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“Homeownership” is retarded unless you want to stay in house forever

Just do pay shit loads of interest for 7 years, sell and the...
Rambunctious amethyst athletic conference
  04/29/24
youre building equity bro
zippy national
  04/29/24
First 7 years are massively weighted towards interest paymen...
Rambunctious amethyst athletic conference
  04/29/24
House prices do and will go up forever. Borrowing to buy a ...
Free-loading Concupiscible Senate
  04/29/24
This is laughably wrong. House prices generally track inflat...
dun indian lodge cuckoldry
  04/29/24
Home prices double every 5-7 years
Free-loading Concupiscible Senate
  04/29/24
I have a friend who bought his house in 1992 for $250,000. T...
dun indian lodge cuckoldry
  04/29/24
Wrong. How could a gut renovation be less than half of the ...
Free-loading Concupiscible Senate
  04/29/24
32 years is a long time. He told me they spent over $150k on...
dun indian lodge cuckoldry
  04/29/24
I own 3 properties. I wasn't a retard so I bought ones that ...
Sable embarrassed to the bone partner
  04/29/24
I find this impossible to believe. Every house is a nightmar...
dun indian lodge cuckoldry
  04/29/24
I'm being pretty misleading. They're all apartments in a Tie...
Sable embarrassed to the bone partner
  04/29/24
Here is where you can be very wrong. My wife and I bought a ...
electric citrine heaven
  04/29/24
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Wine principal's office
  04/29/24
sweet
Talented Confused Degenerate
  04/29/24
I think you meant SWeet
electric citrine heaven
  04/30/24
I rent out three of my former primary residences. Extremely ...
Sable embarrassed to the bone partner
  04/29/24
Owning real property and participating in the game of Amerik...
dun indian lodge cuckoldry
  04/29/24
What you're supposed to do is model all of these expenses in...
Sable embarrassed to the bone partner
  04/29/24
I can kind of pay my bills Insurance is a complete runaway ...
dun indian lodge cuckoldry
  04/29/24
I have you beat on childcare. I'm at over $100k / year. (10...
Sable embarrassed to the bone partner
  04/29/24
It's true, you should never sellcuck. If you need a bigger ...
honey-headed corn cake
  04/29/24
I’ve come to accept that there is no rational option i...
Flesh high-end stead dragon
  04/29/24
...
greedy quadroon locus
  04/29/24
Just raise a family in an apartment complex full of governme...
bateful effete ladyboy dilemma
  04/29/24
this. homeownership is retarded, but not as retarded as rent...
offensive nudist chapel
  04/29/24
...
deranged filthy brunch boltzmann
  04/29/24
here in Brussels, I can't wait to return to my homeland and ...
Soggy walnut institution laser beams
  04/29/24
Ligonier Valley?
dun indian lodge cuckoldry
  04/29/24
yessir, 6 acres to build my falling water house near Linn R...
Soggy walnut institution laser beams
  04/29/24
Wow. 180. I’d like to live over there too.
dun indian lodge cuckoldry
  04/29/24
let's make it happen- Frank Lloyd Wright inspired Americana
Soggy walnut institution laser beams
  04/29/24
I’d just prefer a simple ranch style house with a base...
dun indian lodge cuckoldry
  04/29/24
ranch style house-- u should build in Arizona https://fran...
Soggy walnut institution laser beams
  04/29/24
I don’t want some artsy fartsy house. I want a house w...
dun indian lodge cuckoldry
  04/29/24
if u can dream it, it can happen-- only in America
Soggy walnut institution laser beams
  04/29/24
My dream is to just go back in time and be an offshore rough...
dun indian lodge cuckoldry
  04/29/24
hey, Jack Kerouac
Soggy walnut institution laser beams
  04/29/24
your dream is for your children to never have been born? yo...
Gold provocative spot rigpig
  04/30/24
Ok but will buying a house get me in house in the first plac...
boyish bonkers black woman
  04/29/24
if you bought a million dollar home 5 years ago it would be ...
Fluffy sienna kitty
  04/29/24
Houses around here have crashed 20-30% in the last year.
dun indian lodge cuckoldry
  04/29/24
wow Houston, TX, must be a real shithole then
Angry judgmental personal credit line rehab
  04/29/24
If you put 1 million in wingstop stock you’d have 4 mi...
motley kitchen yarmulke
  04/29/24
I bought in very late 2021 at what was near peak of the mark...
Flesh high-end stead dragon
  04/29/24
People railing against home ownership are fucking idiots who...
Claret Pistol
  04/29/24
(Prole who bought house with 50k down payment)
Rambunctious amethyst athletic conference
  04/29/24
Rates were 3% why put more down?
Claret Pistol
  04/29/24
The house isn't the problem. It's the wife who wants you to ...
aqua really tough guy stage
  04/29/24
Pro tip: in that case, you're the problem
yellow razzle-dazzle station rigor
  04/30/24
"we need to pay $8,000 to convert a small part of our u...
aqua really tough guy stage
  04/30/24
I paid $6000 this week to have landscaping and plumbing work...
Gold provocative spot rigpig
  04/30/24
These retards also don’t look at taxes. You get an exe...
irradiated seedy den
  04/29/24
My interest rate is under 3%. Money for free.
fragrant blue stag film gaming laptop
  04/29/24
"owning a house only makes sense if you want to live in...
Adventurous reading party
  04/30/24
Absolutely devastating for housemos
yellow razzle-dazzle station rigor
  04/30/24


