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re: In the market for a house...

Posted by jlovel7 on 5/9/24 at 12:18 pm
[quote]What your parents could afford is not the same as you. Welcome to the real world[/quote] Their house cost 200k in 1992. That's about 450k now. So almost in that ballpark....

re: In the market for a house...

Posted by jlovel7 on 5/8/24 at 3:15 pm
[quote]The consensus in this thread is that the upper limit is probably around [b]$350k[/b].[/quote] Helpful, but also on brand and hilarious....

re: In the market for a house...

Posted by jlovel7 on 5/8/24 at 3:10 pm
[quote]So really you can barely afford your lifestyle, not your mortgage.[/quote] What lifestyle? Our fixed monthly costs for amenities are like $400 (utilities, netflix, etc..), food is around $600 between the 2 of us. Most of our money goes to savings/investments. We don't have loans or a car...

re: In the market for a house...

Posted by jlovel7 on 5/8/24 at 3:07 pm
[quote]Fine. Then this poster can't afford to live there or they need to find something below the median. You can't have champagne taste on a beer budget, and then flip about the high cost of living in an area. I would keel over with a house note that big. And I'm sorry, but a $500k house is real...

re: In the market for a house...

Posted by jlovel7 on 5/8/24 at 9:48 am
[quote]Total household income is $160k quote: lose to $3500-$4000 a month Fast forward a few years. Cars are wearing out. House needs work. A kid shows up and the wife wants to take time off work. Daycare. Someone has a medical issue. You can't afford it.[/quote] My thoughts as well. S...

re: In the market for a house...

Posted by jlovel7 on 5/8/24 at 9:47 am
[quote]That sucks. Home ownership has a lot of costs, in time and money, over and above the P&I and escrows. Do you have to do yardwork or maintenance on the townhome?[/quote] We mow the lawn. That's about it....

re: In the market for a house...

Posted by jlovel7 on 5/8/24 at 9:44 am
[quote]greatly overestimating how much home you can afford JMHO.[/quote] What's crazy is there's barely anything below 300k in our area unless its below 1000SF. And we don't even live in a big city. We live in a city of less than 30k people in rural Virginia. We're 90 minutes from DC whic...

In the market for a house...

Posted by jlovel7 on 5/8/24 at 9:38 am
Just got married and now the next big step is looking for a house. Total household income is $160k. Looking at things below 500k in our area. That gets us about 1500-2000 square feet with a decent yard and usually an unfinished basement. We don't have any debt or car payments but obviously that ...
Wasn’t this park recently updated?...
Should read the NBA plans to fork over an extra $50M...
And Tigerdroppings will answer!...

re: John Adam’s first watch

Posted by jlovel7 on 5/3/24 at 12:37 pm
Most historically inaccurate part is that John Adams wasn’t actually a real person. Most founding fathers were an early government conspiracy to cover up all the work women did during the revolution to found our country. Just read a great article about this on The Root last week. I had no idea. ...
It caught all of those actors at the perfect time. MM and RDJ before their renaissances, Cruise before MI had its back end renaissance and that’s all he started doing going forward. Plus Jack Black and Ben Stiller when they were both still A list comedy stars (not that they aren’t, but I can barely ...

re: Remember the Titans

Posted by jlovel7 on 5/2/24 at 12:54 pm
One big thing is Alexandria has been an urban city since the 1700s. They made it seem like it was in a very rural part of the state. ...

re: Aaron Judge is 32 this Friday

Posted by jlovel7 on 4/23/24 at 8:16 am
When’s the last big long term baseball contract that works out? I feel like these guys always get these massive deals in their late 20s and then are complete arse for the rest of them into their 30s. ...
Sacrifice a chicken? Why didn’t they just get a family bucket from KFC?...
[quote]Like, a basic four in hand/schoolboy knot? It’s objectively easier than tying your shoes Now tying a fricking bow tie, on the other hand… I have to look it up again every time I put on a tux…[/quote] It’s funny you say this because a bow tie is the exact same knot as your shoes…....
It’s upsetting that we got Tarantino movies in 2012, 2015, 2019, and now we’re coming up on 5 years past 2019 and we don’t even have a script yet. It’ll probably be 7-8 years between his 9th and 10th movies. Although COVID does play a role disrupting things for a few years. ...
[quote]Planning on flying into Nola on Thursday then just taking a bus up to BR Friday Let me give you some free advice. Don’t do this.[/quote] I’ve done this many times. Not a huge deal. Actually chatted up a cute welsh girl one time. I would still advise against it though. Just annoying an...
[quote]Rahm seemed like he had no interest in being at that jacket presentation[/quote] He has to go before the crown prince and explain why he didn’t win. They’ll probably chop his head off for this....