If so how was it??

Did the house seem molested like lots was done to it you wouldnt have done???


A house we used to live in IN THE 80s now looks like crap.. The latest plastic windows,siding,etc..... IF I WAS ABLE TO AND I MOVED BACK IN,I WOULD TRY TO MAKE IT AS MUCH AS I COULD LIKE IT DID IN 1980 when we lived there before...... THE WORLD DIED IN THE 80s AND BECAME TOTAL CRAP....

No, but the house we grew up in that my parents sold in the late 90's, my oldest sister just a couple of years ago went to a party there, she went to school with the lady that bought it. Amazingly the living room, main hallway, and staircase carpet was the same carpet that my parents had put in back in the 80s, They also had the same counter top in the main bathroom. She took and shared pics with us so it was pretty neat seeing it.

I've driven by the house a few times over the years, the last time was when my daughter was about 12, we went on a road trip so she could see where I grew up and the schools I went to. They have had new garage doors put in and a new front door, which look nice.

That must be nice to see!! (Alot of the same stuff inside :))

I went by my old house in Massachusetts recently. Nothing really has changed, except for a little bit of the outside.

That must be nice to see!! (Alot of the same stuff inside :))

Yes.:) She showed us pics that she took.

Have ya ever moved back into a house you sold years ago??


I know someone that did that. He got 1 to 3 years.

I became friends with a lady about 10 years ago who lived in the same apartment building that I lived in when I first came to LA in the mid 80's ! ;) Not the exact same apartment but on the same floor and only two doors down! It was a trip at first when I would visit her!!!:eek: Brought back good old memories of me being young and wide eyed, :eek: being newly married and living in a whole new state !!:)

I became friends with a lady about 10 years ago who lived in the same apartment building that I lived in when I first came to LA in the mid 80's ! ;) Not the exact same apartment but on the same floor and only two doors down! It was a trip at first when I would visit her!!!:eek: Brought back good old memories of me being young and wide eyed, :eek: being newly married and living in a whole new state !!:)

Where did you used to live?

Where did you used to live?

I was born and raised in Pennsylvania and moved over to New Jersey where my first Husband was from before we moved out here to California! :)

No, but I always wanted to go back to my Dad's old house and see if our height cart is still there.

I know someone that did that. He got 1 to 3 years.

Ah Man!!

No, but we went into my first home years ago. Basically, my parents got to be friends with the couple that bought our first home. We went in there a few times after they bought it and (true story) were growing marijuana in the bedroom that was a my playroom. The friendship didn't last long if I recall, we got together with them a few times, they came to our new house a few times and vice versa.

I wouldn't buy either of my childhood homes because they are now in bad neighborhoods with gang members.

I was born and raised in Pennsylvania and moved over to New Jersey where my first Husband was from before we moved out here to California! :)

I have an older adult lady friend who lived in New York growing up, and now she lives in the same town and state as me which is New Hampshire.

And I know somebody who is from Pennsylvania.

Last month, my dad drove by the house he grew-up in in Garfield Heights. The house which was yellow now has grey vinyl siding. I didn't like it at first, but as I thought about it...that color seems to work since it is a Victorian color...but it looked like the owners weren't home. Maybe their cars are in the garage or the family went to dinner...

But I don't want to live in Garfield Heights now due to it's deterioration once City View Center opened...but with K-Mart gone, maybe they can expand the street that's on City View Center. Also...it didn't help that there was a stand-off two doors down where my Papa (That's who we called grandpa on my father's side) once lived.

But... I do want to use Papa's House as my dream house once I get a chance to build where my Papa had property.

I went by my old house in Massachusetts recently. Nothing really has changed, except for a little bit of the outside.Wow its very nice they havent ruined the house!

Alot of people have been so dumbed down they think crap is good now so they take something nice and make it ugly. (In thier brainwashed minds they think its nice)


Sad......

The house I grew up in during the 60s and 70s, still belonged to my mother when she passed in 2002.
I put it on the market for a little under a year, and never got what I considered a reasonable offer.

My career path shifted, so I ended up moving back from the west coast, and lived in it for 5 years, fixing it up.

It was an odd experience, because so many trivial little day to day things that would occur, would bring back decades old memories. Some good, and some sad. Most of the neighbors I had grown up around (who generally considered me to be a hellian) still lived there. Most were by then elderly, and I took the opportunity to make peace, often getting up early on winter days and shoveling their sidewalks along with my own. It payed off, I became part of the clique.
I sold the house like 6 months before the mortgage bubble burst.......so overall...I'd say I played it perfectly.

Now I see bare paths worn through the yard that I had meticulously reseeded, the shrubbery I had coiffed to perfection is neglected and overgrown, and the perennial flowerbeds I put in are in ruins, parking spaces for tricycles and bikes.

So, while I am sure the old guard in the neighborhood had thought "there goes the neighborhood" when I first moved back in, they got a true dose of that after I moved back out.

I shudder to think what the inside looks like.

Here is a picture from the very back of my old backyard, always had lots of company

https://i.imgur.com/il7ePpE.jpg

Im so sorry for your loss buddy :(

I remember on our 10th anniversary, my husband and I went back to our first apt. Like Bonnie said, it brought back many good memories. At that time we were both in college, studying hard and working hard. Life was full of question marks and endless possibilities!
The apartment looked the same, it was clean, except I didn't remember it being that small. A college kid lived there and he graciously let us come in. The neighborhood looked a little shabbier. But at one time that little apartment was our whole world.

Never in my full entire life because From 1986(My Birth Year) until 1999, I regularly live in 3+ Houses in City of St Louis. For 20 out of 22 years, I have been living in St Louis North County because From 2011 to 2013 I live in St Charles County.

LOL!

My husband and I are actually living in the house where I grew up. I definitely appreciate my neighborhood now more than I did as a kid.

We did a full house renovation thirteen years ago and added on/reconfigured every room but the living room and one bedroom. Customizing it for our needs has been a long, but necessary, journey. The house is more livable for us, and we probably increased it's value by 25%+.

It is weird, however, to run into elderly neighbors who remember you from your childhood. "Well, if it isn't little Shotzette..." "If it isn't the old bat who gave us raisins for Halloween back in 1973...":lol:

Im glad your still in your house!!

I was just wondering...I would love going back to my first house when I was 7 and looking thru the furnace ducks in my room and see if anything is still there I may have dropped in there OR go into the cubby hole and see if anything is there in the ceiling like a casette tape or something.........