Here I am 1 month into my new home, and I haven't really visited much since closing. Seems I've been way too busy to be on the net! For everyone who wonders "how much will I need to close", the money doesn't stop there by any means LOL. I've spent close to 20k since moving in between appliances, furniture, finishing 800 sq/ft in the basement (saved a ton there and did all the work myself) as well as upped the square footage to 2100sq/ft, yard tools, and my latest purchase a John Deere X350 lawn tractor today that ran me a little over 3k. My savings account is definitely dwindling down and I still need to put up a privacy fence and do a ton of landscaping as the home I bought was a foreclosure and sat empty for close to a year with no yard work. It is a very nice home though and was built in 2011, luckily we have had no issues with the home itself aside from having to replace shower heads and a few other small things. Home ownership is a blast so far, and I owe it very much to the community. Not only the mortgage loan section, but also to the rebuilding section where I started my journey in 2013. If anyone has any questions feel free to ask, and good luck on all of your journeys 
Congratulations! My husband and I were talking about this the other day and estimated we would probably need close to 20k in spending money after closing. I started my rebuilding journey the middle of last year and hope to be a homeowner by the middle of next year
CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 20K OMGGGGGGGGG LOL
@cartwrna wrote:
Here I am 1 month into my new home, and I haven't really visited much since closing. Seems I've been way too busy to be on the net! For everyone who wonders "how much will I need to close", the money doesn't stop there by any means LOL. I've spent close to 20k since moving in between appliances, furniture, finishing 800 sq/ft in the basement (saved a ton there and did all the work myself) as well as upped the square footage to 2100sq/ft, yard tools, and my latest purchase a John Deere X350 lawn tractor today that ran me a little over 3k. My savings account is definitely dwindling down and I still need to put up a privacy fence and do a ton of landscaping as the home I bought was a foreclosure and sat empty for close to a year with no yard work. It is a very nice home though and was built in 2011, luckily we have had no issues with the home itself aside from having to replace shower heads and a few other small things. Home ownership is a blast so far, and I owe it very much to the community. Not only the mortgage loan section, but also to the rebuilding section where I started my journey in 2013. If anyone has any questions feel free to ask, and good luck on all of your journeys
@cartwrna wrote:
Here I am 1 month into my new home, and I haven't really visited much since closing. Seems I've been way too busy to be on the net! For everyone who wonders "how much will I need to close", the money doesn't stop there by any means LOL. I've spent close to 20k since moving in between appliances, furniture, finishing 800 sq/ft in the basement (saved a ton there and did all the work myself) as well as upped the square footage to 2100sq/ft, yard tools, and my latest purchase a John Deere X350 lawn tractor today that ran me a little over 3k. My savings account is definitely dwindling down and I still need to put up a privacy fence and do a ton of landscaping as the home I bought was a foreclosure and sat empty for close to a year with no yard work. It is a very nice home though and was built in 2011, luckily we have had no issues with the home itself aside from having to replace shower heads and a few other small things. Home ownership is a blast so far, and I owe it very much to the community. Not only the mortgage loan section, but also to the rebuilding section where I started my journey in 2013. If anyone has any questions feel free to ask, and good luck on all of your journeys
I feel ya! It is a blast but it is very expensive and the costs don't stop at closing. We have already had to replace a window and a hot water heater and we have only been in our place for a little over a month! LOL Not to mention all of the furniture, appliances, paint, decorative items, etc.
We also just got our first PG&E bill for the new place... Ummm ouch. Going from a 1,000 Sq/ft apartment to a 2,500 Sq/ft home certainly makes for a large increse in utility bills.
Word of advice for everyone out there currently going through, or thinking about going through the homebuying process: Budget for TWICE as much as you think you're going to need/spend.