Oh...I want this house so BAD!

Sucks, huh?

Well then I guess it pretty much works out to be the same.. I mean I make like $16 an hour but I pay $950 a month rent for a one bedroom apartment

What a beautiful house!!! Shell, I also looked at the prices on some of the two and three bedroom houses in your area, and I'm soooo jealous!!! I just couldn't believe it when I saw prices like $34,000 or $56,000 for a two or three bedroom house. In the part of MN where I live there is an extreme shortage of affordable housing. In my small town of 3,000 it is extremely rare for ANY house to be offered for less than $110,000!

Sorry I got off topic.

Damn...almost 12,000 just in rent per year! You could put that money towards something you could own!

Don't feel bad...I make 9.20 and hour and I've been working at the same dang job for 14 years!!!! No wonder things are cheaper in our neck of the woods...noone could afford them if they weren't!!!

We have SO many houses on the market here. People just can't afford to live here anymore. The cost of living is going up and less jobs are available. We've had 2 factories shut down in the past couple of months and it really hurts our tiny town of 4000.

I'm just glad I'm leaving here. I still live with my folks because I can't afford to move out with the wages that I'm pulling. I can't complain too much right now though. I pitched a fit a month ago about our pay so I got a 75 cent raise and now that I'm leaving the Pharmacy to become a Support Manager for our store I got another 50 cent raise. Then once I leave for the Training Program, I'll be making over $30,000 a year plus bonuses.

I figured up my new wages and I'll be getting $9.15 an hour. Still that's crappy wages for being with the company for 10 years. I think I started out making $4.50 back in 1993.

Originally posted by Shell
Damn...almost 12,000 just in rent per year! You could put that money towards something you could own!

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I really dont know how to get started in buying a house. I live paycheck to paycheck

That's the hard part especially since houses are so expensive out there. But if you could find a house in decent price range and put that 1000 bucks towards a house, at least you actually have something. Spending all that money for nothing later on really sucks.

That's the exact reason why we lost 2 factories (both were owned by the same person!). Thankfully, a new factory is moving in this fall. That will help some.

Wow that is a great house I don't blame you for wanting it

I just checked out my friend Amy's work website. She works for a realtor in a near by smaller town.

Check out this house. I can't believe they only want $55,000 for it!
http://www.eltingauction.com/122.htm

I wish I had so much money to take care of all of ya's problems!!! Sorry though

Yeah job market pretty much sucks for everybody, but imagine how it would be in a third world country with no job, no finances, no way of living except prostitution Not to make this thread depressing. My husband and I are working on this orphange program back in his country Bangladesh and I swear, just reading the backgrounds on these children just really made me cry and feel bad that I complain about the way I live. These are children, whose moms have been abandoned by their husbands, which is really really bad because there is no job market for the women but prostitution or little stuff like selling flowers on the corners of the street and still that would hardly get a meal for her or her children. The money we spend in eating a lunch here, is enough to pay for their whole month! By the time you convert the money to their money, it could pay for their meals for a month. It really makes me sad when I see these things in third world countries. Anyway....

How sad!

Originally posted by Shell
I just checked out my friend Amy's work website. She works for a realtor in a near by smaller town.

Check out this house. I can't believe they only want $55,000 for it!
http://www.eltingauction.com/122.htm

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*stabs myself in the eye with a hot spork

What the hell is a Spork?

LOL!!!!!! Those things you get at Taco Bell



It's a fork! No, its a spoon.. NO ITS A FORK! ITS A SPORK!! LOL!

Sicy

The house is nice Shell! And so cheap! Well, for here anyway. Talk about high rent, my boyfriend and I paid $1765/month for two years in San Francisco for a 2 bed, and now since we moved to Monterey a few months ago we really lucked out and are paying just $1250 which we think is great. But even though jobs pay more here, it still isn't enough to even contemplate buying real estate in this damn state. We constantly have to talk about where to move in a few years so that we can buy a house.

Of course it's all relative though. . .

Wow, I did not realize California was so bad..My house cost a lot more than the first one, and its smaller(lol)