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[quote=Anonymous]I bought my first home a year and a half ago and am absolutely in love with it. I literally smile and have a wave of pride and happiness rush over me every single time I pull up to the house and see it in all its glory. I’m so in love with the house that I make career decisions and pinch here and there to pay off as much as I can as quickly as I can so I never have to be forced to sell if the unknown happens, eg, me or dh get fired or need to take a pay cut.  I don’t know that it will be my forever home, but my kids are toddlers and I have every intent to raise them in the house at least through high school.

My house certainly isn’t the biggest, bestest or nicest and it definitely has its money pit issues (it was built in 1940) and weaknesses (kitchen is small and in desperate need of a huge Reno). But I love it. It’s part of my family. I was terrified of getting buyer’s remorse when I bought and nearly skipped out on the home THREE times out of fear of that. I actually ended up backing out post offer and acceptance but within the inspection period and said I wouldn’t take it based on the inspection. There was nothing wrong or surprising but I was nitpicking everything for fear of such a big commitment and buyers remorse. My realtor talked me into throwing a lowball counteroffer to stay in the game instead of just backing out. He’s a friend and deep down knew I just had cold feet. So I countered $30k less plus all buyer fees. They ended up biting because unbeknownst to me, they had a family emergency that made the sale time sensitive. So alas, I was stuck again and had to go through with the purchase. So so happy I did. It may sound silly but I think this is my “soul house”- the universe literally came together in over a dozen different and unexpected  ways to result in me buying it. I wasn’t even looking to buy. I happened to drive by it one day and was completely drawn to it so made a random decision to go see it. I loved it and really wanted it but convinced myself the timing wasn’t right to buy. I wasn’t even looking! Then I randomly ran into my realtor friend whom I hadn’t seen in five years at a random bar and mentioned in passing that I “saw this house.” He tried to talk me into going with him to see it again but I said no because the timing wasn’t right to buy. The next day, he took it upon himself to look up the house for me and saw that the price dropped that day so he tried convincing me again. This time I agreed. Saw it again, fell more in love. Still was hesitant then got a call that same day about an exclusive offer for a way below market interest rate with no PMI for under 20% only for people at my company.  And similar things kept happening from then until closing that perfectly put the pieces together to make it happen.

In sum, my feeling is that if you bought your home more as a “best of the ones I saw and we can make this work” thing, it’s probably much more likely that you’ll have remorse. But based on my admittedly limited experience, I think it’s far more likely that you won’t have any remorse  if you bought a home you were intensely passionate about and thoroughly considered every plus and negative prior to purchasing and were still thoroughly passionate about.  [/quote]

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