hills!)
3000 sq ft
$2239 a month all inclusive (for 300K 30 yr mortgage)
I put about 500K down. 790K purchase price.
Purchased in 2012.

[Anonymous]

Pimmit Hills 5600 sqrft, $4320