Of course.
I never claimed to associate with people rich enough to pay for two houses.
Are you denying that the female predominately gets possession, and flow of funds ties to possession and relative earnings (or lack thereof)?
OK, Froglet. I'm calling b.s. on all this.
I paid for two houses on a single person's modest salary (your numbers make no sense for me to track what you consider average, but I'm well under 6 figures) when I lived in the Seattle area, also not one of the cheapest housing markets. Granted, I used one as a rental, but I still had at least 4 months a year when the rental was empty and I did not charge enough to cover the entire cost of the mortgage in order to keep it rented as much as possible.
So, I had a 250K home I was making payments on, and a $125K house I was making payments on at least a quarter of the year with an additional $200 coming out of pocket even on the months it was rented.
I had a car paymnet.
I had the usual bills: cable, utilities, lawn service, maintenance.
I contributed about 20% of my salary to a 401K.
And ya know what? I had plenty of expendable income. I kept a checking balance of several thousand dollars, I bought what I wanted, when I wanted without looking at price tags. I took at least two vacations a year, I contributed to charitable organizations, I paid for half my dates, I threw dinner parties for my friends, and I don't ever remember having a week or a month where there wasn't money left over.
So, I'm calling b.s. on all your financial whining. Seriously, I genuinely admire most of what you post but on this one topic you are hopelessly irrational. Because if I can do that as a single-income household with just an Associate's degree and no professional certification, and you can't manage to live reasonably decently on what I can only assume is a decent salary as a CPA, you are seriously mismanaging your resources.
Or, as Faira suggested, you're just posting to stir things up.
The jig is up, Frogboy. I'm not buying it.
Last edited by littlebluemonkeymind; November 6,2009 at 8:21pm.
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