• Turd Ferg@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    3 years and anon came up with enough to buy his own house in cash. Im thinking anon is a drug dealer or a very good prostitute.

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      6 months ago

      I actually have an engineering friend who did this and he did it in 2 years. Dude had no life, but he put a full down payment on a 750k house in two years. So I guess technical jobs just pay well enough

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        6 months ago

        Thats a down payment, anon bought that shit straight cash. You figure the average down payment is 20% so… 150K+ for your friend, thats no chump change either. Does he stay out late at night, maybe looks frazzled all the time?

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          There are decent rural homes you can get for 200-300k within range of civilization in more places than you think

          There’s also still 100k-200k properties in cities if you don’t mind anything left on your porch being stolen

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        Well and the OP says he paid for the house in cash, vs just the down-payment, which could be as low as $37.5k for a $750k house. That’s a lot of money but across 2 years that’s $1600/mo, basically exactly what you’d expect to save on rent. Could also be significantly higher obviously too, if they went for 20% or something.