FH is anti house!

FH is anti house!

Is anyone else's FH against buying a house right now? I have been looking casually for a house, and everytime I mention to him that I like one, or that I think we can afford one, he totally freaks out saying that financially we aren't ready and we are fine in our apt. and he wants to 'hold off on buying a house right now'!!! This is soo frustrating because we CAN afford the homes I am looking at, and although we are fine in our apt. I would like to move into something we OWN instead of throwing away $$ in rent. I feel like he is NEVER going to be ready -- no matter what I say to him.

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Right now we can't afford one but I am sure if we could he would be fine with it. I take care of the finances. He doesn't question me..lol.

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I am the one who is anti-house...FH sooooo does not want to 'waste' money on rent...but we really dont have too much to put down on a house right now and with the wedding coming up I feel like we can wait...plus I dont clean at all (I still live with the fam) so I dont think I will be able to go right into cleaning a whole house!!! Im sweating just thinking about it

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Me and FH are house hunting now. We have looked at about 20-25 houses so far. He really wants one as do I . So I have no problems. The only things is he is worried about if we can afford it. But We worked out the #'s and We can do it.

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I think it is too much to do a wedding and a house at the same time. My fh is a mortgage broker and he said in the next 2 years the house prices will come down a little more than they are now. So we will look right after we get back from the honeymoon. I think your fh is probably just overwhelmed w/ the wedding and trying to add a house to that is ALOT, why ot wait and enjoy both seperatly.

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we're not looking right now

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FH is totally ANTI HOUSE... we really dont have the money but im talking like with in the 1st year of marriage.. and he still says no.. my poor parents they'll have us forever

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Give him time!!

Men always take long to make major decisions!!!

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i was actually the 'anti house' one but now he understands

i know us and i know we wouldnt be able to buy a house and live frugally. I mean we are saving money for the wedding and all that BUT we still go out occasionally and go on mini vacations bc otherwise we would go nuts. If we bought a house now we would literally have to change every aspect of our lives. . . as in maybe not even having cable or a cell phone and maybe even giving up on car! So i didnt want to start out married life miserable.
We are lucky though bc we will be living rent free in my parents house for the first year or two so we can save money for a house but still be able to enjoy being newlyweds.

PS when i first saw this post I thought 'wow why would anyone be against the show House its a great show!'

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not right now..but hopefully within the next year or so

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No house for us. We're thinkin maybe a condo to start out in. I don't want to rent, and I don't want to buy a 'fixer upper', so we're going to wait until we can recover from the wedding.

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why don't you guys sit down and calculate mortgage payments and how much you would have to set aside to own a house. if you have enough for a down payment, closing costs, furnishing and miscellaneous stuff...then you should be fine. most of the headache comes from affording the down payment first of all.