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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]7 pages in and everyone is contributing their own version of “screw you, I got mine” while ignoring OP was focused on those under 35 buying $2-3M homes.

We get that many of you saved aggressively and traded up between mid 30s to 50s. You all keep repeating the same story that ironically was only possible for most of you because of unprecedented property appreciation in this country since 2008. Yet you all think you’re brilliant for benefitting from a macroeconomic trend.

[b]How many PP’s bought a $2-3M home under 35 with kids without parental support or a trust in the DC area?[/b][/quote]

My 28-year-old son and his 27-year-old wife just purchased a $2M home in McLean with $1.2M down and an $800K mortgage. He graduated in 2020 and is currently working as a senior software engineer for Amazon for a cool $350K/year. His wife graduated in 2021 and is currently working for Google for a cool $300K/year. They got married in 2020 and lived with my wife and me for five years to save the $1.2M down payment (with some luck in the stock market) prior to purchasing the home. They plan on paying off the mortgage in the next two years. It is not that difficult.[/quote]

Do you have a guest house? It would be a cold day in hell that I would agree to live with my in laws or future daughter or son in law. Share a kitchen, family room, and laundry room? Have sex with them down the hallway? [/quote]

They lived in our guest house, which features a full kitchen, family room, and laundry room. Fortunately, we spend our winters in Florida and Vietnam and travel extensively between spring and fall, so we really only saw them during the summer. FWIW, I get along great with my daughter-in-law; she has actually been my younger daughter's best friend since first grade.

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I mean, this is great and I congratulate you.  But I find it pretty sad and weird that you know exactly how much money that both your son and DIL make and how they fare in the stock market.  It sounds like you are a very money driven family and that you have few boundaries with each other.

Referring to their salaries as a "cool" this and a "cool" that is pretty pathetic as well.  And with Amazon and Google?  Yuck.  [/quote]

I know how much they make and how much they saved because they told me. I couldn't care less either way. I used to work in private equity, and my wife was a CPA, so they trusted us to invest their money wisely and advise them on how to pay the least tax possible. FWIW, don't you have better things to do with your miserable life?[/quote]

Yea, right, you "couldn't care less."  That's why you're on here naming their employers and their salaries.  And you used to work in private equity and your wife's a CPA.  And you know exactly what they paid for their house and what their mortgage is.  And you "helped them invest" and save on taxes.

But no, you "couldn't care less" about what they make.

Right.[/quote]

It's OK.  It keeps this guy off the school threads for a while.  He's a long-time DCUM poster and very weird. [/quote]

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