Re: Walmart Voucher Scam


Eliyahu Rooff Wrote:
> I recently looked at listings in the neighborhood where we lived in San
> Diego back when I was in high school. In 1959, we bought our
> house there for $12,900. Three bedroom, one bath, one-car garage,
> 1014 square feet with a fairly small lot. I found a listing for an
> identical house on the next block (in fact, it was directly behind
> ours - no wonder it looked familiar) selling for $549,000! If the
> same house were up here, it'd be listing for $130,000 or less. I
> can't imagine why anyone is spending that much for those houses or
> how anyone can afford it.
>
> Eliyahu

Houses in our neck of the woods are approaching those prices.
Basically, my husband and I don't expect to be able to pay off our
mortgage in our lifetimes, but we live in a neighborhood that we like,
we're getting the tax breaks of carrying a mortgage, and we're building
up equity to put into a nice condo when we retire and don't feel like
tackling yard work anymore. If we lived in someplace like San
Francisco, I don't imagine we could afford to buy the garage of some of
the homes I've heard about out there, so I try to count my blessings!


--
Gisele
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