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What was your first house or apartment upon marriage.

I remember ours was $95 a month. It was two rooms and bath, tile floor. It had a small kitchen along the wall with a accordion door to pull across.

We actually were a little leery, thought the rent was a little high. Lived there about a year, got transferred to Wisconson and moved up to $125 a month. Hey, these were in nice new apartment building...

You have to remember, this was many moons ago.

It was a basement apartment with a bedroom with no door, a living room, dining room, bathroom and kitchen. Its been too many years for me to remember what we paid in rent. My apartment was at the bottom of a very large hill. First snowfall in Birmingham, the cars started sliding and ended up against my bedroom wall one after another. This was an on the edge neighborhood. I went to the side of the house to take out the trash and their was a bale (BIG) of marijuana. I dragged it across the street to a field and smashed it to bits, and it rained so hard that day. Later I realized how stupid I was. The field is probably to this day full of weed. My husband brought a mutt home that would bring me things and leave them on the steps for me (dead things). One day I noticed he was on the chair in the living room and shaking and growling toward the kitchen. Three huge rats were eating his dog food and he didn't do a thing. The rats left and never came back ( maybe the dog food killed them). My husband was away one night and someone tried to break in the back door. I told them I had a 12 gauge shot gun and was very accurate. They changed their mind about coming in. We moved soon after.

our first house upon marriage was a 2600sf rancher on 5 acres in Wickenburg AZ. 5 bedrooms, 3 baths; it was a beautiful place and our payment was only 800 a month. It had a wraparound deck and beautiful views of the desert and the mountains.

Trying to get out of our apt, $819 a month is not worth it

Hey, Angel, I am talking about 40 years ago..... wow, rent has gone up...

I'm still living in the house I bought when I was married the FIRST time, I had to buy the *ahem, clears throat* out to save it or it would have been sold. I've lived here now for 25 years in the same house, well, same property, we tore down the old house our selves and bought a new "modular" home....NOT a mobile home 3 years ago, it sits on 1 full acre and I have the BEST neighbors as you saw in the pictures........wouldn't trade this place for the WORLD.....WELL, maybe a house in Italy on the coastline

Sounds great, we have a beautiful home here too, but it is way to big for us and too much work. Hope to move to a condo on the ocean soon. Your pictures are great and the animals are beautiful.

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House, it was $550 a mth. including power, and water.
We had to move when I found out we were having twins. This is only our 2nd house together, and we have outgrown it too. I feel a move in the air, or major renovations.

Well, we know now that Georges first house was a teepee

Both involve my ex-husband. Yes I went from my dad's house into marriage. What was I thinking? LOL

Our first apartment was a 1 BR, 1 BA for $120 a month. Including heat and water. But that first winter (1975-76, brrrr in the Midwest that year) was a shock. The 2 family apt. building had old casement, single pane windows. I swear our living room didn't go above 55 on very cold nights!

We bought our first house in 1977, with a VHA loan, no down payment. I think it was in the low $200's per month. A very nice, 50+ yr old but small 2 BR, 1 BA bungalow. Hardwood flooring underneath carpeting, clawfoot bathtub, beautiful windows and woodwork, deep or tall baseboards, etc. Tons of windows. My houseplants numbered about 35, and I had 7 windows facing south. Now I own 3 houseplants....he he Anyway, we lived there about 7 years before splitting up.

I'm into watching decorating shows such as Home Time, This Old House, any HGTV show and reading redo magazines, etc. And house plan books. My dad was a carpenter and my oldest brother a draftsman, by trade (switched careers early on though). I grew up seeing blueprints spread on the kitchen table a lot. Hence, my interests.

Long story short, I recently discovered my little bungalow was actually a Sears home, an Arts & Craft blueprint/kit house. I wish I had known so I could have checked for evidence in the attic (numbered lumber). Here's a plan for it. We didn't have a second floor, only the first. Always wondered what it would have looked like had the second floor been added!
http://www.arts-crafts.com/archive/sears/page75.html

What a darling house. Yes, those were fun days too. Then the kids come and you have to get more space.

Or a new husband! LOL I went from that bungalow into my very first apt. all alone. It was scary at first but then I loved it. It was all ~mine~!! I decorated it the way I wanted to. The bathroom had blue porcelin tub, commode and wall sink. I made blue and white gingham check curtains for the shower, sink wrap and even rimmed a basket with fabric for my makeup, it was very girly. Yes this room even had a window. Ah, my creative days....I had time on my hands back then! Guests would say it was like walking into a cottage (second apt.).

I'd trade all of that for what I have now - a very happy marriage and I got to be a mom! But my little house and apartments (both) were very charming. There's something to be said about small spaces. They just feel cozy!

Mary

First apartment was in 1965, when I first got married. It had one bedroom, 1 bath, livingroom, dining area and galley style kitchen. It was in a beautiful apartment complex with a pool. Rent was $125 a month which was rather high for that time. I loved it!!!

Yes, back then, didn't we think we were paying high rent?

It really is amazing!!!

But, when we bought our first house in the 70's, we got a cute ranch for about $21,000.
Those were the good old days.

We bought our first home in 1969 and it was a 3 bedroom brick ranch with full basement and integral garage. It was 5 years old and cost $16,000. We paid a house payment of $100 a month.

Now you couldn't even build a garage for that.

It's amazing that my cable bill is almost as much as my house payment was!!!!!