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Question about my dad's 'buy a house now' advice from 2020

He said to ignore the high prices and just get in, but now my mortgage is $3,200 a month and I'm house-poor. Anyone else get burned by older generation 'just tough it out' financial advice?
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patricia317
That advice worked great when a starter home cost two years salary, not ten.
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graygonzalez
My uncle gave me the same advice in 2019 and I'm still kicking myself. patricia317 is right, their whole idea of a fair price is just gone now. It feels like a lot of that old school advice is based on a world that doesn't exist anymore.
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the_wesley
the_wesley24d ago
Exactly, like patricia317 said, their math was from a totally different world.
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