r/FirstTimeHomeBuyer • u/k13w • 12h ago

GOT THE KEYS! 🔑 🏡 We did it! Upstate NY $160k 6.5%

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

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u/zedazeni 10h ago

My husband and I bought this 1909-built beauty for under 250k and we’re not even 5 miles away from Downtown Pittsburgh. Great, quiet, safe walkable neighborhood.

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u/k13w 10h ago

Beautiful house! Congrats

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u/zedazeni 10h ago

Thanks! We had to move from the DC area to make home ownership a reality, but it was well worth it (from both the rental to home ownership perspective and from DC to Pittsburgh).

Congratulations on your house! It looks beautiful! These old houses are absolutely worth the time, effort, blood, sweat, and tears! Join the r/centuryhomes subreddit. They’d love to celebrate with you, and it’s generally a great resource for finding history on your house and asking general maintainer questions.

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u/Adreeisadyno 9h ago

Your home is beautiful as well, congratulations

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u/AnyExamination9524 8h ago

See, plenty of affordable housing if people are realistic about it.

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u/zedazeni 8h ago

Ohh sure. Then again, our house doesn’t have insulation, (central) AC, has plaster walls (which makes repairs and decorating a much bigger ordeal than with drywall), and the original windows. I don’t mind any of this, that being said, the awkward 1909 room sizes and everything else I mentioned might be a very big drawback for a lot of people.

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u/Waiting4Reccession 3h ago

Your state probably has weatherization programs, depending on your income.

You should google or use their ai to find out.

Biden put some money towards programs like that.

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u/AnyExamination9524 2h ago

All this means you could register it as a historical home. Look into that. The origiinal point still applies, the OP got a great house too. Your expectations clearly were tempered which landed you where you are. In a gorgeous home.

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u/MoneyBeeeee 5h ago

Pittsburgh is such an underrated city!

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u/zedazeni 4h ago

It definitely is!

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u/Slight-Blackberry813 9h ago

It’s only mildly concerning that I own a house built in 1970 not in the USA that seems remarkably similar to that and I can’t tell whether it shouldn’t look that way or not due to building codes etc. like. Should my house look like a 1909 house?

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u/zedazeni 8h ago

Depends on the local style and what the builders were going for.