BREAKING: U.S. Senate Overwhelmingly PASSES Landmark Housing Affordability Bill!
(wltreport.com)
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I was looking but never could. It was too expensive.
You are not alone fren. I had to wait for the property bubble crash before I was able to comfortably purchase. I managed to get into a decent home for less than I was paying for rent on a comparable home. My property has quadrupled in value since then. It's not real value. It's artificially inflated value driven by market speculation. As a retiree, the increases in property taxes and insurance really bite.
It is a dream that probably will never happen, sad but true. 😔
I didn't think so either at one time. It seemed so far out of my reach and I refuse to live my life for a mortgage. I know others that did. Mostly being pushed by friends and family to take on a burden that left no room. When the market crashed, they all lost their homes when one of them lost a job, or when something else unexpected happened.
People were pushing me as well, but I said no. It's not that I couldn't, I just didn't want to. It didn't make sense. I figured it would be in God's timing, not mime. So, I waited till a better time and it happened.
I have been around long enough to have seen these bubbles grow and then burst. I don't doubt we may have another. When? That I can't say. But they usually do come. The market is overinflated. There needs to be a correction.
With me, I knew a crash was coming when brokers and people intimately connected to the housing market were selling off their properties and renting a small house. They knew something was coming. They got out while encouraging others, usually young naive couples, to jump in. I actually confronted a broker one day about it. I asked him, "How do you sleep with yourself at night? Knowing the bottom is going to fall out of this and yet you are advising people to buy. You know full well they will be left holding the bag." What a bastard.
At the time, I figured it would be a couple of years from then. I was wrong. It happened the following year. What my house is worth now is what it was selling for at the height of the market before it all collapsed. I stepped in and got it for 1/4 the price. So don't give up hope friend. Nothing ever stays the same. Just continue on and prepare to buy the dip.
Thank you for your words, you are an angel. I am a single woman with disabilities and live in my sister’s house, a substitute teacher job and on top of that the Harrington Rod I have in my back I believe it is having its toll. I am in pain and I don’t know if it going to be very bad. I am a little afraid because I know no doctor will perform any surgery to remove it, but it was God’s plan and I am not mad about it at all. He wants his children with him, I hope that God forgives me for all my sins and gives me the chance to go to heaven someday. God bless you