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Hmm....So many have wondered, why we call it a house sometimes and a home at other times. I consult, buy and sell for my clients in DC, MD and VA, and assist with referrals for my clients to agents anywhere in the US or the world. And the question seems to be the same everywhere: When is it called a HOUSE - When is it called a HOME???? Here is where I, personally (as a "thinking" Realtor and a person with a BS from a university program housed in the College of Human Environment and Design), think the distinction lies: A house is an object, such as an item of merchandise; a home means that same roof over our heads, but with the embellishments that make it a very singuarly personal domain for ourselves. While we as homeowners - buyers and sellers - and Realtors work to buy or sell a product on the market, we more often call it a home and sometimes a house. I believe this is because we always know - upfront or subsciously - that this same brick and mortar structure that is being marketed as a product is truly the most important part of someone's built environment - and so is certainly more of a home than a house. We have selected these four walls as the main space or source of our everyday living - and it thereby will nurture our existance while we are within its walls. And we carry that with us after we have walked thru the front door into the rest of what is our natural and built world. A house is important to us; a home is VERY important to us! So, to sum it up: The essential difference to me, as a Realtor, is that both houses and homes are involved as part of the home buying and selling formula. And though we think of it as A HOUSE OR A HOME at any time in the process - - IT IS A HOME to the person who is living within its walls or will sometime soon! What is a HOUSE - What is a HOME? Your thoughts?
12 Comments on When is it called a HOUSE - When is it called a HOME???? Hint: It's the same IN DC, MD, VA, or anywhere in the world
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Ken Courtade, Yes I Ken!, ABR, GRI, CRS
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It comes from the slang of where one grew up at...is it a soda? or a pop? or a fountain drink? To me a home is where you reside, a house is for an investor that realizes the house is an investment to live in, not a part of the family like the spouce and children and dog. I knew someone that was going into foreclosure and said they would burn their home down before they let the bank take it from them...pretty stupid...