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rates?

Sounds Awesome, except if you got caught by Bldg Mgmt and had to move all your shit out, right after you move it all in. no One likes moving.........

 

I have a friend that had the same deal for a few years. He never charged for it. Matter o fact, I believe HE even supplied the keg at the exit point. I hear it makes you lazy. Why go out when you can stay home and drink and jump? I stood on the edge and nearly shit my pants. I never ended up jumping it. There are stories about cops storming the building and heli-o-chopters buzzin around. Doesnt take long to draw some heat when canopies are banging open outside the living room of the guy 10 floors down at all hours of the night. Good luck. if you get it, i believe there is a law somewhere that says you have to get one of those RC BASE Jumpers too!

are RC BASE Jumpers heavy drinkers and partiers too?

 
I'm paying less then that for my house. Very nice 2000sqft three bed two bath hill top lake view home on lake travis. I'm not sure I'd pay that much in rent for an exit point I'd jumped four times. Money is so cheep right now and the market is so soft how can you not buy? I'll be $50000 to the good when I resell.

Lee

1300 for a luxury apt in a high rise??

For that price you can get a 2 bedroom apt in a crappy neighborhood in Orange County.

Are you in Maine or Mexico?

I'd love to jump it but like RiggerLee said
the market is at a low, which makes this
the time to buy, if you can.

 

if you're serious, we can talk next time i'm in town.

don't forget the following:

property taxes, escrow, home owner's insurance, utilities, maintenance, closing costs... all those things add up at the end of every month / end of the sale. plus 3% is a low down payment, look to put down 10-20% if you can. makes you a stronger candidate for mortgage

Plus, when they look at your credit, they will look at your verifiable income and debt-to-income ratio. So if you're counting on erica's salary to help, you've got to demonstrate her income as part of yours somehow, or list her as a tennant. advice is to build credit any way you can... get a credit card, buy shit with it and pay off at the end of each month. make sure your phone bills and utilities are all paid on time, make sure you have no financial judgements on your record, get a credit report. you may be surprised with the outcome. I qualified for a 240k mortgage when my salary was $55k / year, but that was pushing it on debt-income, and my broker did me a favor.

just advice from someone who's been through it.

Very good points, I concur.

Back in 2002* when I first looked at buying a house
I was making about $50K, had $63K in student loans,
and another $12K in credit card debt, and some idiot
mortgage broker at First Union was willing to loan me
well over $200,000 for a house.

Questions

1. why the fuck would a single man need that big of a house?
2. how the fuck could a single earner afford to pay the monthly
mortgage as well as utilities, insurance, and all of his debts?

Answers

1. no one needs an enormous house for just themself
2. no one should buy so much house they are poor

And lastly, this ladies and gentlemen is a big part
of the reason why the housing crisis occurred.

* Please note in 2002 in Tallahassee, Florida one could
easily buy a decent house for about half that amount.

unfortunately for me, where i live, $299K got me an 875sf single-story bungalow which needed to be gutted and the interior entirely re-done (in progress) on 50x100 property. I bought in late 2005.

Sorry dude, yeah that is a steep price
for not a lot of square footage or land.

Of course in New Jersey land is more
scarce than the panhandle of Florida
plus 2005 the market was heated up.