Swifty

[Halon]

Affording a house by yourself, at this age, is not an easy thing when coming right out of college. I bought my house when I was just about to turn 24, but I had zero college debt (thanks military), and had money saved up as the military is basically a paying full time job, lived with and I happened upon a job with a LOT of travel that payed very well. I lived with my dad for awhile until I had even more money saved up. Then I got a houseNot the nicest house, but a house. And having a roommate makes a huge difference.

Part of me thinks back now, if I would have just stayed with my dad and saved up for a 2 more years (put aside the same amount of money I've been paying on my mortgage/property tax), and man, I'd have somewhere around 1/4 of my house paid off already...

[dumb_ricer]

Originally Posted by Halon

Affording a house by yourself, at this age, is not an easy thing when coming right out of college. I bought my house when I was just about to turn 24, but I had zero college debt (thanks military), and had money saved up as the military is basically a paying full time job.

I have nothing against Swifty, minus the fact that him and three friends hijacked my brand new car for like 4 days!

And on the Military note, I was just looking at the post 9/11 GI Bill, and that thing is insanely awesome!

Fully paid tuition at any state school in the country, 1k towards books a year, plus E5 with dependents BAH! At the University of MN that comes out to about 1500 dollars a month for housing/whatever the fuck else. Not bad at all! And you can take advantage of it for 10 years!