Did you have your own house when you got married?

China
November 17, 2009 10:56am CST
Did you have your own house when you got married? or your spouse had one then? If you did,how you had it?bought it yourself or got it as a gift from your parents? If you didn't,how do you arrange your new family?and how long did it take to hold your own house after getting married? you see,housing for marriage is the hottest topic in our country... and I wish to know about the situation of people about it across the world.hope for your responses!
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@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
17 Nov 09
My husband and I got married On September 26th of this year. We didn't have much money whilst preparing the wedding, so we had help from his parents. We bought some things and they bought some things. In any case, we still live with them as we're not yet financially prepared. My husband has a job and I'll start my job sometime soon. We both mylot when we can and that helps but I doubt we could claim it as an income! In any case, we already have standards on what we want. We know we want a doublewide and we know that we want four bedrooms. We just have to wait and first buy ourselves a car and get used to insurance of the car and health insurance. After that we will get a loan for a doublewide. I don't know how long it will take, I'd like to have the house by next year but I don't know how long it will take before we're financially stable enough to get a loan. The doublewide size we want usually runs $80,000. By the way, we live in the USA. The doublewide we want will be new, and we already know where we're going to put it, his parents land. They are allowing us to put the doublewide on their property free of rent, of which we are very happy to hear!
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• China
18 Nov 09
hi,somecowgirl! thank you for your response. I think your situation is good.you and your husband have a nice place to live currently and have support from his parents.and most important of all,you've got a plan for your future house. I hope your dream come true soon! have a nice day!
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@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
2 Dec 09
Yes, I am very glad to have a roof over our heads, and to have a plan for what we want so we can kind of plan how to save and spend our money for this said dream house!
@SACHIN2708 (1634)
• India
17 Nov 09
Hi great question and you know this is my real problem that I dont have my own home and i was looking home from past many months but did not get it yet.You know now prizes of home are very high and it is very tough to buy home ,I am hardworker and i have own business and just to make more money for home I did job in night shift but then also my budget is too short and thats why now I am renting property and i decided that if I will not be able to buy home so I will not get married bcz home is mandatory after marriage
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• China
18 Nov 09
hi,sachin! thank you for yur response! yeah housing price is very high as well as in our country.It's too hard for a young to afford it by himself. anyway,I hope you can get enough money to buy your own house. have a nice day!
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@Sreekala (34312)
• India
4 Dec 09
Hi CathyLee, Both of us have our own ancestral house at native place and we are staying away from there in a rented house. In our culture if there is more than one male kid then after the marriage of the elder one, he may build his own house and shift to that house. The younger one may stay with parents even after the marriage. It is not necessary to have their own house at the time of marriage and many are staying the parental house and leaving the place after the marriage.
@spalladino (17891)
• United States
29 Nov 09
When I got married the first time my husband and I lived in a rented apartment. From there we rented a house and then eventually saved enough money for a down payment on our own house. Because we had little furniture when we got married both my husband's parents and mine gave us furniture as a wedding gift.
• China
1 Apr 10
no, too expensive, i havn't got married yet, i can't afford the house by myself when i got married, we have to rent a house if we lived in city, otherwise, we must go back to countryside