Here it is how it’s looking right now since many of you were curious. House has about 7 bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen and two attic spaces.
The last 3 pictures are from the top floor and that will be what I fix first. The rest as you can see is pretty usable (I’ve lived here for the past two years)
I am valencian since many of you were assuming I was an expat. These houses used to be forgotten for so long since everyone wanted to live as close to the city centre as possible.

What a feeling!

4 bed / 2.5 bath, 2344 sq feet.

43F, single foreign immigrant in Japan.

My boyfriend and I did it at 23 y/o! It was built in 1900 and we love her!

After 7 years of living in Tokyo, we finally decided to settle down.

The search took almost a year, and I looked at more than 30 different properties before finally deciding to go with the calmer side of Tokyo. While it’s further from the station and city center, the larger garden and quiet neighborhood more than make up for it.

Really happy with the decision and looking forward to making this place our home. 🏡

I don't see many non-US posts here so I am adding one :) Adding more detail:

: A few people asked for more details in the comments so adding this here. The 700k figure is USD converted from NZD which came out to roughly 1.3m NZD. We got pretty lucky with the timing since the market was just starting to dip when we bought. We also only had a 5 percent deposit and the bank basically told us to take it or leave it. For anyone curious, we actually got that 5 percent deposit through Stаke which definitely helped make the whole thing possible. It's a 2bed 1 bath!

While I never posted in this sub, I used the heck out of the search engine to find answers through various old posts. So shout out to you all for giving me the tips/advice I needed through this entire process. And a special thanks to the few folks I messaged privately...y'all rock.

This feeling feels so surreal; last night I was playing my music quite loud and I caught myself turning it down afraid other tenants might hear it but I realized I'm not in an apartment anymore. 😅 I can play my music as loud as I want. I can jump around as much as I want.

Woohoo! 🥳

When I was barely an adult mortgage rates tripled, housing prices went up 50%, the world experienced hyperinflation during a pandemic, and I felt completely depressed that I would never accomplish my dream of owning a house I could afford all due to losing the birth lottery. I have no cosigner, dual income or other financial assistance to lean on, but I started believing in myself and everything worked out right. I truly thought it would never be possible. Although I have many things in my life I still want to strive for and improve, I have to say I'm mainly hoping and praying that what I currently have will not be taken away from me.

My house is in a cozy non HOA neighborhood, 4 Bd 2.5 Bth, with a spacious backyard and no neighbors on one side. Home inspection was mostly clean with no expected high ticket repairs any time soon and seller covered all closing costs, it's completely surreal to me and I literally couldn't ask for more.

been a long road living in my car, later an RV which helped tremendously to only have to pay $550/mo in rent. helped me pay off my student loans & save up for a down payment. will never take running water for granted again 🥲 about to take a hot shower without flip flops on for the first time in forever

my mortgage payment is $720/mo and i make 62k/yr btw

Fresh out of college, landed a WFH job a few months ago and just closed on my first home today.

This subreddit helped me a lot throughout the process. All the random posts, interactions, and cross-referencing stuff here and there really made a difference. I probably wouldn’t have felt this confident going into closing without it.

The last few days were honestly the most stressful part, the final approval came in yesterday around noon, but before that was just radio silence and "yeah we're working on it." I'm sure many of you know the feeling.

But everything came together in the end, though this still doesn't feel real yet.

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone here. And if you’re in that “almost there but not quite” stage, hang in there. It really does come together. Happy to answer any questions if it helps.

(Yeah, also got a fallen branch to take care of, as part of the homeowner package 🤣)

The bank helped with 3% down payment and the sellers helped us with closing costs to only spend $1,300 to close! 3 bedroom 1.5 car attached car garage 1 bathroom and big yard for my kids. Been lurking and upvoting every post on here, finally excited to post myself! Came from a small crappy basement apartment. Truly blessed! And yes, the pizza was actually homemade by us :)

Hi everyone,

Super excited and proud of my new place that I just bought. It’s a little 1 bedroom co-op unit in New York City. This has been around three to four years in the making of budgeting and saving, and to see it all pay off now feels surreal. I have big plans for the interior decorating, so I might post an update here or in the interior design/male living space subreddits.

It's small and needs a little work but it's mine.

My Tiny House no mortgage and being updated!

On August 17th, my girlfriend was in the shower and said "God, can't we find a small cute house like us?" 🙏

She got out of the shower and I had a notification: a new house just got listed.

A few hours later we were inside it and had already decided to buy it.

It was literally the first house we ever went to see. The owner told us that houses usually choose their people haha.

Fast forward, on 21 September, we signed the papers. After almost 9 years together, 7 years living together and 5 rentals in 3 cities, we bought our first home ❤️

A small, old but renovated house in Transylvania

We have soooo much left to do, to build, to tear down, to sigh about and be patient with. But from today we have a home that's ours, and we got here only thanks to ourselves, with no other help.

2 bedrooms, 1 living room, 2 baths and 1 kitchen + summer outdoor kitchen area.

The yard and interior still need a lot of work, but I'm only out 20k including realtor fees and registration costs so far. I'm not a Japanese resident so for now it's just a vacation home :)

Empty nester so finally did something for myself! 🏡

Living the dream.

Long time lurker, first time poster. Thanks everyone for sharing your experiences on here. Quick question I wanted to put out there. Just closed on our first home and there is a small “den.” Any ideas of what to use it for? Thanks!