Re: OT: AARP


"Phyllis Nilsson" <phyllisnilsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Domestic help is having a cleaning lady come in once a week. It doesn't
take a mansion to need help when one is old and has limitations. It has
nothing to do with the size of the house and is not dictated by the
neighborhood.

The house in the subdivision you showed is, in my opinion, an example of
excess. There are millions of people getting by on far less without the
large mortgage and interest rae that would come with it.

Nicer is in the eye of the beholder isn't it? Our house has less than 900
sq. feet plus a full basement. It sits on property that is 30 x 120.
We've lived here for 23 years. Although we've spent thousands during the
last few years to make repairs, there are still many to be made. I'd like
to live in a bigger house that needs no repairs. I'm no different than
anyone else in my "wants". But I know the difference between "wants" and
"needs" and what we can afford.

Well, then, Phyllis, you have more house in better condition than I have.
And my mortgage is not cheap. So I repeat my point that you don't
understand what the market is like TODAY. If you went into the market
TODAY, you couldn't have the house you have. What you did years ago is
irrelevant. Even 10 years ago the market was not like this.


It is just a matter or priorities (which for us, doesn't include a huge
mortgage payment, a brand new house, a brand new car, or the toys for
grownups that lots of people thing of as being necessities of life.

LizzieB. wrote:


If you would, please, define your "nicer neighborhood," because I don't
have a basis for comparison.

Also, "nicer car," because I'm fully in support of a car that runs.

Domestic help? Is your "nicer car" and "nicer neighborhood" on the order
of "domestic help" (that is not in the context of profitability margins)?
I can totally see your point if your nicer house and car are in a
neighborhood where one would expect people to have domestic help.

But we're not talking about that.

This is a house 1 block down the street from me that has been on the
market for almost a year now (note the price): http://tinyurl.com/awyvl

This is my house (bought for almost exactly half the price):
http://tinyurl.com/7suy5

Now, in a rare reversal of events, the first house is typical of what
sells here and for what price (although I can't really say why this one
hasn't) and MY house is the one that (typical for this area) should have
stayed on the market for a year (but I hate the idea of being house rich
and cash poor[1]).

If your definition comes close to that first house I linked, then I can
really see your point (and agree), but until we define what's "nicer" to
everybody, then we have no basis for debate on the specifics.



[1]When I was delivering pizza at the tender age of 20 for one of my
dad's bizarre PI assignments, I saw this a lot. I'd go to the
neighborhoods with the million-dollar homes (and Beemers in the drive)
and they'd have no furniture, and no cash to tip me with. I thought that
was just about as pathetic as any rust-ridden tin-roofed SE Kansas
coal-mining shack I'd ever seen.


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