01-23-2007, 03:54 PM
An example of how closing costs are marginalized by staying in the house for 3 years assuming zero growth? 
That sounds about right. Our combined salary in '01 was around what you make and we were pressed to pay for a $215k house. It's damn near impossible to buy anything in this area these days if you're single income and don't want to rent rooms out.
Mike Wrote:the calculator i just ran says with my pretty healthy salary, i can afford a 200k house
That sounds about right. Our combined salary in '01 was around what you make and we were pressed to pay for a $215k house. It's damn near impossible to buy anything in this area these days if you're single income and don't want to rent rooms out.
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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