A house down the road. Sure it’s nice but it has absolutely no yard and you can’t have a pet or anything that makes noise or the neighbors will quickly complain.

So just almost 8000 a month! I used to pay $5000 a year in taxes in 2005, so it’s like paying property taxes every month! Yey! So affordable!

Seriously, I don’t know what sort of fool would be convinced to move into any of these hundreds of houses that are basically 1.5million dollars. They would need to tare them down and built into mini hotels. Problem is that there are literally no local tourists attractions. It would have to be a college dorm house or multi-family slumlord special.

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    Well, at 6.88% interest rate, you are paying about 1k for the house and over 5k to the bank for the privilege. At least for the first 10 years. That’s a crazy rate for a mortgage.

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      I’m old but it entertains me to see people saying 7% is outrageous when I remember the rates in the early 1980s.

      Don’t get me wrong, it’s crazy, it’s just less than half of what rates were there for awhile. One of those “back in my day we walked to school in the snow, uphill both ways” type things.

      Blew my fucking mind when we got a 4% back around 2010 (year guesstimate, too lazy to look it up)

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        Yeah but in the early 1980s, high interest rates were manageable because the median home price ($70,000) was only about two to three times the median household income ($22,000). Today the median home price is past $400,000 while median incomes are around $80,000, about five to seven times annual income. The high interest rate was painful, but it applied to a much smaller loan balance.

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        Yeah, but nowadays 7% it’s more like overdraft interest, or at least car loan. At least in Germany mortgages are well below 4% (were below 1% in the late 2010s).

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      Yup. I wonder wonder wonder how it’s going to go down. It was 1.3million when it first was put on the market a couple of weeks ago. They’re down to just over a million.

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      This house comes with a local McDonalds that will have almost unlimited cheese burgers! The Burger Price is not included but it certainly adds to the value.