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Date: April 29th, 2024 7:27 PM
Author: Rambunctious amethyst athletic conference

Just do pay shit loads of interest for 7 years, sell and then do it again at another house lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619708)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 7:28 PM
Author: zippy national

youre building equity bro

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619712)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 7:29 PM
Author: Rambunctious amethyst athletic conference

First 7 years are massively weighted towards interest payments. You build almost no equity unless house price only go up forever

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619714)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 7:38 PM
Author: Free-loading Concupiscible Senate

House prices do and will go up forever. Borrowing to buy a house is the single best thing most people can do to build wealth. Buy as much as you can, always.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619742)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 7:59 PM
Author: dun indian lodge cuckoldry

This is laughably wrong. House prices generally track inflation. Plenty of years where the house is flat and inflation is 2%.

Homes are just sinks for taxes, insurance, maintenance, HOAs, worthless utilities, never ending bullshit, break ins, squatters, noisy neighbors, nosy neighbors, illegal neighbors. It’s just a neverending river of shit these single family homes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619815)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 8:02 PM
Author: Free-loading Concupiscible Senate

Home prices double every 5-7 years

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619825)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 8:07 PM
Author: dun indian lodge cuckoldry

I have a friend who bought his house in 1992 for $250,000. Today he could sell for $1,000,000. BUT, the entire house has been gutted to the studs and completely redone at a cost of like $300k. Plus all the other crap they put into it. Conservatively, they have like $700k in it. So their appreciation after 32 years works out to less than $10k per year, and it’s a lot less after you factor for inflation and opportunity cost.

Houses don’t appreciate. They just cost you a fortune. They literally empty your pockets.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619836)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 8:09 PM
Author: Free-loading Concupiscible Senate

Wrong. How could a gut renovation be less than half of the amount invested in the house after purchase? Obviously couldn't. How would you even know any of this? Do better with your shitty flame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619842)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 8:15 PM
Author: dun indian lodge cuckoldry

32 years is a long time. He told me they spent over $150k on an addition. Gut Reno came later at a cost of $300k. That’s $450k for the two big Renos plus $250k purchase which sums to $700k basis (and I think they did things like sprinklers, various upgrades, new Siding, new driveway, new windows, landscaping too).

$1m - $700k = $300k

After accounting for inflation it’s probably less than $200k. Over 32 years. It’s completely trivial appreciation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619867)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 8:10 PM
Author: Sable embarrassed to the bone partner

I own 3 properties. I wasn't a retard so I bought ones that didn't require any work.

Between all three, I've spent maybe $10k total over ~10+ years, at most. Just replaced some carpets, snaked a few drains, and replaces a few appliances.

You may not know this, but you're allowed to inspect a property before you buy it.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619848)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 8:11 PM
Author: dun indian lodge cuckoldry

I find this impossible to believe. Every house is a nightmare and a ticking time bomb.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619850)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 8:13 PM
Author: Sable embarrassed to the bone partner

I'm being pretty misleading. They're all apartments in a Tier 1 city.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619857)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 9:17 PM
Author: electric citrine heaven

Here is where you can be very wrong. My wife and I bought a place in 2018 for $498k at 3.5% interest. We put $200k down. We still owe $255000 on the mortgage, but we put the house on the market this weekend (it listed Thursday) for $975,000 and we got over 25 offers with the highest being $1,050,000.

