I was so close and now I’m shut out

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Anonymous wrote:OP here and I can’t believe th lack of reading comprehension here. Nowhere did I say I want to saddle myself with a 1.7M house or even 1.3M. That’s exactly the point! I can’t do that and won’t do that, but I could have had that’s EXACT SAME HOUSE and all the advantages that come with it, had I bought it at 1.1-1.2 2-3 years ago. That is the point. The exact same thing is suddenly no longer accessible to people who have saved and denied themselves literally their entire adult life to get it, only to see it slip away forever.

OP, just wondering why you weren't able to buy back then? It sounds like this was a really important goal for you. What happened? Did you make offers but lost out to others? Were you waiting for a house in a particular neighborhood/school district and none came open?

does it really matter? OP is where she is now.

To find another reason the bash someone online, since that gives people so much pleasure, of course!

This is what’s really happened here. Those of you whining that you can’t have empathy because most people can’t have that live nowhere near the DMV and have no idea what’s happened in the past three years in real estate here. Yes, some places have gone up that much. And the interest rate doubled.

And where I lived before, only the UMC lived in homes over $400,000 so it’s rich to see so many of you in your $300,000 and $700,000 homes feel insulted and insult her as privileged. What a bunch of self-centered, unaware trolls.

+1 this thread is a bunch of really privileged people getting upset and offended because someone else might be marginally more privileged than they are

So?

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Anonymous wrote:OP, I think some time away from this board might serve you well. This board can make people feel like failures if they can't afford a beautiful SFH in Bethesda or Chevy Chase. The truth is, most people can't. There are tons of people in a similar situation as you (including me) who are extremely frustrated right now by how dramatically housing prices have increased in the past few years as they were saving to buy for the first time or trade up. The only thing you can really do is figure out a path forward and try to stop thinking about what could have been. I am not that great at it myself, but I have reached a point of some peace with the situation and how to proceed moving forward. I can't say I don't think about what could have been, but I try not to obsess over it.

Thanks. I guess it’s hard because nearly everyone of my peers has what I always wanted and it’s constantly shoved in my and my kids’ faces and I feel like I have failed. I did fail.

Are you a real person? You failed because you don't own a $1.5M house in Bethesda? And how exactly is it shoved in your face? By the mere existence of your peers?

OP is a troll. The world she describes doesn’t exist. If OP were real she’d buy a house she can afford like every other homebuyer.

DP. I think everyone responding to OP like this a troll and a sociopath. So many posters on DCUM want houses of the same cost as what OP wants. They are desperate for them. They complain they are having a "freak out" over low inventory..OP is a person who saved for a long time for something she wants, and now can't have it. So many of us have been there. It's a horrible feeling. For us it was a house in a neighborhood where you could get a livable SFH for $500k in 2019. Same model house in worse condition worse lot, went for over $600k in 2021. We felt awful. We did end up compromising and getting a townhouse. We're very happy with our home now.

When close friends with more money had rough experiences 2022 to find their $900k and $2 million homes, did I say "stop complaining, you are so privileged, you can't possibly be real"? No, because I'm not a sociopath and am capable of empathy.

OP, just ignore these fools. They cannot possibly be real people.

OP is a single mom who says she could have afforded a $1.7M home by herself with 3% interest rates. The monthly payment for a house that expensive, even back then, was probably around $8,000-$10,000 a month. So OP is probably making around $300,000 or more to even think of that purchase.

So, to you, people are sociopaths because they’re a little taken aback that a rich lady, by any standard, is complaining that she can’t afford a $1.7M house anymore. Are you trolling as well? You don’t see the hubris it takes to fish for empathy from strangers when you’re such an incredibly privileged person because you can’t afford a $1.7M house anymore BY YOURSELF?!

Here’s a charming colonial in Bethesda for less than $900,000 with what appears to be a Wolf range. Maybe OP can “settle” and get a house like this, which is a nicer home than an overwhelming majority of people in this area can even think of affording with a partner, let alone by themselves, in an outstanding school district.

https://www.redfin.com/MD/Bethesda/5906-Roosevelt-St-20817/home/10662235


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Wow, that’s a great house! And affordable for OP!

