Actually the tax breaks may not be that much if housing costs are low in your area. Last year I couldn't itemize enough to beat the standard deduction even with the mortgage interest deduction.
I'm so evil and... skanky. And I think I'm kinda gay.
Willow ,'Storyteller'
Spike's Bitches 22: You've got Angel breath
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Gudanov - Feb 15, 2005 9:19:21 am PST #1194 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Topic!Cindy - Feb 15, 2005 9:20:25 am PST #1195 of 10001
What is even happening?
Susan, WOO HOO!
Poor Cindy! How's that nose feeling?Still a little sore, but not nearly as bad as it was. Chris and I just read a book. I can't get over his reading. It's really something.
How's that paper feeling, vw?
-t - Feb 15, 2005 9:23:16 am PST #1196 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Hm. My friends that bought a place for $80k were impressed with their tax deduction. It's mostly based on interest paid, which is a large percentage of teh early mortgage payments, right?
This is what I've been doing since we realized we'd have to move, talking myself in and out of buying.
You let him have a book, Cindy? You're very brave.
Betsy HP - Feb 15, 2005 9:37:11 am PST #1197 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
vw bug - Feb 15, 2005 9:39:16 am PST #1198 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
How's that paper feeling, vw?
The paper is lying untouched while I work on my poems that are due tomorrow. And there goes the beeper to go switch the laundry. Craziness today, I tell you!
Paper will be getting touched soon. I need to take a break from this depressing poem I just wrote.
Lyra Jane - Feb 15, 2005 10:00:22 am PST #1199 of 10001
Up with the sun
Woo-Hoo to Susan!
I kind of want to buy a house for the investment value and la la. Of course, that will mean saying we really definitely for sure are staying in northern Virginia. (Which we probably ARE, but sometimes I look at job listings and get itchy feet.) And then there's the fact that there are a)houses we can afford and b)houses that are in neighborhoods we want to live in, and a and b don't so much overlap. (We could probably buy a condo, but I do not see the point of paying $300K for property that doesn't come with a yard or a basement.)
But all of our relatives and property-owning friends agree that it is Time For Us to Buy a House, and I'm inclined to think they probably know something.
Anne W. - Feb 15, 2005 10:05:21 am PST #1200 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I really hope my house sells quickly. I am terrified of what the inspector will find. Probably all the stuff that he should have found when I bought the place.
DavidS - Feb 15, 2005 10:06:31 am PST #1201 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hey Susan, you were a big Lois and Clark fan right? Looks like they're finally coming out on DVD.
eta: Huh. Or is that old news?
WindSparrow - Feb 15, 2005 10:12:43 am PST #1202 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Skippity-skip-skip-skipping 500+ posts like the spike... oopsie, skipping thing that I am.
Hi, P-C.
Much ~ma all around.
Yay on paying off student-loans, Susan. Therapist impressed that though I am terrified by being accepted to the local dietetics tech. program, I was not paralyzed by my fear. I have ... can I hear a Woo! ... done my federal taxes, and applied for a PIN so I can do the FAFSA online. Lemmee hear a Hoo! while we are at it.
Committing to school and of necessity, student loans, is scarier to me than marriage and babies. Of course, that may be because one is an actual threat to my way of life, and the other is vastly theoretical at the moment.
WindSparrow - Feb 15, 2005 10:14:12 am PST #1203 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
OH, damn, I have to get ready for work now.