Chuck Haberstroh and Jacque Horelik haven’t set the date, but they have bought a home in Fairfield. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo
Sunday’s New York Times features a Westport couple who bought a house together before they got married. Or engaged.
The newspaper’s real estate section, delivered to home subscribers today and available online, recounts the real estate and love relationship between Westporters Chuck Haberstroh, 30, and Jacque Horelik, 28.
“These days it’s not wedding bells that are breaking up the old gang,” the newspaper said. “It’s real estate. For some very sound (if not grandma-pleasing) reasons, the first house often precedes the march down the aisle.”
Haberstroh, eldest son of Westport Board of Finance member Charles Haberstroh and wife, Patty, and Horelik decided to close on a three-bedroom Cape Cod-style home in Fairfield two months ago. They got it for $430,000, $29,000 less than the asking price.
“My whole thing was with this market, get the house—the one you want and love—first,” Haberstroh told the newspaper.
As for Horelik, she said: “I was itching to get engaged before we bought the house. Chuck definitely felt the pressure from me and both our families.”
The Times said the couple got engaged the first night they slept in the home and are hoping for a late summer wedding.
Best of luck to these young people and much happiness to them and their families.
Jacque, I remember you from way back in pre-school days with my daughter, and Chuck, your younger brother and sister were there with my son just a few years later—all good memories!
May all your times and memories together be many and happy!