08-17-2009, 06:12 PM
Mike Wrote:have you worked 20-30 years? because my house's value isn't that much more than yours... AND you spend a lot more "other" money than me... and i'm guessing (actually, i know) our combined income in about the same as yours... and i'm willing to take on a roommate.
I'm an outside case because we made $160k on our previous house and used that as a downpayment. Without that ridiculous jump in equity, we couldn't have afforded the house we have when we bought it. I also don't think our houses are worth anywhere near each other anymore. We could afford it as a first home now, but only because it's dropped 25-30% of it's value. The bottom fell out around these parts but it hasn't really inside the beltway because 1) it wasn't nearly as inflated as the 'burbs and 2) government and defense spending has made that area somewhat immune.
edit: Here are the assessments.
You
* $540,100 on 2008
* $558,200 on 2007
* $564,900 on 2006
Me
* $428,700 on 2008
* $466,300 on 2007
* $540,900 on 2006
I'm pretty sure you could afford what you're looking for in this area. I know that's not an option for you but you gotta pay to be at the center of the universe.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth