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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hispanic are buying houses in DMV their their landscaping or maid income.  Many of them own houses in Rockville, SS, Gaithurberg.  20-30 years from now,, the value of their houses will double$ or triple.[/quote]
Do they pay taxes on their income or they work under the table?[/quote]

I don't know (not that pp) but the hispanic families who own in my neighborhood usually have several adults living in the house and they all park their work trucks on the street. I mean, there is enough room and they don't cause any issues yet. Seems like adult kids and other adult relatives live with them and they all pool together to afford the house.

My white relatives did this during the great depression. Had three generations living together: grandparents, three uncles, and one aunt, her dh and kids. Same kind of thing. [/quote]

+1  Our white immigrant family was the same.  Three generations with multiple families in a typical brick four-square house.  They were out of bedrooms so one person slept on the davenport in the front parlor and the second slept on the davenport in the side parlor.  Three kids slept on the sleeping porch, which sounds lovely until you realize it was the midwest and that meant in subzero temps they were outside during the winter.  They lived in an ethnic enclave in their town and their house was not the only house with that set up.  One of my uncles said it was hard to know if they were hated more because of their religion, their ethnicity and country of origin or the fact that they had so many people shoved into the one house.

Look at the posts here.  People mock and talk about "the Hispanics" but that was my family in the 1930s.  They came here with the shirts on their backs to escape Hitler so bite me if you have a problem with it.

I won't get in anyone's face if their doing the same thing that my family did and I applaud them for their ingenuity.  Seems like more "Americans" should be doing the same thing.  If they did, like young families living with their parents or combining households, then savings would be increased and homeownership -would- be possible.  A lot of people are foiled by their own petards because they want the HGTV house but they're not willing to sacrifice for it by taking some hard steps early on in order to reap the benefits later.[/quote]

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