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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We got significant help when buying our house. Ours will be paid off much sooner than it would have otherwise been, and therefore it will be easier for us to gift our children with a down payment (super hypothetical, kids are elementary aged).

Depending on where the kids eventually live/if they have kids, it might make more tax sense to offer to pay for our grandkids’ private school tuition and give a smaller amount for a downpayment. Again, super hypothetical.

Without help from our parents, we would have chosen a much smaller house and/or not been able to afford private school. Dual physician family, so we are now high earners but spent our 20s and early 30s in medical school/training, so we didn’t have a significant nest egg.

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I actually don't understand the moral of your story.  So, you would have owned a smaller house and your kids would attend public school.  Not exactly the worst outcome either.  Obviously, you likely could easily upgrade both with your dual-physician income, so it's simply a matter of timing.

Would you somehow resent your parents if that had been your trajectory?  [/quote]

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