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NP here.  Maybe the 4000K won't get you into the house of your dreams but it could get you into a home.  Early 40s here so not a boomer.  Bought first house (single family home in FFX county at 28 years old).  First house was definitely not in a super desirable location but was cute and spacious.  It was a fixer upper.  When I got laid off after the 2001 tech bust, I had to take a roommate to make the mortgage. I painted it and spruced it up on a real budget and slowly over time.  I owned it--not wasting money on rent.  I never ate out and I had to cancel several "essentials" like cable in order to make the bills after the lay off.  Very little vacation.  I mowed my own lawn (gasp).  I raked my own leaves.  No garage.  BUT.... about 10 years later, I sold it for a tidy profit and then moved into a much larger home in a more desirable neighborhood.  By then, my salary had increased, I had married.  I was older.

I think a big knock on millennial is that they want the life of a 40 or 50 year old at 20 or 30.  I don't think anyone begrudges other people from wanting nice vacations or nice homes or nice cars and nice food etc.  But many of us have that at 40 plus after not having it at 20/30.  So, I guess I am saying, people don't judge the avocado sandwich.  It is that when I was buying my house at 28 years old, I was eating pasta and sauce a lot.  [/quote]

Wait-wait-wait.

You bought your first house at 28 and later were laid off in 2001...
It's 2019. How are you in your early forties?[/quote]

I was born in 1975.  Finished college in 96. Finished law school 2000.  Lay offs were common in law firms in the early half of the 2000s after the tech bubble burst, 9/11 and lots of law firm merging.  Bought house in 2003.[/quote]

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