Jesus refers to "'My Father's house'" (Jn 14:2). A house is where a household or family lives. He says further that in it are "'many dwelling places'" (:2). A dwelling is an abode where you abide, stay or remain. He also says "'I go to prepare a place for you'" (:2). You could conclude that a place to stay is like a condominium in a building. But the "place" (:2) prepared, according to the concordance, is the Hebrew word meaning to rest, reside, remain, and to quietly settle down in comfort. In the same sense Paul illustrates that he must "remain on in the flesh" (Php 1:24) just as Peter states "as long as I am in this tent" (2Pe 1:13 KJV). It is also called an "earthly dwelling" (:13 NASB). Even Paul refers to "the earthly tent, which is our house" (1Co 5:1). Furthermore "while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord" (2Co 5:5). Now our home is in the body where we live. However, Paul advises to "prefer rather to be absent from the body and be at home with the Lord" (1Co 5:6). So if "our house is torn down, we have a building from God . . . eternal in the heavens: (:1). It does not literally mean that you will have a new house in a culdesac on a street in heaven. It is referred to as a "dwelling from heaven" (:2), but "having put it on, [you] will not be found naked" (:3). You will be "clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life" (:4). Is that your resurrection body that is provided at the Second Coming (1Th 4:16-17)? Consider though that at the Transfiguration "two men were talking with Him, and they were Moses and Elijah" (Lk 9:30). Also at the Ascension "two men in white clothing stood beside them" (Ac 1:10). They said Jesus "'will come just the same way'" (:11). The first two had been previously taken up by God, and the other two were apparently angels.
This is possible because Jesus "gave us the Spirit as a pledge" (2Co 5:5). "Be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling so practice these things" (2Pe 1:10). "In this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our lord . . . will be abundantly supplied to you" (:11). "For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison' (2Co 4:17).