Ummm. It is in MD..not VA.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here and I can’t believe th lack of reading comprehension here. Nowhere did I say I want to saddle myself with a 1.7M house or even 1.3M. That’s exactly the point! I can’t do that and won’t do that, but I could have had that’s EXACT SAME HOUSE and all the advantages that come with it, had I bought it at 1.1-1.2 2-3 years ago. That is the point. The exact same thing is suddenly no longer accessible to people who have saved and denied themselves literally their entire adult life to get it, only to see it slip away forever.

OP, just wondering why you weren't able to buy back then? It sounds like this was a really important goal for you. What happened? Did you make offers but lost out to others? Were you waiting for a house in a particular neighborhood/school district and none came open?

does it really matter? OP is where she is now.

To find another reason the bash someone online, since that gives people so much pleasure, of course!

This is what’s really happened here. Those of you whining that you can’t have empathy because most people can’t have that live nowhere near the DMV and have no idea what’s happened in the past three years in real estate here. Yes, some places have gone up that much. And the interest rate doubled.

And where I lived before, only the UMC lived in homes over $400,000 so it’s rich to see so many of you in your $300,000 and $700,000 homes feel insulted and insult her as privileged. What a bunch of self-centered, unaware trolls.

+1 this thread is a bunch of really privileged people getting upset and offended because someone else might be marginally more privileged than they are

OMG this whole thread was started by the privileged OP whining that she can’t afford a $1.7 mil house!!!

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Anonymous wrote:OP, I think some time away from this board might serve you well. This board can make people feel like failures if they can't afford a beautiful SFH in Bethesda or Chevy Chase. The truth is, most people can't. There are tons of people in a similar situation as you (including me) who are extremely frustrated right now by how dramatically housing prices have increased in the past few years as they were saving to buy for the first time or trade up. The only thing you can really do is figure out a path forward and try to stop thinking about what could have been. I am not that great at it myself, but I have reached a point of some peace with the situation and how to proceed moving forward. I can't say I don't think about what could have been, but I try not to obsess over it.

Thanks. I guess it’s hard because nearly everyone of my peers has what I always wanted and it’s constantly shoved in my and my kids’ faces and I feel like I have failed. I did fail.

Are you a real person? You failed because you don't own a $1.5M house in Bethesda? And how exactly is it shoved in your face? By the mere existence of your peers?

OP is a troll. The world she describes doesn’t exist. If OP were real she’d buy a house she can afford like every other homebuyer.

DP. I think everyone responding to OP like this a troll and a sociopath. So many posters on DCUM want houses of the same cost as what OP wants. They are desperate for them. They complain they are having a "freak out" over low inventory..OP is a person who saved for a long time for something she wants, and now can't have it. So many of us have been there. It's a horrible feeling. For us it was a house in a neighborhood where you could get a livable SFH for $500k in 2019. Same model house in worse condition worse lot, went for over $600k in 2021. We felt awful. We did end up compromising and getting a townhouse. We're very happy with our home now.

When close friends with more money had rough experiences 2022 to find their $900k and $2 million homes, did I say "stop complaining, you are so privileged, you can't possibly be real"? No, because I'm not a sociopath and am capable of empathy.

OP, just ignore these fools. They cannot possibly be real people.

OP is a single mom who says she could have afforded a $1.7M home by herself with 3% interest rates. The monthly payment for a house that expensive, even back then, was probably around $8,000-$10,000 a month. So OP is probably making around $300,000 or more to even think of that purchase.

So, to you, people are sociopaths because they’re a little taken aback that a rich lady, by any standard, is complaining that she can’t afford a $1.7M house anymore. Are you trolling as well? You don’t see the hubris it takes to fish for empathy from strangers when you’re such an incredibly privileged person because you can’t afford a $1.7M house anymore BY YOURSELF?!

Here’s a charming colonial in Bethesda for less than $900,000 with what appears to be a Wolf range. Maybe OP can “settle” and get a house like this, which is a nicer home than an overwhelming majority of people in this area can even think of affording with a partner, let alone by themselves, in an outstanding school district.

https://www.redfin.com/MD/Bethesda/5906-Roosevelt-St-20817/home/10662235


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Wow, that’s a great house! And affordable for OP!

Ummm. It is in MD..not VA.

