advice for a new board member

[mmbuyer]

thanks to all of you for your responses

temeculaguy
thanks for the advice

robyns_song
unfortunately my wife believes that renting is $$$ down the drain

Ash Housewares
thanks for the suggestion. my wife is thrifty. she cooks our dinner/lunches and packs my lunch for work. she drives an old car. we do not eat out more than once a month. she is willing to trade a lot of other expenses (flat screen TV, vacations) for a home.

Rustico
that is funny

deadzone
I am not asking for a CEO home. My wife finished her grad school. she has a job lined up for 60k. she might have to quit her job if we have a couple of kids

FormerSanDiegan
I realize I can “afford” a 600k home with my salary.

SD Realtor
I do not have any stock option money or huge inheritances coming my way.

barnaby33

you are right that there were some fundamental marriage issues. luckily we have sorted most of them out.

mekuT
my wife has read the book. she practises most of what is written in “Millionaire next door” except the house part 🙂

CBad
She is not that bad. Except the house part. I hope I can wait for another 4-5 years.

GunDoctor
tried that

Navydoc
she has read this forum once. sometimes she feels piggingtoners are sane. sometimes she feels that you are bunch of losers. i would not take it personally.

Rustico
I am not exaggerating. I am leaving some data out for privacy reasons.

bsrsharma
we will see. if i can make it in san diego i will stay here. great place.

otherwise i might move to raleigh, chicago or dallas.

halftrojan
I do have signifcant amount of retirement assets not included in the 200k

doofrat
I do have a fairly stable job. i somewhat control my own destiny. i never said that i had 100% security.

[mmbuyer]

thanks to all of you for your responses

temeculaguy
thanks for the advice

robyns_song
unfortunately my wife believes that renting is $$$ down the drain

Ash Housewares
thanks for the suggestion. my wife is thrifty. she cooks our dinner/lunches and packs my lunch for work. she drives an old car. we do not eat out more than once a month. she is willing to trade a lot of other expenses (flat screen TV, vacations) for a home.

Rustico
that is funny

deadzone
I am not asking for a CEO home. My wife finished her grad school. she has a job lined up for 60k. she might have to quit her job if we have a couple of kids

FormerSanDiegan
I realize I can “afford” a 600k home with my salary.

SD Realtor
I do not have any stock option money or huge inheritances coming my way.

barnaby33

you are right that there were some fundamental marriage issues. luckily we have sorted most of them out.

mekuT
my wife has read the book. she practises most of what is written in “Millionaire next door” except the house part 🙂

CBad
She is not that bad. Except the house part. I hope I can wait for another 4-5 years.

GunDoctor
tried that

Navydoc
she has read this forum once. sometimes she feels piggingtoners are sane. sometimes she feels that you are bunch of losers. i would not take it personally.

Rustico
I am not exaggerating. I am leaving some data out for privacy reasons.

bsrsharma
we will see. if i can make it in san diego i will stay here. great place.

otherwise i might move to raleigh, chicago or dallas.

halftrojan
I do have signifcant amount of retirement assets not included in the 200k

doofrat
I do have a fairly stable job. i somewhat control my own destiny. i never said that i had 100% security.

[mmbuyer]

thanks to all of you for your responses

temeculaguy
thanks for the advice

robyns_song
unfortunately my wife believes that renting is $$$ down the drain

Ash Housewares
thanks for the suggestion. my wife is thrifty. she cooks our dinner/lunches and packs my lunch for work. she drives an old car. we do not eat out more than once a month. she is willing to trade a lot of other expenses (flat screen TV, vacations) for a home.

Rustico
that is funny

deadzone
I am not asking for a CEO home. My wife finished her grad school. she has a job lined up for 60k. she might have to quit her job if we have a couple of kids

FormerSanDiegan
I realize I can “afford” a 600k home with my salary.

