https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 27 May 2026 07:35:54 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-was-your-first-home-a-starter-home-or-forever-home/page/2#post-534734 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:48:03 +0000 LazyLightning 534734@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'd say neither. We could continue living in it but we probably won't. It's a house we bought for just us before we were married but has enough space for us + 1. We'd likely add on a bit if we stayed long term (mainly it only has 1 full bath). We will probably move to a different city/state within the next couple of years, and knew that before we bought our house. So definitely never planned it for forever. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-was-your-first-home-a-starter-home-or-forever-home/page/2#post-534663 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:35:51 +0000 PearlBee 534663@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't have a house yet, but when we get one, it'll be a starter home. We can't afford our forever home yet, but I don't want to have to rent till we get there! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-was-your-first-home-a-starter-home-or-forever-home/page/2#post-530519 Sun, 27 Jan 2013 21:24:49 +0000 mlm2934 530519@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ours is an in-between... I see it as a 5-10 year home (we've been here about 2.5 yrs). Next house we want to either have it built and custom, or move to a new city and have new adventure as condo in urban area. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-was-your-first-home-a-starter-home-or-forever-home/page/2#post-523417 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:24:50 +0000 Mrs. Train 523417@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Starter. After adding four kids to the mix we moved into a bigger house! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-was-your-first-home-a-starter-home-or-forever-home/page/2#post-523382 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:11:46 +0000 luckypenny 523382@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PrincessBaby: I know exactly where that is! I run the bridge everytime I go home! Omgosh that's so exciting and such a great location. You're going to LOVE it! Our lease is up may 2014 so it would probably be around then. DH wanted to be at his job for a couple more years anyway so it would work out great. Ughh just thinking about your move makes me so jealous/excited. Although I'm scared if I move there ill gain 100lbs! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-was-your-first-home-a-starter-home-or-forever-home/page/2#post-523058 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:57:38 +0000 msmay 523058@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're fairly young and we didn't want to break the bank trying to find a forever home, so ours is a starter! It's a 3-bedroom townhouse, which will do nicely for the next 5-7ish years. After that we'll probably look for a 4 bedroom with a nice yard. We're already in a good school district, so we may try to stay in the same area. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-was-your-first-home-a-starter-home-or-forever-home/page/2#post-521671 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:59:26 +0000 ladyfingers 521671@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Starter. It's very comfortable for us and one LO, and even two young LOs, possible. We do want to do some work to it, like adding a deck, so we intend on staying here a while. But it won't accommodate a growing (as in, LOs growing older) family for very long. Even if we only have one child, I can see it being cramped with two adults and a teenager. I think it will work well for us for 5-10 years depending on our needs, but it's not a forever home. It's what we could afford at the time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-was-your-first-home-a-starter-home-or-forever-home/page/2#post-521636 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:51:58 +0000 Springtime 521636@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Definitely a starter home, it is much too small to be a forever home. </p> <p>We will probably look to sell and buy a bigger house in the next few years. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-was-your-first-home-a-starter-home-or-forever-home#post-521624 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:48:51 +0000 PrincessBaby 521624@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@luckypenny: We're building in Mount Pleasant (we really wanted to build this time and there's just not any new construction in Charleston proper) right next to the big bridge that connects Mt Pleasant to downtown Charleston/King st....So we're only about 7-8 mins from Charleston downtown and about 10 minutes away from the beach in the other direction...Welove Charleston! My DH was stationed there previously when he was in the CG and he told me on our first date that he would raise his family there. We've spent the last couple of years getting things together in preparation for a move to Charleston but we didn't really get serious about it until our Babymoon there. We rented a car and went house shopping in tons of different areas, and we totally happened upon this amazing new neighborhood that is in just a phenomenal location as far as proximity to the beach and downtown. It's supposed to be completed in July and we're actually going there in a couple of weeks to finalize all of our cosmetic choices:). When are you guys thinking of moving? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-was-your-first-home-a-starter-home-or-forever-home#post-521531 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:25:34 +0000 BSB 521531@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When we buy our first home, it will probably be turnkey so move in ready. So our house will most likely be a starter home. Plus, we don't know if we will be living in our forever city. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-was-your-first-home-a-starter-home-or-forever-home#post-521488 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:12:40 +0000 autumnlove 521488@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@autumn865: We want 3 kids but then we won't have a office/guestroom! I guess the kids can always share a room! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-was-your-first-home-a-starter-home-or-forever-home#post-521359 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:38:31 +0000 luckypenny 521359@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're still renting. If we buy out here it will definitely have to be a starter home because housing is soooo expensive here. </p> <p>@PrincessBaby: I LOVE charleston! My parents live there and after our visit over Xmas, DH &amp; I are seriously considering it. Would you live in town or mount pleasant area? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-was-your-first-home-a-starter-home-or-forever-home#post-521340 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:32:47 +0000 Rescuemom10 521340@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It could be our forever home. We would like it to be but depends on a few things.<br /> DH has 7 more years until he retires from the Military. So it depends on where we may go. Fortuantly his job is mainly where we are not. Thats why we felt comfortable buying a home here.<br /> We are not sure if we will stay here once he retires from the Navy or if we may move. I like it where we are and with little ones, we may stay until they are at least done with school. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-was-your-first-home-a-starter-home-or-forever-home#post-521275 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:17:00 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 521275@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's a nice starter. We built new, but it isn't too big. We could live here forever though, unless we have a lot of kids.. then we will really run out of room.