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  • Ditto.

    Our first house was my late grandparents home. I bought it from my dad for 100k in 2013, which itself was probably ~25k below market.

    We sold it in 2018 for 250k, and bought our current home for 375k.

    Zestimate now for my house is 613k. I could never afford that. I paid what, a net 225k (plus taxes and interest ofc).

    I don’t discount how much luck has played into my current station in life…but damn.

    The downside is…I feel like I’m stuck here now. We refi’d when rates were near their lowest, and any house that would be a sidestep in quality/neighborhood/size costs the same or more, plus higher interest.

    My SIL and her new husband just bought a house and I damn near fainted when I heard what her mortgage is gonna be.

    I was already teetering on the edge when my BIL told me how much rent is for his 1BR apartment (which is also much more than my mortgage on my 4br/1.5ba house).







  • This is what separates the magas from everyone else.

    They see a chart like this (unverified claims that confirm their prejudices), it’s fact because it’s on the internet.

    We see a chart like this and we are instantly skeptical. Even though we know it’s hyperbole, we at least know what hyperbole is, and many of us even know how to say it out loud.



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    Ehhh…it breaks the half-plus-7 rule (I’d call 37 ‘late 30s’)…but it beats 20s. I’m only forty and I can barely relate to my 20-something BILs. I couldn’t imagine dating someone in their 20s, and not just because I’m happily married. The culture gap is so real. I could relate to X so much more than Z.

    Still…even mid-30s doesn’t give much time to plant the seed before you have to worry about the first frost. You gotta sow while the soil is warm. Having your own kid is great and all but maybe look for a divorcee/widow with a toddler…