Yes I know. If you read more closely before cursing at me, you’ll see that I say I once was house poor and I hated it, so I changed my circumstances. But thanks for cursing at me. You sound like my abusive ex- his own stupidity made him so so angry. |
710k mortgage is not that bad with interest rates this low. This is like a 500-600k mortgage under higher rates. You’ll have a lot of mortgage interest to deduct as well. |
It sounds like you're bragging about your frugality....but then you act like having a huge car payment and financing a depreciating asset is impressive. 600 bucks for a single car payment is ridiculous. |
They rent. |
What was the purchase price of your house? I would like to think I’m frugal but come one, don’t sit on your high horse..I don’t think this is anything to brag about. You’re just really cheap. Even if you put 200k down your house couldn’t cost more than 500k unless you bought a long time ago and refinanced. In any event, you must live very far out..which is a choice. It’s like when DCUM land brags about how smart they are driving around a 15yo clunker car. Again, nothing to brag about just like I’m not going to brag about my Audi. Live a little! |
The PP who would throw up. You must be a pretty miserable person. OP will be totally fine. I wonder if this person invests in stocks or just hoards cash under the mattress. Genuinely confused by them. |
Just one small thing to add to this convo...
Not having childcare expenses is one thing, but you never know what might come up that you weren't expecting that can be just as expensive. So having a large amount of savings or being prepared to significantly tighten the purse strings is important when you max out your mortgage. Daycare costs have been done for a few years for me but I now find myself paying 2 grand/month in dyslexia therapy for my kid. It will lessen in a few months but there's a maintenance therapy that will continue indefinitely. We can absorb about 75% of the cost with budget adjustments but the rest will come out of savings. We have an almost identical take home pay as OP but a mortgage closer to 500k with a payment just under 3k. |
I would not be sleeping at ninight. |
Just rent out the basement or a room.
A ton of people do it. Especially in my NoVa neighborhood and Mont co. You’ll be fine. |
What? a one bedroom apartment for $2500? Renting isn't cheaper. |
Why would that be scary? Rates are so low there isn't a big upside in cash flow to putting down much more. |
A studio apartment. A TH in an unfashionable neighborhood. Roommates. You do what people do the world over when priced out of their dream home. You compromise on size, location, and fanciness. Here's one for under $100k - https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5000-Call-Pl-SE-APT-203-Washington-DC-20019/88798141_zpid/ Two bedrooms for $124k: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2100-Fendall-St-SE-UNIT-1-Washington-DC-20020/68082158_zpid/ Do you want to live here? Maybe not! COULD you live there? Certainly. |
Um, I have a senior in high school and a senior in college. It is actually that simple. |
OP, if you are real, you’ll have to wait and see how things feel. In other words, do you despise living on a budget? I do. I am noticeably happier with a lot of disposable income, even if I just end up investing a lot of it.
I constantly fantasize about upgrading our house so I just sock money away anticipating that we can do that in a few years without increasing our mortgage payment dramatically. But then other times I think maybe I’ll start a business instead. When my money is pre-committed too much I just feel sad. We take home 14k after maxing out 2 401ks and our mortgage is $1900. |
or single parents who are MC? how do they live in the DMV? |