Fuck. I'm thinking about buying a house before selling my condo mostly because it's just so much easier than dealing with showings while living here. I don't know how I got in this position, but I did. I'm self-conscious about it and don't know what to do about it. The only people I can kind of talk about it with is coworkers, but even that's hit-or-miss depending on their own personal lives as children and other obligations may not give them as much flexibility. And at the same time I constantly worry it will all come crashing down. But then I read articles about most people not knowing how they'd pay for an unexpected $500 expense, and it's like, what right do I have to worry if my income will remain? Or if I should buy a house?But I'm still going to feel plenty self-conscious
My dad is with this lady. Has been for like six years. She's a low-level office flack at the job he used to work. Makes about $38k a year. In the runup to the 2008 crash she bought five houses. Five. She still owns three. She's still underwater on all of them. How does she pay for them? She doesn't. My dad does.