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]]>I know what you mean about house prices. When they started spiking around here, the common question was – who in hell can afford it. The locals are having fits after they found out that the county pays a few department heads $100K and the county commissioners make $67K. Those are huge salaries for this area, so two-bedroom town houses going for $500K are jaw dropping. I still work on the old standard that you can afford a maximum of 5 times your annual salary, which leaves a very small market for prices that high.
The fact that banks were talking to people about mortgages on houses with prices like that raised flags among the old-timers, as well as all of the new banks and banks being bought up. Banks are supposed to be stable. People weren’t sure what was going on, and the powers that be and brokers kept saying “it’s a new economy”, and the old rules were no longer valid.
The signs were out there, but no one with major influence wanted to talk about them.
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]]>Problem is, this all required math for me to do the computations as to whether it made sense to buy or not. And as we all know, Math Is Hard. Sigh…
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