After commissions, costs and paying off the mortgage, we will walk with $753,000. Which means, we profited $553,000 in less than 5.5 years: $100,000 a year. We're moving to SC and our newly built home is coming in right at $722,000. So, we'll have no mortgage. Now, obviously this isn't going to happen for everyone, but it did just happen for us. And that's why you buy houses.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47620037)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 9:49 PM
Author: Wine principal's office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47620140)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 10:26 PM
Author: Talented Confused Degenerate

sweet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47620229)



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Date: April 30th, 2024 5:16 PM
Author: electric citrine heaven

I think you meant SWeet

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47622398)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 7:30 PM
Author: Sable embarrassed to the bone partner

I rent out three of my former primary residences. Extremely good financial move (in my case at least).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619715)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 7:34 PM
Author: dun indian lodge cuckoldry

Owning real property and participating in the game of Amerikkka is flat out highway robbery.

Taxes + Interest + HOA + Insurance + cost of upkeep on my house is about $45k

Insurance on the cars is now up to $3k (and I ostensibly own them) + another $1k in various fees for maintenance, registration, inspection

That’s $4,000 gone each month just for the right to “own” property in America

Utilities + food + transport costs like fuel, etc doesn’t come close to $4k

Childcare comes close

If I sold everything and just moved to Asia I could live on so much less

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619735)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 7:35 PM
Author: Sable embarrassed to the bone partner

What you're supposed to do is model all of these expenses in advance and only purchase a home you can comfortably afford.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619738)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 7:39 PM
Author: dun indian lodge cuckoldry

I can kind of pay my bills

Insurance is a complete runaway freight train right now. 4 years ago insurance for 2 cars was like $1200/yr. Maybe as little as $1,000. Now 3x.

My first homeowners policy was like $1800, now $6000.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619744)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 7:36 PM
Author: Sable embarrassed to the bone partner

I have you beat on childcare. I'm at over $100k / year. (100% cannot afford it -- unlike my house)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619740)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 7:42 PM
Author: honey-headed corn cake

It's true, you should never sellcuck. If you need a bigger house, just remodel the old one, or keep it and rent it out.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619752)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 7:44 PM
Author: Flesh high-end stead dragon

I’ve come to accept that there is no rational option in the US, everything is set up to ensure your Ruin, especially if you are a Loser. I wish I was born in France and could just live on the dole and waste away at some cafe. That would be 1000% better than trying to “maek it” in the US just so you don’t have to live in a neighborhood where you’ll be raped and killed by URMs. The US is honestly the dumbest place in the world and a terrible mistake.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619761)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 7:46 PM
Author: greedy quadroon locus



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619769)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 7:46 PM
Author: bateful effete ladyboy dilemma

Just raise a family in an apartment complex full of government mandated low income residents bro

Just have your lease not get renewed at the top of the market so you are forced to move bro

Just have your rent go up 10%+ per year bro

Just never be allowed to have pets bro

Just be forced to live with the shittiest appliances in existence and never able to renovate or change anything forever bro

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619767)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 8:01 PM
Author: offensive nudist chapel

this. homeownership is retarded, but not as retarded as renting forever.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619822)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 8:26 PM
Author: deranged filthy brunch boltzmann



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619904)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 8:07 PM
Author: Soggy walnut institution laser beams

here in Brussels, I can't wait to return to my homeland and buy a plat in rural PA and play my music as loud as I like without any neighbors around to complain

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619835)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 8:12 PM
Author: dun indian lodge cuckoldry

Ligonier Valley?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619853)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 8:14 PM
Author: Soggy walnut institution laser beams

yessir, 6 acres to build my falling water house near Linn Run State Park

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619864)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 8:16 PM
Author: dun indian lodge cuckoldry

Wow. 180.

I’d like to live over there too.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619874)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 8:18 PM
Author: Soggy walnut institution laser beams

let's make it happen- Frank Lloyd Wright inspired Americana

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619878)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 8:19 PM
Author: dun indian lodge cuckoldry

I’d just prefer a simple ranch style house with a basement and a wood burning stove and a flat spot outside for a garden.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619881)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 8:20 PM
Author: Soggy walnut institution laser beams

ranch style house-- u should build in Arizona

https://franklloydwright.org/taliesin-west/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619885)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 8:24 PM
Author: dun indian lodge cuckoldry

I don’t want some artsy fartsy house. I want a house with a porch and a rocker and my shotgun by my side. Maybe a glass of iced tea.