Did OP say she had to be in VA? She never told us where she was looking. Or her actual budget. Hard to give useful recommendations.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here and I can’t believe th lack of reading comprehension here. Nowhere did I say I want to saddle myself with a 1.7M house or even 1.3M. That’s exactly the point! I can’t do that and won’t do that, but I could have had that’s EXACT SAME HOUSE and all the advantages that come with it, had I bought it at 1.1-1.2 2-3 years ago. That is the point. The exact same thing is suddenly no longer accessible to people who have saved and denied themselves literally their entire adult life to get it, only to see it slip away forever.

OP, just wondering why you weren't able to buy back then? It sounds like this was a really important goal for you. What happened? Did you make offers but lost out to others? Were you waiting for a house in a particular neighborhood/school district and none came open?

does it really matter? OP is where she is now.

To find another reason the bash someone online, since that gives people so much pleasure, of course!

This is what’s really happened here. Those of you whining that you can’t have empathy because most people can’t have that live nowhere near the DMV and have no idea what’s happened in the past three years in real estate here. Yes, some places have gone up that much. And the interest rate doubled.

And where I lived before, only the UMC lived in homes over $400,000 so it’s rich to see so many of you in your $300,000 and $700,000 homes feel insulted and insult her as privileged. What a bunch of self-centered, unaware trolls.

Many people here have posted that they are living in the DMV in houses far cheaper than OP will consider.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP, I think some time away from this board might serve you well. This board can make people feel like failures if they can't afford a beautiful SFH in Bethesda or Chevy Chase. The truth is, most people can't. There are tons of people in a similar situation as you (including me) who are extremely frustrated right now by how dramatically housing prices have increased in the past few years as they were saving to buy for the first time or trade up. The only thing you can really do is figure out a path forward and try to stop thinking about what could have been. I am not that great at it myself, but I have reached a point of some peace with the situation and how to proceed moving forward. I can't say I don't think about what could have been, but I try not to obsess over it.

Thanks. I guess it’s hard because nearly everyone of my peers has what I always wanted and it’s constantly shoved in my and my kids’ faces and I feel like I have failed. I did fail.

Are you a real person? You failed because you don't own a $1.5M house in Bethesda? And how exactly is it shoved in your face? By the mere existence of your peers?

OP is a troll. The world she describes doesn’t exist. If OP were real she’d buy a house she can afford like every other homebuyer.

DP. I think everyone responding to OP like this a troll and a sociopath. So many posters on DCUM want houses of the same cost as what OP wants. They are desperate for them. They complain they are having a "freak out" over low inventory..OP is a person who saved for a long time for something she wants, and now can't have it. So many of us have been there. It's a horrible feeling. For us it was a house in a neighborhood where you could get a livable SFH for $500k in 2019. Same model house in worse condition worse lot, went for over $600k in 2021. We felt awful. We did end up compromising and getting a townhouse. We're very happy with our home now.

When close friends with more money had rough experiences 2022 to find their $900k and $2 million homes, did I say "stop complaining, you are so privileged, you can't possibly be real"? No, because I'm not a sociopath and am capable of empathy.

OP, just ignore these fools. They cannot possibly be real people.

OP is a single mom who says she could have afforded a $1.7M home by herself with 3% interest rates. The monthly payment for a house that expensive, even back then, was probably around $8,000-$10,000 a month. So OP is probably making around $300,000 or more to even think of that purchase.

So, to you, people are sociopaths because they’re a little taken aback that a rich lady, by any standard, is complaining that she can’t afford a $1.7M house anymore. Are you trolling as well? You don’t see the hubris it takes to fish for empathy from strangers when you’re such an incredibly privileged person because you can’t afford a $1.7M house anymore BY YOURSELF?!

Here’s a charming colonial in Bethesda for less than $900,000 with what appears to be a Wolf range. Maybe OP can “settle” and get a house like this, which is a nicer home than an overwhelming majority of people in this area can even think of affording with a partner, let alone by themselves, in an outstanding school district.

https://www.redfin.com/MD/Bethesda/5906-Roosevelt-St-20817/home/10662235


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OP there is a good point in here, which is that you can’t compare yourself to dual income families. Presumably you are divorced, which can be a financial hardship, n top of only having one income. You have to run your own race.

Your kids are going to college soon. Maybe best to keep renting and retain flexibility to move where they go to school or end up settling?

