How in the hell does this guy have a <$1000 mortgage?
Edit: Yeah my bad guys. I forgot the housing market existed before 2020 lmao.
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If he bought more than ten years ago, isn't counting property tax or homeowners insurance, and refinanced at the lowest rates, it's feasible.
You can buy apartments as well
There's also the magic that is living anywhere that isn't a long the coast or a major urban city.
Unfortunately that means you also have to live in a slightly racist suburb in the Midwest lol.
"Slightly"
Just a little bit of racism. Just a touch.
That's what mine is without insurance and taxes.
Originally purchased a house in 2009. By 2015 home prices had increased by 50% when we sold it in 2015. Bought a nicer house for less money in a area with a cheaper cost of living. Used most of the money gained from the sale of the 1st house as a down payment. Refinanced the mortgage when rates were 2.85%.
Current home today is now valued at over $500K. If I had to purchase the home I live in today as a first-time home buyer the mortgage would be around $3,500/month.
All of this price increase is driven by corporate investors and short term rentals due to the years of low interest rates thereby creating an artificial shortage.
Home ownership is the best way for the middle and low income classes to build wealth. Of course the wealthy know this and are actively racing to lock them out of it.
Lives somewhere that has houses that aren't outrageously priced. The national average for housing is insane, but there are still plenty of smaller cities/towns that have cheaper housing. My area averages about $180-300k for decent to relatively nice houses. If they paid a good chunk on their downpayment and bought at low rates, etc.
I bought a house in 2020, and my mortgage was just a bit over $1k. It was a bottom-of-the-barrel house in a bad part of town, though. I sold it and bought a better house last year, and now my mortgage is nearly double what it was, though the interest rate is a big factor in that - if interest had stayed the same, it'd only be about $1.5k. I'd imagine if you bought am average house with a good interest rate over a decade ago, you probably only have $1k mortgage.
I was paying $600 for my 3 bed 2 bath house. My dumbass sold it but the moral of the story is probably older locked rate and price in a less expensive area.
Also he's appears to be working 71.515151 hour weeks.
IDK, I had a ~$1100ish mortgage back in 2007 or so.
Way way way back I learned this lesson. I was young and not making much money so I... briefly... resented my union fees. About six months into the job the union negotiated a 30% pay raise for my classification.
Yeah but no XboX, so like, checkmate.
Marxist propaganda. /s
I was raised in a union household, which seemed to be unusual at the time. Love unions personally they helped both my parents and my sibling. Sibling got a new job near the holidays, union job, and the union gave them a huge basket of holiday food which was cool as hell.
No pizza parties though?