SD Realtor
I do not have any stock option money or huge inheritances coming my way.

barnaby33

you are right that there were some fundamental marriage issues. luckily we have sorted most of them out.

mekuT
my wife has read the book. she practises most of what is written in “Millionaire next door” except the house part 🙂

CBad
She is not that bad. Except the house part. I hope I can wait for another 4-5 years.

GunDoctor
tried that

Navydoc
she has read this forum once. sometimes she feels piggingtoners are sane. sometimes she feels that you are bunch of losers. i would not take it personally.

Rustico
I am not exaggerating. I am leaving some data out for privacy reasons.

bsrsharma
we will see. if i can make it in san diego i will stay here. great place.

otherwise i might move to raleigh, chicago or dallas.

halftrojan
I do have signifcant amount of retirement assets not included in the 200k

doofrat
I do have a fairly stable job. i somewhat control my own destiny. i never said that i had 100% security.

[ibjames]

She probably thinks we are losers because we don’t agree with her heart 😉

[ibjames]

She probably thinks we are losers because we don’t agree with her heart 😉

[ibjames]

She probably thinks we are losers because we don’t agree with her heart 😉

[ibjames]

She probably thinks we are losers because we don’t agree with her heart 😉

[ibjames]

She probably thinks we are losers because we don’t agree with her heart 😉

[SD Realtor]

mmbuyer good responses. I am glad you did not bail on the post.

I posted about an experiment that I performed once where I had 3 engineers in my office come over and read piggington for awhile. These are bright guys, 2 are renting, one owns his home free and clear. They did not view all of the posters as losers but they did feel there was a strong negative bias here, not just about housing but pretty much about everything. In some cases they felt the bias was quite extreme.

Now my read on this post is that while the bias may be quite negative, I think the jury is very much still out on things. While it seems things have taken and will take longer then expected for the sky to fall, it may still indeed fall. Will it still be confined to housing and will it be a major economic recession? Quite possibly.

I don’t want to detour this thread into a discussion on whether people are right or wrong.

I do want to say that there is an outward pessimistic tone, and some of the posters can be brutal and make light of peoples wives who want a home. However many of these same posters also back up thier posts with facts and they do have insightful analysis. There may be a bias but I think time will bear them out to be for the most part correct. By the same token as you can see there are posts that are pretty off the wall and are clearly made just to get a rise out of people. Those are the ones that really are not worth the time of day.

Hang in there mmbuyer. It sounds like our wives may be the same. Mine works really hard, does not overspend, she doesn’t want or need the million dollar home, nor does she want me to be strapped with a payment that will bury us… she just wants a home.

SD Realtor

[SD Realtor]

mmbuyer good responses. I am glad you did not bail on the post.

I posted about an experiment that I performed once where I had 3 engineers in my office come over and read piggington for awhile. These are bright guys, 2 are renting, one owns his home free and clear. They did not view all of the posters as losers but they did feel there was a strong negative bias here, not just about housing but pretty much about everything. In some cases they felt the bias was quite extreme.

Now my read on this post is that while the bias may be quite negative, I think the jury is very much still out on things. While it seems things have taken and will take longer then expected for the sky to fall, it may still indeed fall. Will it still be confined to housing and will it be a major economic recession? Quite possibly.

I don’t want to detour this thread into a discussion on whether people are right or wrong.

I do want to say that there is an outward pessimistic tone, and some of the posters can be brutal and make light of peoples wives who want a home. However many of these same posters also back up thier posts with facts and they do have insightful analysis. There may be a bias but I think time will bear them out to be for the most part correct. By the same token as you can see there are posts that are pretty off the wall and are clearly made just to get a rise out of people. Those are the ones that really are not worth the time of day.

Hang in there mmbuyer. It sounds like our wives may be the same. Mine works really hard, does not overspend, she doesn’t want or need the million dollar home, nor does she want me to be strapped with a payment that will bury us… she just wants a home.

SD Realtor

[SD Realtor]

mmbuyer good responses. I am glad you did not bail on the post.

