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Phuzi3 t1_j42qgha wrote

House prices have been nuts around here for a long time. I pretty much gave up on buying a house around here around 2001-02…when I was still in high school.

In looking around the north SnoCo, Skagit area, for a 4+ bedroom house (I have 4 kids) on some land, I would be paying around $500k for a ramshackle POS, and $800k for something nice, at minimum. Or, $120k-ish for a mobile.

I make $80k a year, so those higher prices are out my range. Renting is almost out of my range. Yeah, housing costs are crazy across the entire region.

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Capable_Nature_644 t1_j4cmvz0 wrote

80k and you can't pay rent? Seriously... You must be bad with bills because I could manage a 1.5k apartment on a 32k income. Things were tight but doable. Occasionally picked up temp work to get some additional income. Good lord I managed to buy a 350k house with a 200k loan and paid it off in <10 yrs due to working 55 hr work weeks.

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Phuzi3 t1_j4cp63d wrote

Cool.

Where’d you get $150k to put towards that house? Save for it, family help, down payment assistance?

I’m supporting 5 other people on my single income. So yeah, money doesn’t go far, especially nowadays. 4 of them are 5 and under, 3 are still in diapers, so there’s a lot of expenses that aren’t just bills.

No two situations are alike.

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