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I agree with you. We all need to make a compromise between dream and reality. I can think of a lot of things our current “dream” house could become a better dream house. I was just trying to say–don’t settle for a place you’ll hate from the beginning. Settle maybe for 9/10 or even 7/10 of your dream house.

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I feel your frustration. It’s a shame how little 100k gets one in terms of quality of life in SoCal. My situation is very similar to yours incomewise. We rented for 3 years before we bought during which time our savings/investment nearly doubled from 130k to 200k. I’m actually not quite sure how that happend. We’re fortunate and extremely grateful that we had considerable equity from our last house which allowed us to make a big down payment. We recently moved into a dream house (a McMansion in a great neighorhood ~20 min from work) and love it. If I were you I’d continue to rent and save/invest until you could afford a dream house. What’s the point of stretching your finances to buy something that’s NOT your dream house?

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I feel your frustration. It’s a shame how little 100k gets one in terms of quality of life in SoCal. My situation is very similar to yours incomewise. We rented for 3 years before we bought during which time our savings/investment nearly doubled from 130k to 200k. I’m actually not quite sure how that happend. We’re fortunate and extremely grateful that we had considerable equity from our last house which allowed us to make a big down payment. We recently moved into a dream house (a McMansion in a great neighorhood ~20 min from work) and love it. If I were you I’d continue to rent and save/invest until you could afford a dream house. What’s the point of stretching your finances to buy something that’s NOT your dream house?

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I feel your frustration. It’s a shame how little 100k gets one in terms of quality of life in SoCal. My situation is very similar to yours incomewise. We rented for 3 years before we bought during which time our savings/investment nearly doubled from 130k to 200k. I’m actually not quite sure how that happend. We’re fortunate and extremely grateful that we had considerable equity from our last house which allowed us to make a big down payment. We recently moved into a dream house (a McMansion in a great neighorhood ~20 min from work) and love it. If I were you I’d continue to rent and save/invest until you could afford a dream house. What’s the point of stretching your finances to buy something that’s NOT your dream house?

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I feel your frustration. It’s a shame how little 100k gets one in terms of quality of life in SoCal. My situation is very similar to yours incomewise. We rented for 3 years before we bought during which time our savings/investment nearly doubled from 130k to 200k. I’m actually not quite sure how that happend. We’re fortunate and extremely grateful that we had considerable equity from our last house which allowed us to make a big down payment. We recently moved into a dream house (a McMansion in a great neighorhood ~20 min from work) and love it. If I were you I’d continue to rent and save/invest until you could afford a dream house. What’s the point of stretching your finances to buy something that’s NOT your dream house?

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I feel your frustration. It’s a shame how little 100k gets one in terms of quality of life in SoCal. My situation is very similar to yours incomewise. We rented for 3 years before we bought during which time our savings/investment nearly doubled from 130k to 200k. I’m actually not quite sure how that happend. We’re fortunate and extremely grateful that we had considerable equity from our last house which allowed us to make a big down payment. We recently moved into a dream house (a McMansion in a great neighorhood ~20 min from work) and love it. If I were you I’d continue to rent and save/invest until you could afford a dream house. What’s the point of stretching your finances to buy something that’s NOT your dream house?

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I can’t believe anyone would pay >$500K for a small place like that.

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I can’t believe anyone would pay >$500K for a small place like that.

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I can’t believe anyone would pay >$500K for a small place like that.

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I can’t believe anyone would pay >$500K for a small place like that.

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I can’t believe anyone would pay >$500K for a small place like that.

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[quote=flu] You have no commissions to buy and sell stock in Fidelity? Wow. I wish that was the case for me. I have Fidelity too. There’s no fee for mutual funds, but there are fees for buying/selling stock.[/quote]

I meant no maintainance fees. I pay $9 a trade.

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[quote=flu] You have no commissions to buy and sell stock in Fidelity? Wow. I wish that was the case for me. I have Fidelity too. There’s no fee for mutual funds, but there are fees for buying/selling stock.[/quote]

I meant no maintainance fees. I pay $9 a trade.

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[quote=flu] You have no commissions to buy and sell stock in Fidelity? Wow. I wish that was the case for me. I have Fidelity too. There’s no fee for mutual funds, but there are fees for buying/selling stock.[/quote]

I meant no maintainance fees. I pay $9 a trade.

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[quote=flu] You have no commissions to buy and sell stock in Fidelity? Wow. I wish that was the case for me. I have Fidelity too. There’s no fee for mutual funds, but there are fees for buying/selling stock.[/quote]

I meant no maintainance fees. I pay $9 a trade.

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