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Make sure you homestead it! Also, check with your state, there are all kinds of first time home buyer programs floating around to give you free money for innovations or tax breaks. While I completely oppose those programs, if they are already implemented, then you might as well abuse them for all they're worth.

It's a good feeling to close, so enjoy it. You will have plenty more headaches to deal with ahead of you. :)

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I don't know about a hotel. It's a small house, just big enough for all 3 of us. It's just under 800 square feet.

But, property taxes + house insurance + mortgage payment = 291 per month. Taxes get reevaluated in January, but that'll only increase the payment to $329 per month.

It's a 3.625% 30 year fixed rate.

This, by the way, is how I'm finally getting out of the welfare system. As I said, done properly, a mortgage is cheaper than renting an apartment. :cool:

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I don't know about a hotel. It's a small house, just big enough for all 3 of us. It's just under 800 square feet.

But, property taxes + house insurance + mortgage payment = 291 per month. Taxes get reevaluated in January, but that'll only increase the payment to $329 per month.

It's a 3.625% 30 year fixed rate.

This, by the way, is how I'm finally getting out of the welfare system. As I said, done properly, a mortgage is cheaper than renting an apartment. :cool:

Of course it is, until the roof falls in and you cant just call the landlord ;)

Congrats on the win btw

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Of course it is, until the roof falls in and you cant just call the landlord ;)

Congrats on the win btw

Steel roof. Whole house is updated as of this year.:cool:

New electrical, new plumbing, new furnace, new hot water heater, proper steel roof (old roof stripped away, chimney removed, 16" of blown insulation in the attic)...literally not much more I could ask for.

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Do so then...the total interest payment really spikes after the 20 year mark

I've noticed. I'm getting off luckier than most people with the rate being fixed and no penalty for early pay-off, but, yeah, the interest on it, if not payed off early, is almost half the value of the house itself. $20,000 in interest on a property that will depreciate in value is crazy. Banks. Ridiculous.

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Don't know what else to say' date=' except that I think in a couple weeks I'll roll a character to properly celebrate having my own house. :cool:[/quote'] Congrats Rev. I just got a new computer after losing the net for a year. Trying to play, but also just went back to college. 6 classes, and 40+ hours in a metal fabrication shop a week, isn't leaving the time I wish it did.
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