I posted about an experiment that I performed once where I had 3 engineers in my office come over and read piggington for awhile. These are bright guys, 2 are renting, one owns his home free and clear. They did not view all of the posters as losers but they did feel there was a strong negative bias here, not just about housing but pretty much about everything. In some cases they felt the bias was quite extreme.

Now my read on this post is that while the bias may be quite negative, I think the jury is very much still out on things. While it seems things have taken and will take longer then expected for the sky to fall, it may still indeed fall. Will it still be confined to housing and will it be a major economic recession? Quite possibly.

I don’t want to detour this thread into a discussion on whether people are right or wrong.

I do want to say that there is an outward pessimistic tone, and some of the posters can be brutal and make light of peoples wives who want a home. However many of these same posters also back up thier posts with facts and they do have insightful analysis. There may be a bias but I think time will bear them out to be for the most part correct. By the same token as you can see there are posts that are pretty off the wall and are clearly made just to get a rise out of people. Those are the ones that really are not worth the time of day.

Hang in there mmbuyer. It sounds like our wives may be the same. Mine works really hard, does not overspend, she doesn’t want or need the million dollar home, nor does she want me to be strapped with a payment that will bury us… she just wants a home.

SD Realtor

[SD Realtor]

mmbuyer good responses. I am glad you did not bail on the post.

I posted about an experiment that I performed once where I had 3 engineers in my office come over and read piggington for awhile. These are bright guys, 2 are renting, one owns his home free and clear. They did not view all of the posters as losers but they did feel there was a strong negative bias here, not just about housing but pretty much about everything. In some cases they felt the bias was quite extreme.

Now my read on this post is that while the bias may be quite negative, I think the jury is very much still out on things. While it seems things have taken and will take longer then expected for the sky to fall, it may still indeed fall. Will it still be confined to housing and will it be a major economic recession? Quite possibly.

I don’t want to detour this thread into a discussion on whether people are right or wrong.

I do want to say that there is an outward pessimistic tone, and some of the posters can be brutal and make light of peoples wives who want a home. However many of these same posters also back up thier posts with facts and they do have insightful analysis. There may be a bias but I think time will bear them out to be for the most part correct. By the same token as you can see there are posts that are pretty off the wall and are clearly made just to get a rise out of people. Those are the ones that really are not worth the time of day.

Hang in there mmbuyer. It sounds like our wives may be the same. Mine works really hard, does not overspend, she doesn’t want or need the million dollar home, nor does she want me to be strapped with a payment that will bury us… she just wants a home.

SD Realtor

[SD Realtor]

mmbuyer good responses. I am glad you did not bail on the post.

I posted about an experiment that I performed once where I had 3 engineers in my office come over and read piggington for awhile. These are bright guys, 2 are renting, one owns his home free and clear. They did not view all of the posters as losers but they did feel there was a strong negative bias here, not just about housing but pretty much about everything. In some cases they felt the bias was quite extreme.

Now my read on this post is that while the bias may be quite negative, I think the jury is very much still out on things. While it seems things have taken and will take longer then expected for the sky to fall, it may still indeed fall. Will it still be confined to housing and will it be a major economic recession? Quite possibly.

I don’t want to detour this thread into a discussion on whether people are right or wrong.

I do want to say that there is an outward pessimistic tone, and some of the posters can be brutal and make light of peoples wives who want a home. However many of these same posters also back up thier posts with facts and they do have insightful analysis. There may be a bias but I think time will bear them out to be for the most part correct. By the same token as you can see there are posts that are pretty off the wall and are clearly made just to get a rise out of people. Those are the ones that really are not worth the time of day.

Hang in there mmbuyer. It sounds like our wives may be the same. Mine works really hard, does not overspend, she doesn’t want or need the million dollar home, nor does she want me to be strapped with a payment that will bury us… she just wants a home.

SD Realtor

[ibjames]

my wife just upped our saving requirements, she’s starting to get annoying!

[ibjames]

my wife just upped our saving requirements, she’s starting to get annoying!

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