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[SaveTheTurtles]

I also will look up previous homes to see if they are for sale as many times you can see updates made. Thought I was the only one that did this, LOL.

[Boehm Collector]

@Neetgal2 .   My parents purchased their home in 1961.  I lived there until I got married but was there every day to visit my parents.   I sold the house after my mother passed away.  Before the closing I took photos of every single room.   I know the people who purchased it made some renovations.   They have invited me to go and see it several times but I just can't bring myself to accept their invitations.   I want to remember it as it was ... with all the memories I have,  

[wagirl]

My brother and I went to see our chidhood house a few years back. It was being reno-ed to sell --we looked in the windows and walked around the place---no one was living there as it was under construction. Was fun to see how good it looked--I always hated that house--was kind of a dumpy place---needed lots of work back in the 60's---my mom lived there til she died about 8 years ago---

I've had 2 houses til now---the last one I sold in 2021---lived there for 35 years--have looked it up online without much success, the first one I sold in 1985--have seen that one a few times but not for at last 25 years, maybe more. 

[Marsha2003]

I looked up my childhood home on Google Earth, so I could only see the outside and it looked almost exactly the same as when we moved from it 40-odd years ago.

[Squirrels Are Trash]

My grandparents bought my parents the house I grew up in. It was kind of a dump with a freeway exit almost in the backyard. The grands wanted to give them a head start financially. My grands also provided all the grandchildren (except me) significant funds for a down payment. My parents told my grandparents they would help me so their contribution wasn't necessary. My parents didn't provide any funds to me. When I raised this with my father, he said that money from my grandparents was his, not mine.

Somewhat ironically, my father died at (49), before his parents could leave him "his" money.

Not everyone's parents wish them well.

[Lucky Charm]

We have such a connection to family homes, that many have been bought and lived in over the last 50 years (!) and still enjoyed.

Such a connection for me that I actually paid to have my grandparents orig phone number when I bought their house.  It was the first phone number I ever dialed....