Sentences with phrase «afford bigger houses»

The construction industry benefits (people can afford bigger houses).

Could you theoretically use the return on investment to afford a bigger house than your income would allow?

If you have a significant other, you probably think that you can afford a bigger house (and a bigger mortgage) because you have two incomes.

You can afford the bigger house later.

The biggest pitfall is that you'll be so successful at paying down your mortgage that you'll think you can afford a bigger house than you really can.

Not exact matches

So to afford these great big houses, you need to have a successful career.

NerdWallet's FHA loan calculator is an important tool when you are trying to determine that big question — «how much house can I afford?»

Dream too big, and you could end up «house poor,» able to afford your mortgage but little else.

Look at me, I can afford to carry a Louis Vuitton bag, drive a mercedes and live in a big house.

You are going to need a really big miracle to get the lower income to afford a house even if the house market falls.

With more than $ 675,000 in prize money last year, Rocca could afford to move, but he still lives in his father's house, even if it isn't really big enough for a family of four.

It's reminiscent of the housing market debacle — people buying houses that they couldn't afford with loans offering low payments right away but requiring a big balloon payment in the future (that they defaulted on).

But a professor discouraged him, noting that if he went off to a big city, he would be just another salaryman, unable to afford a house.

It is believed that this ability has forced our brains to become bigger, housing many more neurons to afford the precision.

She doesn't live in a big house nor can she afford to go to the expensive private schools without her family struggling.

He wants to move to a bigger house with his wife (Kristen Wiig), but can't afford it.

As Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Tyagi pointed out in The Two Income Trap, buying a house in a school district you can't really afford is one of the biggest causes of bankruptcies.

The model is big enough to house the battery pack and in a price range where people can afford the technology without being so expensive that it does not sell in large volumes.

I love tea, big old houses — although I can only afford a SMALL old house that's always threatening to fall apart but is a real labour of love - and tattooed men.

We give you all the advantages of big - house publishing at prices self - publishers can afford.

The big publishing houses simply can not afford to take a large cut in revenues and still remain viable.

Publicity: It sounds like something that only big publishing houses can afford to do, yet any author can increase their publicity and their book sales — and do so on a shoestring budget.

NerdWallet's FHA loan calculator is an important tool when you are trying to determine that big question — «how much house can I afford?»

«Mortgage holders will need to pay more to meet their debt obligations,» and if this results in an uptick in foreclosures or a decrease in the number of Canadians who can afford to buy a house, expect that to have a big impact on the banking sector's bottom line.

When the federal government wants to stimulate the economy they lower interest rates so we can all afford to buy an even bigger house.

The big corporations and trading houses can afford the big capital and risks, but it is not the case with individual traders who are using their lifelong investments for trading.

However, people who simply want to buy the biggest house they can afford should stick with the lower payments on a 30 - year mortgage.

It's far too easy to spend more than we ought to when we're just putting it on our tab — to buy a fancier car than we need, to purchase a bigger house than we can truly afford, or to pick the private university over state school.

Yes, I've said multiple times that the goal isn't to get the biggest house you can afford.

It's the biggest debt and it weighs on people, they're probably buying houses they can barely afford.

The biggest benefit is to either buy or rent significantly less house than you can afford, because portfolio returns tend to outperform housing (and by a substantial margin).

We'd like to make a contingency offer on the new house, where the purchase is contingent on the sale of the old one going through, but to make it work we'd need to be able to put down a bigger down payment than we can afford at the moment.

Besides debt consolidation, you can also refinance to get some equity out of your house in order to make home improvements, go on a really nice vacation, or make a big purchase you could not otherwise afford to make.

As the housing affordability crisis looms as the next big issue for our national housing market, an increasing number of would - be homebuyers are finding themselves unable to afford the cost of owning their own homes.

Sands says that a big thing with a reverse mortgage is you have to know that you can afford to keep the house.

Ok, so just for fun I ran the numbers... assuming Zillow's overly optimistic numbers are correct, I took our net equity, kept the payment the same (which is optimistic since property taxes and insurance would go up on a bigger house), calculated how much of a loan we could afford, added the equity, and... we could get house costing 1.5 % more than ours is currently worth.

«The only reason for taking [an option ARM] was to use the minimum payment to get more house or a bigger refi than you otherwise could afford,» said Guy Cecala, editor of Inside Mortgage Finance.

So assuming that when you move, you would like to have the greatest equity in your home to use as a down payment for your next bigger and better house, I think there is no contest that the 15 year is a better choice, IF you can afford it, which most new buyers can not.

As this About.com article discusses, the root of risk inherent in many mortgage products is in how these loans have made things too easy; too easy for anyone to qualify for or afford homes that are * much * bigger than one's budget, allowing people to pretty much dig their own money pit, thereby enabling the fermentation of housing bubbles that subsequently turn into explosive busts.

If you buy a house that is bigger than you can afford, that is bad debt.

If you can't afford a 15 yr mortgage, maybe you should consider a cheaper house, or wait longer and build up a bigger down payment.

All that said, I've never heard someone use the reasoning you describe as a reason not to buy a house and stay in an apartment - if you need a bigger place for your family and can afford to buy something bigger, that falls under the shelter provision and not under the investment.

-- Buying a big house you can't afford will impress no one if you have to live with bedsheets as window coverings for years to come.

I think a big problem these days is people are told how much house they can afford and the people take that as an OK to buy that much house or more.

The answer is always that the best big dog house is the one that meets all of your needs at a price you can afford.

In the end you have more fuel efficient cars plus cheap gas which encourages suburban sprawl because people can afford to commute long distances, so then you end up with people buying bigger houses (which use more energy) further out into the ever expanding suburbs.

Suddenly, my friend's company was big enough to need a lawyer on a regular basis, but still too small to afford its own in - house counsel.

Depending on how you want to compromise based on other costs and other factors entirely (like happiness, which we'll get to next), you may be able to get a bigger house than you thought you could afford.

There's no doubt that you can get more for your money outside of the capital — for # 400 a month in London you might just be able to afford a tiny room in a shared flat, whilst in Yorkshire, the same amount could nab you a two bedroom house in Huddersfield town centre — understandably disheartening for those trying to scrape their way through life in the big city.

So we drove to a town where the realty values were slightly lower, and sure enough, we found this wonderful, big house we could afford — but I didn't like it.