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Anonymous wrote:OP here and I can’t believe th lack of reading comprehension here. Nowhere did I say I want to saddle myself with a 1.7M house or even 1.3M. That’s exactly the point! I can’t do that and won’t do that, but I could have had that’s EXACT SAME HOUSE and all the advantages that come with it, had I bought it at 1.1-1.2 2-3 years ago. That is the point. The exact same thing is suddenly no longer accessible to people who have saved and denied themselves literally their entire adult life to get it, only to see it slip away forever.

OP, just wondering why you weren't able to buy back then? It sounds like this was a really important goal for you. What happened? Did you make offers but lost out to others? Were you waiting for a house in a particular neighborhood/school district and none came open?

does it really matter? OP is where she is now.

To find another reason the bash someone online, since that gives people so much pleasure, of course!

This is what’s really happened here. Those of you whining that you can’t have empathy because most people can’t have that live nowhere near the DMV and have no idea what’s happened in the past three years in real estate here. Yes, some places have gone up that much. And the interest rate doubled.

And where I lived before, only the UMC lived in homes over $400,000 so it’s rich to see so many of you in your $300,000 and $700,000 homes feel insulted and insult her as privileged. What a bunch of self-centered, unaware trolls.

Many people here have posted that they are living in the DMV in houses far cheaper than OP will consider.

She never said she wouldn’t consider cheaper houses. You all are reading into her vent and frustration, assuming the worst of her, taking it personally, and generally being a-holes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here and I can’t believe th lack of reading comprehension here. Nowhere did I say I want to saddle myself with a 1.7M house or even 1.3M. That’s exactly the point! I can’t do that and won’t do that, but I could have had that’s EXACT SAME HOUSE and all the advantages that come with it, had I bought it at 1.1-1.2 2-3 years ago. That is the point. The exact same thing is suddenly no longer accessible to people who have saved and denied themselves literally their entire adult life to get it, only to see it slip away forever.

OP, just wondering why you weren't able to buy back then? It sounds like this was a really important goal for you. What happened? Did you make offers but lost out to others? Were you waiting for a house in a particular neighborhood/school district and none came open?

does it really matter? OP is where she is now.

To find another reason the bash someone online, since that gives people so much pleasure, of course!

This is what’s really happened here. Those of you whining that you can’t have empathy because most people can’t have that live nowhere near the DMV and have no idea what’s happened in the past three years in real estate here. Yes, some places have gone up that much. And the interest rate doubled.

And where I lived before, only the UMC lived in homes over $400,000 so it’s rich to see so many of you in your $300,000 and $700,000 homes feel insulted and insult her as privileged. What a bunch of self-centered, unaware trolls.

+1 this thread is a bunch of really privileged people getting upset and offended because someone else might be marginally more privileged than they are

Along with a bunch of non-privileged people who can’t even contemplate being able to afford a million dollar home.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here and I can’t believe th lack of reading comprehension here. Nowhere did I say I want to saddle myself with a 1.7M house or even 1.3M. That’s exactly the point! I can’t do that and won’t do that, but I could have had that’s EXACT SAME HOUSE and all the advantages that come with it, had I bought it at 1.1-1.2 2-3 years ago. That is the point. The exact same thing is suddenly no longer accessible to people who have saved and denied themselves literally their entire adult life to get it, only to see it slip away forever.

OP, just wondering why you weren't able to buy back then? It sounds like this was a really important goal for you. What happened? Did you make offers but lost out to others? Were you waiting for a house in a particular neighborhood/school district and none came open?

does it really matter? OP is where she is now.

To find another reason the bash someone online, since that gives people so much pleasure, of course!

This is what’s really happened here. Those of you whining that you can’t have empathy because most people can’t have that live nowhere near the DMV and have no idea what’s happened in the past three years in real estate here. Yes, some places have gone up that much. And the interest rate doubled.

And where I lived before, only the UMC lived in homes over $400,000 so it’s rich to see so many of you in your $300,000 and $700,000 homes feel insulted and insult her as privileged. What a bunch of self-centered, unaware trolls.

Many people here have posted that they are living in the DMV in houses far cheaper than OP will consider.

She never said she wouldn’t consider cheaper houses. You all are reading into her vent and frustration, assuming the worst of her, taking it personally, and generally being a-holes.

If she is willing to buy a cheaper home, why is she complaining so much? Just suck it up like the rest of it and buy what you can.

