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    SFC B replied to the thread Home purchase.
    The point was that to own a home (unless you are independently wealthy) you HAVE to make sacrifices....whether that is moving, or taking...
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    SFC B reacted to Nameless Range's post in the thread Home purchase with Like Like.
    Bought a 2.5 acre lot in 2012 for $38,000. Built our 3,600 sq ft house that year for $203,000. Did a lot of the work (wood floors...
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    SFC B reacted to RealMuddyboots's post in the thread Home purchase with Like Like.
    It gets a lot worse on fixed income. Retired 2012, built 2,000 sqft ranch style house on 5 acres with 30x40 pole barn in 2004. It was...
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    SFC B reacted to Treeshark's post in the thread Home purchase with Like Like.
    In fairness though, that example doesn’t include a second income earner either.
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    SFC B reacted to morley.tyler's post in the thread Home purchase with Like Like.
    Exactly!
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    SFC B reacted to Treeshark's post in the thread Home purchase with Like Like.
    I believe it. Crazy part is that Madison is probably the highest cost of living in the entire state.
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    SFC B replied to the thread Home purchase.
    So that is ONE income AND not in anyway a starter home around there.....that is a 2500sf log home on 1.5 acres with a pond. Wages in...
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    SFC B replied to the thread Home purchase.
    THIS is also part of the folks doing the "I will NEVER afford a house" issue.....not everyone can live in the inter-mountain west, on...
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    SFC B reacted to mtmuley's post in the thread Home purchase with Love Love.
    Most of the affordable houses guys are talking about aren't in the West. mtmuley
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    SFC B reacted to Treeshark's post in the thread Home purchase with Love Love.
    Built current house in 2016- we could easily afford it then, we could easily afford it now even though it has roughly doubled in value...
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    SFC B reacted to Steiny77's post in the thread Home purchase with Love Love.
    We've been in the same home for over 35 years and it's been paid for a long time. When we first purchased it was a financial stretch...
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    SFC B reacted to mtmuley's post in the thread Home purchase with Like Like.
    I can't even afford to downsize. mtmuley
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    SFC B reacted to SAJ-99's post in the thread Home purchase with Like Like.
    This is certainly an overgeneralization, but a substantial portion of Gen Y seems to want to "skip the hard part". They don't want to...
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    SFC B replied to the thread Home purchase.
    Could we? Sure, but it would suck. Bought in 2011 and refinanced @2.25 when we had the chance. The big killer out here (COS)is...
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    SFC B reacted to Kimber7man's post in the thread SFC B's yearly folly....... with Like Like.
    10-4. I think we bought the wood beams for our ceilings from a farm in Flora…
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