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Old 10-01-2008, 11:20 AM
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Since when did people start paying over 120K for their first home?
Where do you live?

We paid $142,000 for our "starter" home in 1994, over 14 years ago, and that was a fixer-upper. I don't think you could buy a trailer for under $120,000 today.
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We bought our current home with the intention of buying a new one in 5 - 7 years. We have been in our current home for a little over 1 year now and are planning to purchase our "forever" home in 2012 - 2014. I realize that this is not the best way to accumulate wealth, but we want to live in a nice home and this is the only way to achieve this goal.
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If I wanted to buy a home now...this is what is under 200K in my area.


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