At this point it’s easier to join a movement to tax private ownership of essentials, than saving for a home
Am 43. Owned a falling-apart trailer for two years til it leaked enough carbon monoxide to almost kill me. Couldn’t afford maintenance. I have one Aunt left to live with and when she passes I’m expecting to be homeless again. I’ll never afford my own home. Yes, I’ve looked up “assistance” for disabled and therefore low income ppl in my area, and many other areas as well bc I’d move for a home again in a heartbeat, but that stuff simply isn’t funded anymore. I feel like I’ve been moving from one family to another who will temporarily adopt me for the last 15 years.
I’d love to buy a home
I just can’t do it any time soon due to ballooning prices where I currently live
Special news report coming in: Water is indeed wet.
I have almost 200k put away and it isn’t enough.
EU has countries where 200 is sufficient for a good house. Government is a bit better too.
But but 50 year mortgages. Pounce now and you can own by 90
Seriously got lucky by inheriting one. It sucks thinking about anyone to afford one out the pockets.
Yeah, we’ve decided that we’re just gonna pick a house we like and move in. If someone lives there, they can live under it. Got 64 more layers til bedrock, right?
Yeah, don’t know where you’re going with this. But I said I was lucky in the first few words.
airbnb, and corporate landlords(blackstone/rock) are the blame. plus the low wages of many fields too.
Even if you had high wages, it’s really difficult with all of this inflation.
I’m a millennial with a house but no retirement savings, and the WSJ tells me the average millennial has over $1m in retirement assets now, so fuck y’all and your privilege. (I’m just kidding, I know you’re poor too)
Love all those articles that are like “By 30 you should be saving and have this much for retirement by now…”
Like lol the car made a funny noise, $100 doesn’t even hope to fill a grocery cart, and we’re enjoying yet another “unprecedented” planned financial crisis in our lifetimes, what do you want from me here.
Mate, there is no chance the average millennial has over $1m in retirement assets. The average Gen X doesn’t have that much and we have been working a lot longer.
Depends on the ‘average’. Mean? Yes; median? probably not
lol 😂 what a sick twisted sense of humor.
So if younger generations have less and less capital with which to enter the housing market, then where does the value appreciation come from I wonder?
House flippers keep buying houses, painting shit white, then selling it to another flipper for 100k more than they bought it for
At this rate HGTV will have turned everyone on Earth into a house flipper by mid next year.
I have so much debt that I’m certain this regime will fuck up and make it worse for me, there’s little recourse to getting assistance with any sort of other debt. I keep trying to save but shit.keeps.breaking. I’ll never own a home, never retire, I barely have a comfortable life. Tell me what I’m not doing what those intrusive thoughts are telling to do again?
declare bankruptcy, that’s what it’s for
It doesn’t clear student loan debt, I have to have a level of hardship I don’t have. I’m able to pay my debts but I’m left with little afterwards. It’s a crummy catch 22 system overall and bankruptcy isn’t a magical get out of debt want. It hampers you in the new red lining they call “Credit Score.”
ooooooh, yeah…for studen loan debt i recommend just paying the absolute legal minimum to keep it from any sort of collections/default status (which, last i checked was like 50-100$/month?), then pretending the rest doesn’t exist.
eventually, either a sane government comes into power and clears all actively paying debts for an easy voter-support win, or the USA collapses entirely into a MAGA-amerikka paradise and we probably have a 2nd civil war…either way not your problem
i’m not sure i ever held out hope of owning my own home.
I’m glad I bought my house when interest rates were just barely above 3%. I couldn’t afford my home if I had to buy it today.
This fucking economy sucks and we need to start removing everyone in power forcefully until the problems go away. Then start again.
Duh. This is what unchecked wealth inequality is doing. As retirees sell their house to fund retirements and new properties are built, people with already sizable passive income streams are buying them up to increase their passive income streams by turning them into rentals. If you want to build more, developers need to bid against that same wealth for land, driving up the cost of the units and further driving them into wealthy portfolios. Governments are pretty much fully leveraged after covid, so they’ve got few assets to help subsidize affordable housing, which is often being privately sold anyway and will be sold by those owners later at market prices when these cash strapped families need the money (for retirement or unexpected troubles).
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pUKaB4P5Qns
The squeeze-out of the middle class has begun.
The squeeze-out of the middle class has begun.
The squeeze-out began in the 1970s and is in full swing.
There’s still hope, I just recently bought a home just after turning 40. You just need to put a ton of money into savings, go bankrupt paying medical bills after something bad happens to your spouse, spend 7 years in borderline poverty, and then have one of your parents die the same month they retire and collect their retirement fund.
I hate that the best thing my father ever gave me was his pension.
Hey now, I banked $30K in cash and bought a house, all I had to do was have a heart attack, open heart surgery, and move to 100% work from home. 😉
3 years after I stopped driving to the office, paying $21 a day to park, and eating out all the damn time… boom! $30K in the bank!
Calling my pops now. Letting him know the plan.
Our 85 y/o dad is pretty much our only hope for a retirement fund. Only problem is that his parents and relatives all lived to between 95 and 105. And I’m already nearly 50.
your spouse
Yep, no hope lol
Can’t afford anything at all on a single income. :(
just need both parents to die
Slightly better than my path.
I bought a house this year, also age 40. To get there, I took a job with a large soulless corporation that is slowly destroying all of us, and then borrowed against all my retirement to get my down payment money.
I just keep saying, “At least I have a house…”
