That is MY House !

Actually this has happened to me twice - not to the house I grew up in, but to a couple of others that I had lived in for quite some time.   The first one, I have to say, they did a really nice job.  Some of the changes they made were actually things we had talked about doing ourselves but just never got around to it.

The other one?  Oh, it still makes me want to cry.  Not only did the changes they made to the actual floorplan make me cringe...they also bulldozed every living thing my mother and I had so tenderly nurtured for many, many years...and replaced the living things with?  you guessed it - concrete.   Oh, horrors of horrors.

Sometimes it really is fun to go back and visit prior homes...other times, well, let's just say sometimes the past is best left there.

I haven't seen that happen yet, but I do check in every so often to see if they've placed my previous home on the market.  It was my first purchase, so I like to check in every now and then...

~Chanda (no 'r') :)

I had that happen a couple years ago, it was difficult to see the changes as of course they were not to my taste.  However we were so pleased with the family who purchased the home, they said when they were dating they would walk by the home and say..someday we want to live in that home.  Of course the time they were dating was the time we lived in the home.  A happy ending for everyone.

Thomas:  I have not had that exact thing happen but I can certainly understand your sadness.  I think homes have their own personalities.  One home reminded me so strongly of my grandparents' home that I had a difficult time showing it without becoming emotional. 

Hi Thomas ~ I will never ger over missing our house when it was for sale a couple of years ago.  One day my mother and I drove by and my mother commented that the people who they had sold it to had left it unchanged for the ~17 years or so they had owned it. About a month later we drove by and they were in the process of cutting down *all* of the mammoth trees in the yard.  We were shocked.

Turned out it had been on the market several months before and I completely missed it.  I was crushed and still am.  From the photos and video you could tell very little had changed and I would have given anything to have gone inside.

It was a classic colonial and the new owners have Mcmansionized it - added additions, put in replacement windows, expanded the garage and the driveway - it makes me ill.

When I was a kid I dreamed of buying all our family's houses - grandparents' etc. - and decorating them just as they had been - sort of a chain of Bolton museums. Still wish I could.

Liz