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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Take this one, for example. Described as a starter home in the listing: https://www.redfin.com/MD/Silver-Spring/632-Mississippi-Ave-20910/home/10953314 Maybe the listing agent wants to appeal to buyers who'd prefer some larger with more than one bathroom, but calling it a "starter" at $575,000 is insulting. I hate the idea that, even if it's a financial reach to spend that much, we should see at as a compromise relative to a house that costs even more.[/quote] I don't get it. What's so bad about calling it a starter home? It's small and for the price, something that a younger couple can both afford and make into a home for a few years until they have kids that are older than 10. The layout is actually pretty good considering the sq ft and they have an entire unfinished basement just waiting to be finished. Seems like a perfectly reasonable starter home to me. It's not a forever home imo. [/quote] It's insulting because it implies that no one would live in it for the long term. You DO understand that one person's "starter home" is another person's "forever home," right? To say it is a "starter" is to imply it isn't good enough (and by extension the people who buy it aren't good enough) as it is. But it is a house, a home, that people may live in for a little while or for the rest of their lives. Call it a small house, a cozy house, a two bedroom house. I live in a house other people call "a starter house" - two bed, two bath, 1300 sq ft. I am 46, married, with a kid. We will live in this house until we downsize when the kid grows up. Do you call my house a starter house? Why? It wasn't my first house, so not my starter, and I never moved on from it. Its insulting to call any house a starter house. Its just a house.[/quote] Yes, your house is what I'd call a starter home. We want 3-4 kids and space to grow into. It's a great home for 10 years but after that, babies become kids who become teenagers. [b]That house isn't going to work for someone with 3 teenagers. [/b] People have different uses for homes. You just said it yourself, you have one kid who's small, so the house is a good size for you and your family, that's great. To others who want more kids, it's not enough space at all to grow into. This isn't "insulting". What's insulting is you projecting onto others what should and shouldn't be the ideal long-term house just because you didn't buy a bigger house. [/quote] Sure it will. For a normal reasonable person who doesn’t insist that every kid have their own bedroom and individual space to hang out. I live in a house that size and the previous owners raised SIX kids there. And not only an unfinished basement, but 1/2 basement and 1/2 crawl space. Saying things like “that won’t work” just makes me laugh. It sure will. But just not for someone with your elite space wants and needs. [/quote] LOL I'm far from elite. I grew up in a house smaller than that. I can live in that house forever, myself, as-is forever if I didn't want kids. Just saying, why knock down other's phrases of "first starter home" because you're "insulted"? :roll: All I'm saying is, for a young couple making around 90K each and saved a good down payment, yes, that house is affordable and a good home for a first time homebuyer... I mean....you realize what a "Starter home" even means, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starter_home You're the only one sad because people may or may not want to live in a house that size forever, to each their own. I like the house. It could be a forever home, or it could be a starter home for a younger couple. To each their own, just find it funny that it insults you for some reason because you seem insecure by the term.... [/quote]
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