It’s really this melodrama of being shut out of the UMC, a meaningless distinction, which is just so silly.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here and I can’t believe th lack of reading comprehension here. Nowhere did I say I want to saddle myself with a 1.7M house or even 1.3M. That’s exactly the point! I can’t do that and won’t do that, but I could have had that’s EXACT SAME HOUSE and all the advantages that come with it, had I bought it at 1.1-1.2 2-3 years ago. That is the point. The exact same thing is suddenly no longer accessible to people who have saved and denied themselves literally their entire adult life to get it, only to see it slip away forever.

OP, just wondering why you weren't able to buy back then? It sounds like this was a really important goal for you. What happened? Did you make offers but lost out to others? Were you waiting for a house in a particular neighborhood/school district and none came open?

does it really matter? OP is where she is now.

To find another reason the bash someone online, since that gives people so much pleasure, of course!

This is what’s really happened here. Those of you whining that you can’t have empathy because most people can’t have that live nowhere near the DMV and have no idea what’s happened in the past three years in real estate here. Yes, some places have gone up that much. And the interest rate doubled.

And where I lived before, only the UMC lived in homes over $400,000 so it’s rich to see so many of you in your $300,000 and $700,000 homes feel insulted and insult her as privileged. What a bunch of self-centered, unaware trolls.

Many people here have posted that they are living in the DMV in houses far cheaper than OP will consider.

She never said she wouldn’t consider cheaper houses. You all are reading into her vent and frustration, assuming the worst of her, taking it personally, and generally being a-holes.

She hasn’t said what her budget is now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here and I can’t believe th lack of reading comprehension here. Nowhere did I say I want to saddle myself with a 1.7M house or even 1.3M. That’s exactly the point! I can’t do that and won’t do that, but I could have had that’s EXACT SAME HOUSE and all the advantages that come with it, had I bought it at 1.1-1.2 2-3 years ago. That is the point. The exact same thing is suddenly no longer accessible to people who have saved and denied themselves literally their entire adult life to get it, only to see it slip away forever.

OP, just wondering why you weren't able to buy back then? It sounds like this was a really important goal for you. What happened? Did you make offers but lost out to others? Were you waiting for a house in a particular neighborhood/school district and none came open?

does it really matter? OP is where she is now.

To find another reason the bash someone online, since that gives people so much pleasure, of course!

This is what’s really happened here. Those of you whining that you can’t have empathy because most people can’t have that live nowhere near the DMV and have no idea what’s happened in the past three years in real estate here. Yes, some places have gone up that much. And the interest rate doubled.

And where I lived before, only the UMC lived in homes over $400,000 so it’s rich to see so many of you in your $300,000 and $700,000 homes feel insulted and insult her as privileged. What a bunch of self-centered, unaware trolls.

Many people here have posted that they are living in the DMV in houses far cheaper than OP will consider.

She never said she wouldn’t consider cheaper houses. You all are reading into her vent and frustration, assuming the worst of her, taking it personally, and generally being a-holes.

She hasn’t said what her budget is now.

WHY would she want to trust you to help her? WHY bother to engage with so many jerks?

[Anonymous]

Looking at the rhetoric as well as some similar phrasings, etc. in a bunch of posts on both sides of this "debate," I think it is fair to say there is probably only 2-3 people max really duking this out at this point.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here and I can’t believe th lack of reading comprehension here. Nowhere did I say I want to saddle myself with a 1.7M house or even 1.3M. That’s exactly the point! I can’t do that and won’t do that, but I could have had that’s EXACT SAME HOUSE and all the advantages that come with it, had I bought it at 1.1-1.2 2-3 years ago. That is the point. The exact same thing is suddenly no longer accessible to people who have saved and denied themselves literally their entire adult life to get it, only to see it slip away forever.

OP, just wondering why you weren't able to buy back then? It sounds like this was a really important goal for you. What happened? Did you make offers but lost out to others? Were you waiting for a house in a particular neighborhood/school district and none came open?

does it really matter? OP is where she is now.

To find another reason the bash someone online, since that gives people so much pleasure, of course!

This is what’s really happened here. Those of you whining that you can’t have empathy because most people can’t have that live nowhere near the DMV and have no idea what’s happened in the past three years in real estate here. Yes, some places have gone up that much. And the interest rate doubled.

