When you buy a property, you are buying a house. A building made from bricks or blocks, wood and nails. It is the people that move into the house that make it a home; their home.
We grow together and raise a family in our home. Often times we get married and have our first child in our home. We watch that baby take her first steps and say her first words in that home. We share the joy of our accomplishments, and in turn we comfort each other in sadness and sorrow. That home becomes so much more than just a building with four walls. It holds those precious moments for us; the good times, as well as the bad. We learn to grow. It becomes a part of who we are.
Every home has a different smell, a different "feel" to it. Some are warm and homey, while others may seem cold and uninviting to an outsider. But, it's the place that we come back to (even if just in our memory). Where we sit down and rest our head at the end of a long day. Where often times our pet greets us at the door. It's a place where we can be ourselves. It's a place where we can share our lives with those that love us.
So, often we see people that have become emotionally attached to their homes, because of all of the memories it holds.
Today, I can still remember the warmth and love I felt when we went to my Grandma's home. The holidays were my favorite. I could smell the big juicy turkey cooking in the oven, and the apple pies cooling on the stove. We would run across the street and play in the sand and stick our toes in the icy cold water of the ocean. Grandma would squeeze us as tight as she could (sometimes I thought I was going to break) and she would pinch our cheek till it turned a rosy red. She would tell us not to forget how special we were. Today, the house is gone, replaced by a 5 star high rise hotel and parking lot, overlooking the gentle waves of the ocean lapping at the shore. But, I still remember the love I felt while being at Grandma's home.
It's the love and the people in it that make a house a home.
Sandy Shores REALTOR®, Melbourne/Palm Bay FL Real Estate
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Sandy: what a great post! I too remember the smell of turkey cooking at my Grandparents' house on Thanksgiving. I am definitely one who gets very attached to her home. It usually takes me the better part of a year after moving to a new place to feel truly at home again. That's why I love this business. We get to help people find that perfect place to become a part of them and their family. You can't put a value on that!
Awesome post...i have fond memories of my childhood home as well as the homes of my grandparents! I look back at how simple their homes were by todays standards...but they were a castle to me!!!
There are many people who live in a house...But it takes Love to makd a house a home!
Sandy - An excellent post. Thank you for sharing an informative and helpful blog.
John
Sandy
Great post, i had always felt the home is where our heart and family resides.
Good luck and success.
Lou Ludwig
Sandy, I don't think I even need the 4 walls anymore, "home is where the heart is" and that's about all there is to it for me. Thanks!
This is so true. A house has no special meaning in your heart without all the great memories! Aaron
Sandy a real nice blog. My granmothers house is gone now also. As you say they can't take the memories away.
Hi Sandy, This is such a heart warming post. I remember how both of my grandma's houses smelled, grandmas are special! Today, I would be at home almost anywhere as long as those I love were there.
Randi is absolutely right! It takes love to make a home! Everything else is bricks and mortar! I've been in my home for 27 years now! I bought it as a fixer, and fixed most of it cosmetically before I moved in. My kids grew up in here. Now they come home with my grandkids, and we continue to make memories! Although I live alone, the love and memories of glorious past events permeate the walls. This house is small monument now - to all those wonderful years!
Awesome post! Memories are made in homes where there is love and laughter! Thanks for the reminder.
Sandy, this is so true on so many levels. This is one reason why the sellers feel their homes are worth so much more. While buyer's have no emotional attachment and often feel quite differently.
Cari, Grandma's house was the best, wasn't it? So you know exactly the love that you feel being a part of a home. It's a feeling that you never let go of. It makes you all warm and fuzzy inside.
Deborah, Funny, but Grandma's home was simple, but yet a castle, almost a magical place to visit.
Randi, You're so right, it takes love to make a home.
John, I love sharing memories of the past. We can see where the emotional attachment that sellers have, actually comes from. It's the love shared in the home.
Hi Lou, I like that...the home is where our heart resides. I love it!
Kevin, That's an interesting concept that I hadn't thought of - that you really don't need the 4 walls. Home is just where your heart is. Hmmm, okay I can see that.
Aaron, It is really about all the warm memories that we've had in that home.
John, It makes me sad to know that my Grandma's house is gone. But the memories live in our hearts, don't they? Did your grandmother live close?
Mary, Grandma's are the best, aren't they? I like that...you could be home anywhere as long as you know that love is there. That's neat.
Myrl, Wow, the same place for 27 years, I'll bet the walls are bursting will all those loving memories. How blessed that you raised your children there and now you are watching your grandchildren grow up. You're a lucky lady.
Kathy, Love and laughter give a home everything it needs.
Gabe, Great point in making the correlation between the wonderful memories our homes hold and the fact that some sellers feel their homes are worth more than they really are. And, true. buyers look at it with a different set of eyes.
Sandy ~ Why is it when we are buying property we are buying a home and when we are selling home we tell them we are selling property? Its to get them to detach emotionally I guess. You can't take the house but you can take the memories. I have very fond memories in different places like my Aunt June's is where we had Thanks Giving and she has now put her property up for sale and the first thing I felt was sadness. It's the next phase of her life and I got say LIVE it. Good Post!
Sandy,
So true.... I remember all the homes I have lived in and each has its special memories!
Ann Hayden in Wildwood, MO
Hi Sandy - What a meaningful post. Even though my parents sold my childhood home, I know the walls will always retain the memories no matter who lives there now.
June, It is sad when a family home goes up for sale. But as you mentioned, we've got to emotionally detach ourselves, as we remind our sellers to do the same. And we take all those wonderful memories with us.
Hi Ann, You're right - each house does have it's own set of special memories, so true.
Hi John, The memories will always remain in your heart.
Sandy,
That is what makes the house a home.....
Ann Hayden in Wildwood, MO
Ann, So much love, warmth and dreams go into making a house a home.
Sandy,
I hope things are good for you in FL!
Ann Hayden in Wildwood, MO