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You are smart. The problem is women will try to convince you into buying the "nest" for your future happy family. I would suggest you sock away a chunk of change in a Roth IRA asap and then save for the down payment.
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2011 Oct 15, 3:55am
New 2010 Census data show a big increase in 25-34 year olds living with parents. Not all of them are doing so to save up for a down payment, but you're definitely not unusual. Bad economic times mean fewer households, and it's also burying the real poverty rate. (A single or couple earning poverty wages living with parents who aren't poor shows up as a non-poverty household.)
What you're doing is very common in first generation Asian families here.
The US continues to emulate Japan 10 years ago. Our 20 and 30 somethings will also become the "buy nothing generation" as a reaction against their parents and older cohorts' conspicuous consumption.
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There are two ways to beat the banks, as I see it: minimize the amount of debt one accrues over one's lifetime, and pay down debt faster than the schedule dictates. A mortgage is for most the biggest debt they will assume. I'm trading in some pride and independence and recently moved in with my parents to save money for a down payment. I feel pretty emasculated by this, since I'm in my late twenties, but then again I have a couple friends who overextended themselves and have already been foreclosed on. Where I live in Chicago, landlords were jacking up rents because so many people are renting now. I guess I stayed ahead of the slave drivers again (didn't buy during the boom), but at the loss of some dignity. My planned downpayment will exceed 20% and I hope to get a ten-year mortgage for the remainder and pay that at an accelerated pace. The price of the property I buy will not exceed 3x of my income.
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