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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP again.  I want to underscore this point because you all seem hung up on a typo.  I have LITERALLY been saying the same thing for at least 8 years on this very site.

You can find houses that cost less than $600k without moving to bum-f nowhere.  There are houses in the city even.  You just have to change your expectations.  I said this in 2008 to 2012 and suggested places like Brookland or Trinidad or Petworth and you all whined about why that wasn’t right for you and you wanted a $300k renovated house in a perfect location with amazing schools in upper NW.  Now you’re complaining that Brookland and Petworth are too expensive and you can’t possibly survive on less than $300k.

WAKE UP!  People do survive on less.  There is a huge amount of income diversity in this city.  Many of your neighbors are literally struggling to get by.  Pretty much anyone that reads this site is affluent in some manner.  Yes, even me on around $95k HHI.

If you can’t afford Bethesda look at Silver Spring.  If you can’t afford Brookland look at Woodridge or Mount Rainier or Hyattsville.  Buy a house that’s a little rundown but livable, or better yet, get a foreclosure.  And if you don’t, don’t whine to me about how high your mortgage bill is and if only you’d bought your house when you were in high school.  Buy a house now, that you can afford and open your eyes to different neighborhoods.  In five years time, your younger siblings will be singing the same tune you are.
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Definitely not a troll. Just ungracious and arrogant.

A $600k house does not have a $1400 mortgage payment. And all the neighborhoods you are suggesting have far worse schools than Bethesda, but you seem REALLY hung up renovations and appliances -- which most people don't care about, since they value commute and schools over nice and big

OP was asking for representative situations to see how folks make it work to apply to her situation; your case is exceptional and in no way similar to buying a fixer upper in Trinidad. Yet you don't seem to appreciate the good fortune you had; most of us count not buy in 2004 having just started working and having significant loans. And homes in Bethesda were not down to even $700k in 2009; You may be suggesting we become real estate speculators and a buy a home in nE which we know would not work in the long term and gamble we will appreciate and then move up?  But that is a big leveraged gamble...

Since you are frothing to the point you are replying to your own posts, take a breath and consider how your situation is possible because of good fortune with your mortgage, not because you are especially thrifty. 
Buy in 200[/quote]

You're having trouble reading, aren't you? [b]My house is EXACTLY the equivalent to buying a fixer upper in Trinidad[/b] ( a few years ago). Though Trinidad is now too expensive. You should have bought there a couple of years ago, when I recommended it. You're also ignoring everything I have said. You're unwilling to live somewhere without perfect schools, without perfect housing stock and without fitting your needs exactly. Well, that's why you think that starter homes start at $600k. They don't. You can find homes in the $300k range and below (and a mortgage under $2k) if you loosen up your requirements.

You don't want to loosen your requirements? That's fine, but don't tell me it's not possible to live for less than $300k (or whatever) in the DC area. Because it is.[/quote]

I'm back to thinking this PP is a troll. Bethesda is exactly like Trinidad? Or maybe you are an aspiring fantasy writer?[/quote]

FFS, why do so many people have comprehension problems? Why on earth would you think I live in Bethesda? As I said (more than once, I think) I bought a fixer upper in what was then a sketchy neighborhood in 2004. On my own. I also said I lived centrally in DC. How you could turn that into Bethesda, I can not imagine.[/quote]

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