• na_th_an@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Yeah, my wife and I didn’t inherit any money or get any kind of gift for a down payment but we wouldn’t be homeowners unless our parents paid tens of thousands into each of our college educations.

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      3 months ago

      My husband and I wouldn’t be homeowners if we didn’t live with my parents for over a decade saving up. Though I understand not everyone has that available to them.

      If we’d had to rent an apartment it would’ve never happened. We also don’t have kids, so that’s a contributing factor too.

      Even with all that, we could only afford a small, one story fixer upper that was an estate sale in the middle of nowhere. It’s a house though, and we were very lucky to get it.