How can the average American afford a down payment on house?

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Do people understand that if they are using their retirement assets to buy into an asset that won't appreciate that is a bad decision.

If you can't afford to buy don't buy until you can.

Shortcuts effect ur long term in ways you WOULDNT believe...

Things take time. Keep on a path. Set goals but don't take shortcuts
WTF are you talking about?
 

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Taking out a loan to fund another loan is smart to you? Any expert that's not trying to sell you a house will tell you to avoid taking out a loan on your pension at all cost.
You are using your money and paying yourself back with interest and it’s all payroll deducted

I thought you were looking for information when you started this thread. You’re a dumbass
 

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Lot of our gen and younger is going to have to do a couple things if they can. Use generational wealth and live with fam. This wasn't uncommon at all before the baby boomers and still fairly common in many cultures, to have multi-generational households. Or have tenants in common. In a lot of places you're actually better off throwing down money on a home with people and instead of paying rent. Divvying up mortgage payments applied to the home and portioning out ownership. Now some people will balk at this because it's one thing to deal with a roomie and a lease, a house/mortgage payments can go wrong fast even solo but it's something older millennials who are tired of renting but want to stay in their region might have to compromise and do.
 

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Everyting is true, but white people aint having kids anymore. That's why they have large amounts of disposable income, on top of inherited wealth. No kids AND high paying jobs =legit play time out the ass.

I think thats a cop out,most of these white people work the same kind of jobs as many of us do. But we don't inherit the mentality of thinking about our financial futures as yet. That has to get encoded into us so that we are passing that down AUTOMATICALLY,and it's a big deal in our kids minds. These our things that happen over time as we educate ourselves through generations. If we are going to reluctantly play this european paper game we need to start instilling the knowledge and I think we are. I don't have numbers,but It does feel like young black people are thinking about home ownership much younger than what I remember. The thought of it is great,but I think along with that you have people doing it because they think you are supposed to,and rush into it. And along with that people having an idea of what kind of home they are supposed to have which is not realistic and whats best for their financial status. I know many relatively young home owners personally,and just through conversation and I would say about 75% of them are or were struggling,before they eventually gave their homes up. Are all these people I know and have met just rare cases? I doubt it. And while we know the banks was on bullshyt,some of them just flat out took out ammounts where it would have been nice if they could have seen themselves that was too tight for their income,and hourly job status. You can afford to still have a kid,and have plenty of play time with two incomes in the house without jobs that are that high paying.

Plus there is still no excuse,because you could sacrifice according to your situation,and have legit play time out the ass. But many of us if I need to say that specefically,don't like to do that either. I think theres a plan for just about everybodys level,it just takes sitting down and talking money and sacrifice. Theres plenty of play time talk,just check your instagrams and facebooks:francis:
 

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0% down. No closing cost. Amongst the best rates you'll find.

Pretty much the only requirements are that you demonstrate your ability to afford the mortgage payment (they check your credit, but there's no minimum credit score), that you buy a home worth less than the max price they set for the area you want to buy (250k for ATL, 450k for NYC single families....more for multifamily) and you must live in the home you're buying.

They're tedious to work with, but if you really want to get into homeownership, this is a viable route for just about anyone. And if you're going be in one city for a long time (5+ years), you really should be owning instead of renting.


That program is good, or at least it can be, but it also has A LOT of issues and is run like MLM-lite in many cases.
 

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Preach nyc breh, I’m in the same boat.
The mortgages don’t even be a lot, it’s the down payment that most people can’t get.

And I would never buy a house with 0 down, the interest rates would horrible. You be a slave to that house forever.
What are the average downpayments for NYC and VA?
 

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When I look back at all the dumb shyt that I've wasted money on, these past 10 years I've been working, I could have definitely had enough money for a down payment, had saved and invested.

Now paying the mortgage on that mothafukka... :usure: Thats a different story
 
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Nah Julio nem was overpricing tryna hit a lick:mjpls:

My bd step mom brothers do it all.plumbing,electricity,drywall,roofing,painting..u name it:blessed:

For the low low too:obama:
 

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And on the low, it was done to prevent or discourage people from having kids to prevent overpopulation. Back in the 50s and 60s, the average family had 5 to 10 kids. Now, you hear these educated people going through sterile procedures to prevent an unwanted child to secure their finances.

Why can't the government just be brave and admit that the population growth is unsustainable to the public? :sas2:

Use white supremacist talking points Beth’s:coffee:
 

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The security guard at my job who emigrated from another country went thought the same thing, and now has a two family property with 3% interest rate.
Clearly one of these wanted more than the other.

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He actually got laid off two weeks before closing. So he couldn't get the crib. Lot of work ended up being for nothing.
 
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