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[quote=Anonymous]biggest "coup" was being born to parents who were able to save for college so there was enough not only to pay for college but to give us most of a down payment too (note that they were the first ones in their family to go to college-- my grandfather was a mechanic-- and they are not in need of cash from us). second biggest "coup" was buying in Adams Morgan not long after the riots. on a small scale, we've steadily bought i-bonds, and some of the older ones earn over 5% right now, which is nice especially since they double as our emergency fund. biggest mistake-- that I know of so far at least-- was leaving money on the table when we sold that place in Adams Morgan (for which I partly blame us and partly our real estate agent) (on a purely financial scale, not keeping that place as a rental might have been a mistake but I did not want to be a landlord and I am not sure we could have swung the downpayment on a new place without selling it)[/quote]
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