And where I lived before, only the UMC lived in homes over $400,000 so it’s rich to see so many of you in your $300,000 and $700,000 homes feel insulted and insult her as privileged. What a bunch of self-centered, unaware trolls.

+1 this thread is a bunch of really privileged people getting upset and offended because someone else might be marginally more privileged than they are

Dumb take. Two sanitation workers (garbage men) can literally make $100k a year in NYC and afford a $300k-$700k home. Ditto two upper step GS-11s, which are average middle class jobs. Salaries are higher in DC and NYC to adjust for the cost of living. A sanitation worker where you used to live is probably making half of what they’d make in NYC so of course they couldn’t afford a $500k home there. Context matters, obviously.

A single person, in this area, making enough to afford a $1.2M house is in a totally different class than the middle class couples who can afford a $300k to $700k homes and should have some self awareness about complaining about their inability to purchase a $1.2M home BY THEMSELVES. I’m using all caps because that is something everyone seems to be avoiding. If OP said she couldn’t afford a $1.2M condo in The Wharf and had to settle instead for a $800k condo on 14th Street NW would everyone be crying crocodile tears for her? This is beyond ridiculous and a lot of you people are tremendously out of touch.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here and I can’t believe th lack of reading comprehension here. Nowhere did I say I want to saddle myself with a 1.7M house or even 1.3M. That’s exactly the point! I can’t do that and won’t do that, but I could have had that’s EXACT SAME HOUSE and all the advantages that come with it, had I bought it at 1.1-1.2 2-3 years ago. That is the point. The exact same thing is suddenly no longer accessible to people who have saved and denied themselves literally their entire adult life to get it, only to see it slip away forever.

OP, just wondering why you weren't able to buy back then? It sounds like this was a really important goal for you. What happened? Did you make offers but lost out to others? Were you waiting for a house in a particular neighborhood/school district and none came open?

does it really matter? OP is where she is now.

To find another reason the bash someone online, since that gives people so much pleasure, of course!

This is what’s really happened here. Those of you whining that you can’t have empathy because most people can’t have that live nowhere near the DMV and have no idea what’s happened in the past three years in real estate here. Yes, some places have gone up that much. And the interest rate doubled.

And where I lived before, only the UMC lived in homes over $400,000 so it’s rich to see so many of you in your $300,000 and $700,000 homes feel insulted and insult her as privileged. What a bunch of self-centered, unaware trolls.

Many people here have posted that they are living in the DMV in houses far cheaper than OP will consider.

She never said she wouldn’t consider cheaper houses. You all are reading into her vent and frustration, assuming the worst of her, taking it personally, and generally being a-holes.

She hasn’t said what her budget is now.

WHY would she want to trust you to help her? WHY bother to engage with so many jerks?

Why bother posting anything then?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here and I can’t believe th lack of reading comprehension here. Nowhere did I say I want to saddle myself with a 1.7M house or even 1.3M. That’s exactly the point! I can’t do that and won’t do that, but I could have had that’s EXACT SAME HOUSE and all the advantages that come with it, had I bought it at 1.1-1.2 2-3 years ago. That is the point. The exact same thing is suddenly no longer accessible to people who have saved and denied themselves literally their entire adult life to get it, only to see it slip away forever.

OP, just wondering why you weren't able to buy back then? It sounds like this was a really important goal for you. What happened? Did you make offers but lost out to others? Were you waiting for a house in a particular neighborhood/school district and none came open?

does it really matter? OP is where she is now.

To find another reason the bash someone online, since that gives people so much pleasure, of course!

This is what’s really happened here. Those of you whining that you can’t have empathy because most people can’t have that live nowhere near the DMV and have no idea what’s happened in the past three years in real estate here. Yes, some places have gone up that much. And the interest rate doubled.

And where I lived before, only the UMC lived in homes over $400,000 so it’s rich to see so many of you in your $300,000 and $700,000 homes feel insulted and insult her as privileged. What a bunch of self-centered, unaware trolls.

+1 this thread is a bunch of really privileged people getting upset and offended because someone else might be marginally more privileged than they are

Along with a bunch of non-privileged people who can’t even contemplate being able to afford a million dollar home.

No hon. A non privileged person is someone who can't stay housed in a stable way because they can't afford the rent, much less save up for a $300k home. The fact so many of you have so little perspective that you feel the need to be this mean to someone complaining about the real estate market, says so much about you and it is not good.