re: The age of the median home buyer in 07 was born in 1968, in 2024 it is still 1968.

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If median was 32, then obviously a huge percentage of people were a lot younger than that.

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I get it but there is also a huge percentage older.

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So yes a 35 year old engineer (or insert whatever profession) struggling and waiting to buy that long is a big deal and not a good trend.

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again, in this hypothetical, I would need to know how this person spent and saved since he got out of college...but the bottom line is that if he had a bunch of debt, he would probably skew to the above 32 crowd...but again, depends on his net income since graduation and his spending and saving habits...

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again, in this hypothetical, I would need to know how this person spent and saved since he got out of college...but the bottom line is that if he had a bunch of debt, he would probably skew to the above 32 crowd...but again, depends on his net income since graduation and his spending and saving habits...

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Dude just shut the hell up. Anybody with a working brain and a bit of self honestly knows it is tougher to buy a home for everyone these days. But you want to cherry pick every little piece of data to try and muddy the waters of the conversation. It’s a common tactic of narcissists who don’t want to address an issue.

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again, in this hypothetical, I would need to know how this person spent and saved since he got out of college...but the bottom line is that if he had a bunch of debt, he would probably skew to the above 32 crowd...but again, depends on his net income since graduation and his spending and saving habits...

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If you have to dig this deep into a hypothetical, you’ve lost.

Got my first house at 26. 225K with a 5% or so interest. Took advantage of a down payment assistance program. Want to say it was about 1200 sqft. 1/3 acre corner lot. 2 bed 2 bath. Only made like 65K a year.

Sold that three later for a couple thousand profit.

Rented in rural Alaska for about 3 years, but had discounted housing because of my job.

Bought my second house at 32. 300K 5 bed 3 bath on 3.5 acres in coastal mississippi. Put 5% down. Got a good interest rate around 3.5%. Was making about 100K/year then.

It's definitely doable, but it sure as shite was difficult. Got lucky with a very small inheritance that helped pay off student loans and a car loan. Idk if we would have been able to do it without it. Although you make more money in rural Alaska it's stupid expensive out there

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You’re missing his point entirely.

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He’s doing it on purpose. Again, it’s narcissistic behavior to muddy the water and not address the issue.

Spending habits, debt, etc. of course it’s important. But the crux of the conversation is an apples to apples comparison of how much easier it was for young adults to acquire a house decades ago versus how it is now.

But somebody who likes to muddy the water (intentionally) will be like “yeah well the previous generations didnt have all of this college debt!” As if that somehow makes their point. When really their college tuition was pennies compared to now so of course they didnt have the same debt. It just makes the point even more of how things suck today. But boomers just think they are fricking geniuses because they somehow didnt have to have all of that debt It’s really a joke watching how their minds/ego works.

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To be fair to the young men

Over half the woman their age are gay and hate men because it’s cool


The average girl in your time now gets attention from across the globe on social media


The lost their social skills because they were locked away for covid


The current society has seen them as evil since they were born and has done everything to bring them down to uplift girls

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Self Victimization is deep, go listen to more Red Pills podcasts

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The boomers in this tread bitching, telling the younger generations to work harder

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Boomers, as a whole, are just in denial of how big a greedy piece of shite generation they are. They don’t want to believe it, because who wants to believe youre a P.O.S? So they like to pretend that young folks today have the same opportunities they had, this kids are just lazier, dumber, blah blah blah.

History won’t look kindly on the boomer generation. They know that and it’s too late to change now (not that they ever would). So they might as well double down and keep enjoying all of the additional wealth/opportunities they were born into.

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quote:1. find a group of girls 2. wait until at least 60% of them are married, around 26-29 3. pick one of the single ones all you have to do is have a decent job and not be a complete fat. Seen that work out for many dudes Nobody wants the chicks in group 3.

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If there was a Venn diagram of incels and people who claim homeownership is unattainable you would only need one circle.
Back when I was in my twenties, most of the single baws buying houses took in roommates to offset the mortgage. People overextended themselves to buy a house, but filling the house with rent paying tenants made it profitable in the long run.

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And then I bought a 15 yr old 1400 sq ft piece of shite starter home in the cheapest area of a large development 15 miles outside the loop in Houston.

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What did it cost you? Just curious.