Is $600,000 a sum that lenders actually expect to get paid off? Or is it a number that gets shuttled around to various owners as people move in and out of places?
I think in this day and age, it's usually shuffled around. Of course, if you stay in one place for 30 years, it'll be paid off (assuming a 30 year mortgage). I've heard figures like 7-10 years as the average time a homeowner stays in one place. We've been here for 4, and I'd like to be able to sell and move to a better house in 2-3. I don't have the figures on me for what we'd still owe on the house at that point (right now, we owe about $190k on the thing), just that we should, at that point, have enough between equity and saved money to purchase something in the 300-350k range. Which would still get us a fixer, just a fixer in a better part of town.
"Why can't the Buddha vacuum under his sofa?"
"Because he has no attachments."
It took me YEARS to get the "Make me one with everything" joke. Years.
Me = dumkopf.
Steph doesn't get the Zen jokes and I don't realize songs are about sex until 15+ years later.
This is why we are friends.
I was off Buff-diving like all the cool kids in Natter!
I am feeling old and grumpy. A friend is in town and he was visiting with other friends all day. We were all supposed to go out to dinner tonight. Apparently they got involved with something--knowing them, something with a high alcohol contect--and forgot to call me until now, when they called from the restaurant, all apologetic. It's 8:45 and I'm tired and hungry and not dressed, so I said, "I'll just see you next time." Somehow I feel like I should have risen to the occasion, but pbbbbtt.
Nope, I think you need to take two (alcoholic drinks) and lie down until the urge to be high-minded goes away.
I opened the window and listened to the rain and frogs most of the night - and then birds this morning
Dang, Stephanie has SPRINGTIME. No FAIR!
Brad Pitt's body is unblemished perfection. Sometimes I forget just how pretty he actually is
Even lesbians agree. Or at least, me and Melissa Etheridge.
(re krav:) I really liked it, even though it brought out my shyness
Yeah, something about being told to be superagressive made me...not. Even though normally I'm not shy (though, as seen in the "no I did not email that girl", I can be cowardly. Different.)
I've just discovered that there are easily accessible classes at the DC JCC...so the motivation is high
Beej, they're hella expensive, but pretty cool. I did, though, end up having my first ever asthma attack while trying to keep up with class. So, getting in some kinda shape first might be a good idea, even if it isn't strictly necessary--they SAY you can adapt it as you need and take it at your own pace, but when they're screaming at you and you're trying to keep up and wanting to be part of the class...well...
Hmm. I think perhaps I am the interesting person in my family right now...my sister had it for awhile with the drama of the fiance and wedding, but...
I'm going to go cuddle my smallish, 15 year fixed rate (5.5%) mortgage
Much as I love DC, one of the reasons I think I'll eventually ahve to move is I can't fathom being able to afford a mortagage here. Even if I someday had a girlfriend to buy a place WITH. Hmph.
Another reason to love the work of the Reverend Al Green, it makes my brother remember an elsewhere to be.
That fills me with the Spirit, too.
