Buying cars in yo 20's
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I'd like to build a 2 1500sq/ft unit shop condo for $96k and rent out the one unit to pay the mortgage. Saving for 15-20% down payment will take a while vs just renting a unit right now though. That's my long goal that I hope to achieve within a couple years. Buying a duplex home has always been one of my plans too.
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I really need to start thinking about this. I'm already not being so smart with my money since my car has taken roughly 20K...
Think of the scene point ROI though
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going in with less than 20% is common, normal, and doable if you are first-time buyer and are owner occupying the building. If it's an investment property (no owner occ), then you will struggle to get a bank to finance you at less than 20%.
I've always done at least 20%, however, PMI is based on 5% increments, so you pay more at 10% down than you do at 15%. You can balance the PMI with rent you collect on a duplex that you owner occupy and still mitigate cost well, and with at least a 10% down payment you should be able to sell it if you had to without totally losing your ass (unless it needs major repairs).
15k on a 100k house isn't awful because it is accurate to say that your month to month costs will be similar. If you are willing to do a little bit of work, though i.e. learn to be handy (the right way please - most handyman jobs i've seen at properties over the years are totally wrong/unsafe/not to code), screen tenants and whatnot - then I would never look at a 100k house with 15k down. I'd try to find a duplex to live in - I have looked at a lot of properties in the Oshkosh area over the past couple years - I know property managers in that area who would take 7-8% gross rent but the buildings cost 60-75k and you can still get around 1500/mo gross rent for the building at that point and make a killing.
Some people just flat out want to live in a house and for that, 100k home in your 20's with 15k down isn't bad because you are not stretching yourself out too far. But for what it's worth, if you want a slightly better position for yourself, doing the diligence to find a solid duplex for cheap is smart.
I would never, ever build a house. Incredible waste of money. You're paying at minimum 25% more than what you could get an existing home for in real terms of dollars per sq. ft and features.
I would only build a shop if I was running my business out of it and living out of it. There are plenty of properties available for purchase that are dual-zoned for commercial and residential that will cost you a lot less money overall. There was a sweet foreclosure a few years ago I was looking at in Tosa on North ave. by the sendik's - it was a duplex with 2 attached garage slots for shop work and those garages had an office attached to them. We got beat out by investors who would walk in and pay cash - we actually had a higher offer but the bank will always take a cash offer for a few thousand less because it's a cleaner/safer deal. Guaranteed the bank gets their money then so they always lean towards that when it comes to foreclosures.
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In the mean time, before I buy a large piece of land, where i will build my house(I'm sorry, no one builds a house like I want my house to be like, and my father is going to build it with me. Always been a dream of mine, and i will do it), but that won't be for a while, and I want to get a good start on my business. But this requires me to either add on to my current shop, which I'm afraid I won't get any return on my investment when I go to sell the place(who buys a 750sqft house with a huge shop???).
would you simply find a shop to rent, find a shop to buy, or expand?
sk8 or die
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Interesting Rent vs. Buy Calculator from the New York Times recently.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-calculator.html?_r=0&abt=0002&abg=1
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I really need to start thinking about this. I'm already not being so smart with my money since my car has taken roughly 20K...
$20k and no turbo....sad day
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Interesting Rent vs. Buy Calculator from the New York Times recently.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-calculator.html?_r=0&abt=0002&abg=1
Just filled this out lol.
Supposedly I made the right move. Renting a place for around 250$ a month would be the better move, but no way in hell could I rent a place for that.
I love my tiny house.
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sk8 or die
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Interesting Rent vs. Buy Calculator from the New York Times recently.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-calculator.html?_r=0&abt=0002&abg=1
visian, I'm not saying this applies to you, but anyone who takes this calculator seriously is an idiot.
This is the housing equivalent of taking life/relationship advice from EliteDaily.com
There are so many holes in this. The numbers are incomplete, the numbers that are present are sourced from national data that is averaged, does not factor in cost of living differences or the fact that home price growth varies wildly right now and the majority of areas are not seeing growth. Some 70% of new construction in this country is currently rental buildings, NOT single family homes. People talk about the residential new construction market coming back and what's never represented is what % of the new construction is rental buildings vs. single family homes. I had an article last year that referenced this with all the data that I wish I had bookmarked right now.
This calculator also does not factor a person's age/demographics i.e. how much money they earn vs. how young they are and as such how much they stand to increase over 10 years time and what that means for what they could or could not buy as investment drivers, and because it doesn't include ANY data on cost of living and how wildly that differs based on city, it's impossible to account for the fact that a younger person will struggle a LOT more with maintaining a house and living there compared to renting because of ever-increasing utility costs that, commonly in rentals heat/water are covered by the landlords, and how much even small repairs on a house cut into a young person's limited cash flow/income.
This is so misleading it makes my head spin. My god. There is no consideration for qualitative analysis here either - not that there can be because it's intangible and varies from person to person. But that's exactly why this cannot be taken seriously. If I had followed the output recommendation of this calculator without considering who I am and what my propensity is, I wouldn't even have half the net worth that I currently have at 32. And I'd have set myself back a decade in real terms as far as where my leverage and investing power would be.
Holy fuck. I'm not surprised though because after all it is the NY Times.
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Damn....going to tell the wife about elitedaily.com we've been going strong because of it.
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We now need an elite daily thread. REKIII, get us rolling
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I will admit, that calculator seems biased towards buying a home. I think it can be a valuable tool, but it's generalized and there are so many other unique factors for every person.
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Buying a home will, in general, be a better option for most of the population. The numbers don't work, when figured like ILC or I have described, but most people, or the average person, will not invest the difference when renting, therefore ending up with less than if you had bought.
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Buying a home will, in general, be a better option for most of the population. The numbers don't work, when figured like ILC or I have described, but most people, or the average person, will not invest the difference when renting, therefore ending up with less than if you had bought.
this is so very true. You have to take what I say with a grain of salt because 99% of the population is not willing to sacrifice or do what I do. My friends used to think I was a millionaire because I was quote unquote "in real estate", meanwhile I'm sitting there on my hands and knees scraping up 4 layers of tile on a bathroom floor in a building that I was pretty sure was going to kill my health.
But it doesn't change the fact that I'm being totally honest about everything if the goal for a person reading this is to actually do something more with their lives instead of go to work, come home and do the family thing and watch American Idol or whatever the fuck is on tv these days.
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I don't have cable. So it's the people's court for me.
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