</p> <p>I'd say we will build a forever home in a few years. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-was-your-first-home-a-starter-home-or-forever-home#post-521265 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:14:06 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 521265@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our house is DH's third, my first. We bought a forecer home, but will likely end up moving for our careers. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-was-your-first-home-a-starter-home-or-forever-home#post-521229 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:07:40 +0000 Weagle 521229@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Neither really. It's too big to be a starter, and we could stay forever. I doubt we will though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-was-your-first-home-a-starter-home-or-forever-home#post-521116 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:40:41 +0000 cascademom 521116@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're in a starter home, a two bedroom condo. We'll probably move before LO #2 comes around into a proper house probably in the suburbs. I would love to stay in our neighborhood but houses are so expensive, it's not viable. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-was-your-first-home-a-starter-home-or-forever-home#post-521100 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:37:46 +0000 Chillybear 521100@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>when we bought the house 3 years ago, we were engaged and our plan was to stay in the house until we were ready for kid number 2, but if we had to stay longer we would be comfortable doing so. We recently added on living space and a powder room and we're planning on finishing the basement. There's a few other project we would do if this was our forever home but while i like the location in town and the school district, its on a really busy street and that would probably be our biggest motivation to move. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-was-your-first-home-a-starter-home-or-forever-home#post-521096 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:36:50 +0000 chopsuey 521096@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Starter home. We're gonna build our forever home this year (hopefully)! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-was-your-first-home-a-starter-home-or-forever-home#post-521091 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:36:00 +0000 MrsTiz 521091@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're in a starter home, I guess. We love it here, but have every intention of moving. Once we get this house fully finished &amp; some debts paid off, we'll sell it and flip another house.</p> <p>If that isn't in the cards, we will absolutely move before we have kids in middle school. For bedroom size reasons along with a crappy school zone. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-was-your-first-home-a-starter-home-or-forever-home#post-521078 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:33:09 +0000 T-Mom 521078@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our first was a starter home, and now we're in what we consider our "transition" home, and perhaps our next one will be our "forever" home, but not sure since we don't really buy houses with a "forever" mentality. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-was-your-first-home-a-starter-home-or-forever-home#post-521073 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:32:14 +0000 PurplePumps 521073@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We looked for homes with the intention of it being our forever home. It's a 4 bed, 2.5 bath, 3k sf single family. Unless we plan on leaving the state, that's where we'll e staying put. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-was-your-first-home-a-starter-home-or-forever-home#post-520999 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:12:24 +0000 Modern Daisy 520999@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Considering we bought a 2 bed/ 1 bath 800 sq ft apartment, it is definitely our starter home :)</p> <p>Most people I know (outside of NYC) couldn't even imagine 'starting' in such a small space! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-was-your-first-home-a-starter-home-or-forever-home#post-520990 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:10:06 +0000 hellobeeboston 520990@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are in a starter home - hoping to buy a forever home in the next few years! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-was-your-first-home-a-starter-home-or-forever-home#post-520986 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:08:28 +0000 Minnie_Girl 520986@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Neither! The house is too big to be a starter and we could stay forever if we wanted, but we plan on moving/building down the road. We purposefully bought big so we'd have room to grow and time for the house value to increase in a significant way. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-was-your-first-home-a-starter-home-or-forever-home#post-520879 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:38:00 +0000 Pepper 520879@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our first home was definitely a starter home... 2 bedroom townhouse. We are now in what i hope will be our forever home. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-was-your-first-home-a-starter-home-or-forever-home#post-520872 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:35:27 +0000 littlek 520872@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My first home was a condo I bought on my own, so definitely starter home. The second home I purchased was a townhouse (again just me) and that is an investment property. DH and I recently bought our forever home. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-was-your-first-home-a-starter-home-or-forever-home#post-520869 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:34:37 +0000 autumn865 520869@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@autumnlove: this would be the only reason we would want to go bigger- if we have more then two kids. Two bedrooms are very large but the third is a perfect nursery/ office/ playroom size. It could be a third bedroom for a third child but that kid definitely would be getting the short end of the stick! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-was-your-first-home-a-starter-home-or-forever-home#post-520863 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:33:34 +0000 yoursilverlining 520863@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Starter home; but we knew that going in. When we bought it, we were not even married yet and were very, very undecided on whether or not we would have any children at all – so we bought a place that was a great size for the 2 of us and in a fun neighborhood.</p> <p>This time around, we looked in neighborhoods based on the schools, and looked for places with plenty of room for us and LO. We also wanted a yard so we can get a dog someday. So, now we have our forever home. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/spinoff-was-your-first-home-a-starter-home-or-forever-home#post-520853 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:31:18 +0000 Bao 520853@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The house we are working on getting (what a process!), could be a forever home. It has 4 bedrooms (6 if you count the unfinished basement ones), lots of square feet and 1.5 baths. Plus it's on .5 an acre so lots of room to play! It needs a lot of updating though. We could make it work forever if we needed to, but we will see where life takes us! </p>