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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's the situation- my husband and I are all cramped up in a two bedroom one bath condo in Arlington with two kids. We have been saving every dime living here. Our goal/dream has been to buy a house in north Arlington. We have been looking and looking recently. My oldest is 4 and ideally we want to be some where in the next year. Unfortunately, all of the homes in north Arlington between 8-850 are okay but some are still kind of small. My husband saw an awesome house for 900 and said I think we can do this. What?? We both do okay---220k combined! But, on paper it does appear we might be able to do this. we put in a bid and won. I do love the house. It's amazing--but now I'm totally freaking out. A mortgage of 4,100 seems huge. We have done budget after budget and it will be tight with childcare. If we back out now we loose the earnest deposit. Do real people do this and make it work? I'm so scared of making a bad financial decision. [/quote] I was you in 2011. Now, after accumulating too much credit card debt, we are probably going to put the house on the market and downsize to someplace with a lower cost of living. Being house poor is soul crushing.[/quote]
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