Re: What is the minimum you can live on
[Re: danny clifton]
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It used to be that you figured about 1/4 of your income for housing, now it's 1/3. Of course that is a general figure, but it illustrates that housing is getting more expensive. Also, I doubt the 1/3 figure factors in the recent inflation we've had.
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Re: What is the minimum you can live on
[Re: danny clifton]
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I guess it depends. The county I live in is very rural. When my mom was looking to move here 2 years ago I looked at renting them a place. $800 was the cheapest I found, with nothing included. I was shocked. That would have been about 50% of their income. Ended up buying them a house instead, with us being their landlords.
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Re: What is the minimum you can live on
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Banks sell a lot of your mortgages. The government is the big bad guy.
Who is John Galt?
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Re: What is the minimum you can live on
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Not the government, the federal reserve.
Who else can afford to borrow money at 2.5 to 3.5 percent interest during 5 percent inflation?
"Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon". Milton Friedman.
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Re: What is the minimum you can live on
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It can not hurt to own your home outright. I’m nervous about all this communist stuff going on. Under communism you lose real property. It all belongs to the state. There have been more than one successful communist revolution. Would it succeed here? I don’t know. It IS succeeding and they are lining things up for when they drop the hammer.
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Re: What is the minimum you can live on
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I don't see how people can afford to pay market value for health insurance and still afford to live. This! Wife and I saved up and worked hard. We bought 100 acre farm that had very low taxes due to being in a farming program (and development rights were sold to gov.). Paid it off now farmers rent check far exceeds taxes, up keep, and insurance costs. But health care or insurance costs are nuts!
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Re: What is the minimum you can live on
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Not the government, the federal reserve.
Who else can afford to borrow money at 2.5 to 3.5 percent interest during 5 percent inflation? Freddy and Fanny . Still in conservatorship of FHFA . The Federal Housing Finance Agency is an independent federal agency in the United States. Federal agency isn't that government? "Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are federally backed home mortgage companies created by the United States Congress."
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Who is John Galt?
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Re: What is the minimum you can live on
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Fannie and Freddy are selling those mortgages. Most of them to the Fed.
"Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon". Milton Friedman.
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Re: What is the minimum you can live on
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Except somebody is paying those real estate and rent prices. If no one was paying it would go down I heard on the radio just the other day that the median price of a home nationwide is just under $400,000. I couldn't begin to afford that. My son-in-law just purchased five house lots in the Charlotte area for $250,000 a piece. Then you have to put a house on it. This is my retirement home. Jealous of you! No joke!
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Re: What is the minimum you can live on
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If you live in the bush at camp you can live on very little money. It is a very stress free life. A great way to live and be happy!
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Re: What is the minimum you can live on
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This post has a lot of variables but interesting to read.
My $.02 start planning for your retirement the day you get your first real job not five years before you are set to retire.
Live beneath your means - just because you qualify for a huge home loan doesn't mean you should take that amount.
Keep an eye on debt and pay it off as soon as you can. When you are in debt you are working for someone else.
If you planned early on and lived beneath your means while working, there should be a considerable nest egg available for retirement. It is possible to retire a multi millionaire at 57 from an average paying career job.
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Re: What is the minimum you can live on
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The mortgage when we got married was 100% of two weeks pay. lol Talk about living on love!
Finally have a mortgage that is 35% of a weeks pay.
We could live on a lot less like many folks but choose not to.
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Re: What is the minimum you can live on
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Health insurance is by far the biggest hurdle in the retirement move as like stated it’s not affordable to many working folks if they try to retire. Retire at 62 and you have 3 years to go to get Medicare. Then they take out of your Social Security some to pay for that and then you need a subliminal plan to cover the portion that Medicare doesn’t pay for.
If someone is not still working in the family that has coverage it’s tough to do it, if your deep in a mortgage or credit card debt with little savings your still working then for most folks that is.
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Re: What is the minimum you can live on
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That cabin looks awesome! With the new eutopia being built by our government spending the next new homeless group will be people on social security who didn't plan well.
You'll be able to spot them easily. Well fed, good cloths, and a nice tent.
With all the new "immigrants" coming to America it will put even more presure on the housing market. Better start building more freeways!
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Re: What is the minimum you can live on
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All I need is cornmeal, gunpowder, ham hocks and guitar strings!!
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Re: What is the minimum you can live on
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I worry about property tax. Mine keeps going up as appraisals keep increasing. I keep contesting them but it is never reduced to the old number. A backdoor tax increase. Have zoning now too. So already my property has been taken. I need permission from my landlord to use it and nonpayment of rent means eviction.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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