“There’s this wild disconnect between what people are experiencing and what economists are experiencing,” says Nikki Cimino, a recruiter in Denver.
It kind of does, though. She look out a mortgage and those have a monthly cost.
What OP is probably saying is that if you have a certain income level and then you choose to take on a debt that you’re going to have trouble paying back, that’s mistake that you made and should have seen coming. This wasn’t an unforseen medical bill, the person in the article could have chosen to buy a cheaper condo or rented until rates were more favorable.
She also really should have finished paying off that CC debt and delayed the down payment; that’s just a killer and is almost certainly at 3 or 4 times the interest rate of her mortgage, which incidentally could have been a bit lower if her debt-to-income ratio were better. Shit sucks, but somebody who’s doing okay and fucks it up gets less sympathy from me than people who would do anything to be living paycheck to paycheck with a steady income and home ownership.
Also gotta love how many of these people remember Trump fondly because he was president WHILE THE GOVERNMENT WAS CUTTING THEM CHECKS! That’s absolutely not gonna be his plan in round two.
What OP is probably saying is that if you have a certain income level and then you choose to take on a debt that you’re going to have trouble paying back, that’s mistake that you made and should have seen coming
If that’s what they’d said, I wouldn’t take issue with it. Of course a person has to do the maths, buying a home isn’t a light decision. But the size of the purchase isn’t at all related to living cheque to cheque, which was in the words they chose.
Yes it is. Higher home cost = higher monthly payment. Why would it not be related?
Because the purchase is broken up into installments and paid back monthly. That is why, despite my home being the most expensive thing I have ever purchased, I am not living cheque to cheque. If her problem were the size of the purchase alone, then I too would be living cheque to cheque and so would all other homeowners with mortgages.
Edit: I should point out that my cost of living has actually dropped since I bought my home, because I did the maths to be sure it would. Most expensive purchase of my life saved me money. Go figure, right?
