Sentences with phrase «modest house he bought»

Instead, he still lives in the same modest house he bought in 1958 for $ 31,500.

He lives in the same modest house he bought over 40 years ago, and works at the same office he bought around the same time.

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Gordon and his wife have discussed the idea of buying a safe house — something more secluded and modest than their current White Rock home — to which they could escape when things get bad.

I don't even own my own place yet but instead of buying the most house I can afford, I'm planning on getting a very modest condo that will work as an investment property.

Having bought a house last year, we're now spending money on home decor, and saving up for a air conditioning and a modest kitchen renovation.

The couple figures buying a modest house for $ 850,000 would leave them with a $ 535,000 mortgage.

Because he's worth $ 65 billion in investments, yet still lives off his low - six - figure salary, in the same modest Omaha house he bought in the 1950s.

• The higher payment might limit the buyer to a more modest house than they would be able to buy with a 30 - year loan.

People often question why I would live in a small, modest apartment when I could easily go out and buy a decent house (in cash, mind you).

So if instead of buying a $ 250,000 house, you go with a more modest $ 200,000 number, you might lower your mortgage, property taxes and insurance costs by roughly $ 250 a month.

Back then, it bought me a modest house and made my parents slightly less ashamed to say what I did for a living.

There are the retired middle classes who bought modest - seeming houses back in the day and find themselves millionaires, and whose children have little chance of becoming property owners except through inheritance.

Because he's worth $ 65 billion in investments, yet still lives off his low - six - figure salary, in the same modest Omaha house he bought in the 1950s.

We have a modest house here that we bought as a vacation home and works well for now.

OK, go ahead and laugh: Take newlyweds with a modest income and little savings for a downpayment, and tell them they can buy a house in one of the most affluent parts of the country — say, in Northern Virginia, just outside the nation's capital.

Buying Too Much House — It's well - known that Warren Buffet lives in the same modest home he purchased many years ago.

Buyers understand that lending requirements have tightened in the years following the housing boom, when even borrowers of modest means regularly bought homes without putting any money down, she said.

«Just as we are beginning to see modest signs of improvement in scattered housing markets across the nation where employment is gaining and consumer confidence is rising, Congress is tampering with g - fees and needlessly raising the cost of buying a home.

Recently, a Los Angeles woman explained to me at a seminar how she had been trying to buy a modest condo or maybe a small house.

I stood outside a modest brick semi that might be in my price range and was reminded of that little house I bought in Petersham.