I'm with Cindy here. Our house was $98,000 and we put $20,000 down (largely from the profit from our first house that was $45,000 and we sold for $67,000 (nice 3 bedroom house, crappy schools and high crime rate)) we have a 15 year loan at 5.75% so our mortgage payment is around $800 . We would probably have to pay about $1000 to have a slightly smaller 3 bedroom apartment without the 1/2 acre yard. Already we have simliar houses in the neighborhood going for $125,000. So we're roughly equal or slightly ahead on rent (taking into account expenses for repairs and such), getting a tax break, getting a yard, two garages, and some extra space. Plus, if we don't sell, we'll own it outright in 12 years.
I've tried to march in the Slayer Pride Parade ...
Joyce ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gudanov - Apr 22, 2005 4:56:28 am PDT #8024 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
tommyrot - Apr 22, 2005 5:00:51 am PDT #8025 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
![[link]](http://zeeb.at/oops/oops2.jpg){kind=link}
![[link]](http://zeeb.at/oops/rubber_02.jpg){kind=link}
Steph L. - Apr 22, 2005 5:05:53 am PDT #8026 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
tommyrot, those links just tell me to not steal his bandwidth.
Gudanov - Apr 22, 2005 5:08:18 am PDT #8027 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
I think there is a cap on server connections. Wait and it will probably work.
§ ita § - Apr 22, 2005 5:10:04 am PDT #8028 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Try copy and pasting into a new browser window.
It may just be default anti-hotlinking practice. Lord knows I'm working out how to best handle that myself (so far I'm defaulting to an image that's yonks and yonks wide, hopefully to mess up the screens of anyone including my pics in their HTML).
tommyrot - Apr 22, 2005 5:10:20 am PDT #8029 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK, I guess you have to go to the main page first: [link]
Then click on "oops2.jpg" and "rubber_02.jpg"
eta: and "AirtranAir.jpg"
§ ita § - Apr 22, 2005 5:10:46 am PDT #8030 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Lookit my cousin! She's all growed up.
sarameg - Apr 22, 2005 5:12:52 am PDT #8031 of 10001
All this and I'm still going to try to wake up early enough to make it to the city's house-hunting assistance office tomorrow. May be completely useless,but worth a shot.
I miss mountains.
tommyrot - Apr 22, 2005 5:16:25 am PDT #8032 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Nutty - Apr 22, 2005 5:16:32 am PDT #8033 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
When I think about a house (actually, a condo, because I will not be able to afford a yard for decades yet), I figure in property taxes as well as the interest when counting up payments. On that assumption, even when I've saved up a 10% down-payment, I would still be paying more than double my current rent in monthly payments.
Now, as these things go, my rent is kinda low. (For one thing, flatmate.) But still -- double? Even if I waited another 3 years and had a 20% down-payment, it would still be close to double. I could go ahead and buy a bigger condo, and have a flatmate, but a bigger condo costs more.
For this reason, I am ardently expecting a crash in the local housing market any minute now. Or, preferably, in 2 years when I have amassed my down-paymetn funds in full.