No dogs. No cats. Just me and the world.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619899)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 8:25 PM
Author: Soggy walnut institution laser beams

if u can dream it, it can happen-- only in America

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619900)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 8:28 PM
Author: dun indian lodge cuckoldry

My dream is to just go back in time and be an offshore roughneck or whatever. Live in a van.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619912)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 8:29 PM
Author: Soggy walnut institution laser beams

hey, Jack Kerouac

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619914)



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Date: April 30th, 2024 3:13 PM
Author: Gold provocative spot rigpig

your dream is for your children to never have been born? you seem like a really really great guy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47621931)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 8:18 PM
Author: boyish bonkers black woman

Ok but will buying a house get me in house in the first place? Have sent out hundreds of apps (I’m a litigator) but no bites so far. Houses around here run about 1.5-2 million to start but it could be a good investment to finally get out of big law.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619879)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 8:20 PM
Author: Fluffy sienna kitty

if you bought a million dollar home 5 years ago it would be $1.5m today

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619886)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 8:25 PM
Author: dun indian lodge cuckoldry

Houses around here have crashed 20-30% in the last year.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619902)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 9:04 PM
Author: Angry judgmental personal credit line rehab

wow Houston, TX, must be a real shithole then

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619997)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 8:47 PM
Author: motley kitchen yarmulke

If you put 1 million in wingstop stock you’d have 4 million today

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619940)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 8:33 PM
Author: Flesh high-end stead dragon

I bought in very late 2021 at what was near peak of the market. 3.25% rate. I already have 100k in added “equity” according to estimates. If I didn’t buy this house I would still be renting in NYC for like 4000k per month. I don’t know if there was ever a good option for me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47619919)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 9:48 PM
Author: Claret Pistol

People railing against home ownership are fucking idiots who:

(i) Are too dumb to ever account for the fact that a home is not just an investment, its consumption. So in your calculations, you have to back out what you would have paid for rent

(ii) Don't realize that a home is an amazing tool against inflation, which is why myself and many others have benefited BIGLY.

I put in about $50,000 on my house in 2019, I've saved about $70,000 in rent over those years vs my mortgage, and if I sold my house I'd net $320,000.

So all in I basically made like a 7,000% return in 5 years?

The math is obviously different with current prices and interest rates (renting vs buying is more attractive for sure), but there's still a lot of risk in renting...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47620139)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 9:52 PM
Author: Rambunctious amethyst athletic conference

(Prole who bought house with 50k down payment)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47620155)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 9:55 PM
Author: Claret Pistol

Rates were 3% why put more down?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47620160)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 10:32 PM
Author: aqua really tough guy stage

The house isn't the problem. It's the wife who wants you to work super hard so she can pay other men to do little projects at your house in perpetuity.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47620250)



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Date: April 30th, 2024 1:22 PM
Author: yellow razzle-dazzle station rigor

Pro tip: in that case, you're the problem

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47621548)



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Date: April 30th, 2024 1:45 PM
Author: aqua really tough guy stage

"we need to pay $8,000 to convert a small part of our unfinished basement into a costco pantry."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47621654)



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Date: April 30th, 2024 3:28 PM
Author: Gold provocative spot rigpig

I paid $6000 this week to have landscaping and plumbing work done. all of it except for taking out a tree I probably could have done myself if I had more time and energy and wasn't a retard.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47622009)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 10:40 PM
Author: irradiated seedy den

These retards also don’t look at taxes. You get an exemption for $500K in capital gains, which equates to $1MM of earned income. You should move anytime you can do this obviously (subject to being able to purchase a decent home for an acceptable price).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47620296)



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Date: April 29th, 2024 10:55 PM
Author: fragrant blue stag film gaming laptop

My interest rate is under 3%. Money for free.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47620330)



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Date: April 30th, 2024 10:42 AM
Author: Adventurous reading party

"owning a house only makes sense if you want to live in that house"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47621078)



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Date: April 30th, 2024 1:23 PM
Author: yellow razzle-dazzle station rigor

Absolutely devastating for housemos

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5522879&forum_id=2/#47621553)