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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I think some time away from this board might serve you well. This board can make people feel like failures if they can't afford a beautiful SFH in Bethesda or Chevy Chase. The truth is, most people can't. There are tons of people in a similar situation as you (including me) who are extremely frustrated right now by how dramatically housing prices have increased in the past few years as they were saving to buy for the first time or trade up. The only thing you can really do is figure out a path forward and try to stop thinking about what could have been. I am not that great at it myself, but I have reached a point of some peace with the situation and how to proceed moving forward. I can't say I don't think about what could have been, but I try not to obsess over it.[/quote]

Thanks. I guess it’s hard because nearly everyone of my peers has what I always wanted and it’s constantly shoved in my and my kids’ faces and I feel like I have failed. I did fail.[/quote]

Are you a real person?  You failed because you don't own a $1.5M house in Bethesda?  And how exactly is it shoved in your face?  By the mere existence of your peers?  [/quote]

OP is a troll. The world she describes doesn’t exist. If OP were real she’d buy a house she can afford like every other homebuyer. [/quote]

DP. I think everyone responding to OP like this a troll and a sociopath. So many posters on DCUM want houses of the same cost as what OP wants. They are desperate for them. They complain they are having a "freak out" over low inventory..OP is a person who saved for a long time for something she wants, and now can't have it. So many of us have been there. It's a horrible feeling. For us it was a house in a neighborhood where you could get a livable SFH for $500k in 2019. Same model house in worse condition worse lot, went for over $600k in 2021. We felt awful. We did end up compromising and getting a townhouse. We're very happy with our home now.

When close friends with more money had rough experiences  2022 to find their $900k and $2 million homes, did I say "stop complaining, you are so privileged, you can't possibly be real"? No, because I'm not a sociopath and am capable of empathy.

OP, just ignore these fools. They cannot possibly be real people.[/quote]

OP is a single mom who says she could have afforded a $1.7M home by herself with 3% interest rates. The monthly payment for a house that expensive, even back then, was probably around $8,000-$10,000 a month. So OP is probably making around $300,000 or more to even think of that purchase.

So, to you, people are sociopaths because they’re a little taken aback that a rich lady, by any standard, is complaining that she can’t afford a $1.7M house anymore. Are you trolling as well? You don’t see the hubris it takes to fish for empathy from strangers when you’re such an incredibly privileged person because you can’t afford a $1.7M house anymore BY YOURSELF?!

Here’s a charming colonial in Bethesda for less than $900,000 with what appears to be a Wolf range. Maybe OP can “settle” and get a house like this, which is a nicer home than an overwhelming majority of people in this area can even think of affording with a partner, let alone by themselves, in an outstanding school district.

https://www.redfin.com/MD/Bethesda/5906-Roosevelt-St-20817/home/10662235

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Wow, that’s a great house! And affordable for OP![/quote]

Ummm. It is in MD..not VA.[/quote]

Did OP say she had to be in VA?  She never told us where she was looking. Or her actual budget. Hard to give useful recommendations.[/quote]

I would assume the person you're replying to is OP, given I don't believe VA was mentioned until now. [/quote]

I think many of these OP defenders are actually OP.. [/quote]

No. OP is not the only frustrated buyer.  And some of you are suck jerks that you need to be addressed. [/quote]
+1 amen [/quote]

agree - I posted in support of OP because we are also trying to buy and it sucks.[/quote]

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