My parents are selling my childhood home

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and it makes me sad.    We moved there in 1981 when I was two years old.  It's a nice house with so many good memories there.  This sounds really dumb, but I feel like the house is a part of me and I don't want someone else living there.  Not to mention that I love having my parents 10 minutes away and now they will be 2 hours from us.  I never thought I'd care about living close to my parents, but it's wonderful now that we have a kid.

My parents put it on the market on Monday and got a near asking price offer yesterday.  WTF.  They countered on closing costs, but I bet it will be under contract soon.  Houses in their area have been selling in 1-5 days.  I wish we could buy it, but that wouldn't really make sense for us to do.

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[spitforspat]

Aw. my parents rented out my childhood home. We would have to go clean it between renters. It was always so sad to see MY house treated so poorly. I get you.

Take some pics! Recreate a fun, old family photo if you can.

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Aw

My mom sold mine in her divorce. I still think about it.

It's a beautiful house.

[cc]

That sucks. The house I spent most of my childhood years in was torn down the year we had all of those hurricanes come through. The neighborhood was deemed a flood zone and quite a few houses were bulldozed. Now, there is just an empty lot.

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May 8, 2013 10:44:25 GMT -5 cc said:

That sucks. The house I spent most of my childhood years in was torn down the year we had all of those hurricanes come through. The neighborhood was deemed a flood zone and quite a few houses were bulldozed. Now, there is just an empty lot.

That is so sad!

[goaskalice]

What a beautiful home! Even though I've been pushing my parents to sell our childhood home, there are too many stairs for my mom and I worry, I will be a little sad when it finally does sell.

I would definitely be sad about the moving 2 hours away part!

[juliagoulia]

My parents their house on the market right now too and it is sad! That's a beautiful home

[fivechickens]

Its a beautiful house I can see why it will sell fast.

We sold my grandparents house after my grandma died. Its so weird/sad now when I drive by now. What do you mean I can't just walk in? It was my grandparents house for 70 years!!!!

[JamaicanPineapple]

That's a beautiful home!

I always wonder what I'll feel like if/when my parents decide to sell our childhood home.

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What a beautiful home. Can you take lots of pictures inside and out?

[bex1973]

Awww, this is sad. My parents finished building my childhood home 2 months before I was born, I lived there until college. My Dad died there so it was even more sad when my mom sold it. It made it better for me to know that the woman that bought it LOVED the house and kept saying how she never thought she would ever live someplace she loved so much. Took some of the sting out.

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May 8, 2013 10:53:08 GMT -5 kessieblue said:

Awwww... My parents recently sold my childhood home, too. They're retiring to central america, so they'll be a good 10 hour flight away!

Wow!  My parents remind me that two hours is no big deal.  My mom laughed at me yesterday because she says that I used to never call them, but as soon as they decide to move, I'm calling them all the time. Ha.  They are retiring to a mountain home they built a few years ago.  It's peaceful and beautiful, so it's a good thing for them. 

This is the view from their deck, so they are definitely moving on to better things. 

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[fluffaluff]

Aww..my parents sold my childhood home a couple years ago it was around the time Miranda Lambert's song "the house that built me" came out..I felt like it was written for me.

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I'm beginning to think my heart is made of stone.

[hisno1girl]

The new owners of my childhood home chopped down two maple trees, an oak tree and a blue spruce, and tore out the border of roses that were my mother's pride and joy.

I wanted to slap them!

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My first childhood home was super super tiny. So much so that after it was torn down you couldn't even imagine a house being on a lot that small.

My dad drove us by it once when we were in high school and was like, "well, that's embarrassing." Lol

[bubbles]

I kinda felt this way after my grandparents died and my mom had to sell their house. Even though we knew the people she sold to, they treated it poorly and it was sad to see. I had so many good memories of that place. I totally understand where you're coming from.

[snickers]

That looks like a beautiful home.
I am sorry they are selling it, I know I will be upset when, my parents sell their home too.

[AmeliaBedelia]

I totally get this. I'm dreading the day when my parents sell their house. It was the only house I ever lived in as a kid, and I love it.

[anlo]

Awww. It's a lovely house. Take lots of pictures.

[macmars45]

My parents sold my childhood home when I was 14/15 years old. The family that bought it totally destroyed it. It was sad to drive by it through my HS/college years. That family sold it to a nice older couple though and they've been slowly making it nice again. My mom went by once and the nice older couple gave her a tour.

My childhood home is a mile from the house my parents had built that we moved into on my 14th birthday. They still live there so I see my childhood house whenever I visit my parents.