Sentences with phrase «nearly afford their houses»

Nor that it was founded on the flawed premise that most homeowners facing foreclosure could very nearly afford their houses and just needed a tweak to their mortgage terms.

Not exact matches

We can't afford to have «god» back in the white house because the last time nearly killed us

Nearly half of Massachusetts» community college students and a third in the state colleges and universities can not afford consistent access to food and housing.

I nearly tore apart the house the other day in a fit of rage when I saw that my payment amount mysteriously increased for no reason at all from a payment I would have been able to make to one that I will not be able to afford.

If for example your Mortgage plus taxes and insurance ends up running around say $ 1450 a month, plus another $ 150 for the HOA, well then, that's charging yourself $ 1600 a month for your «rent» which means $ 1000 per month going into the bank, in two years that's nearly the same as what you have now in the $ 401K, and you'd have a really good idea if you can afford that much per month in housing costs.

Not if you don't succumb to all the overpriced, «treadmill - enabling», external markers of success - fancy houses, cars, schools, vacations and «stuff» that you can't really afford, that you don't really need nearly as much as the guy in the next cubicle says that you do.

One reason why the housing bubble burst nearly a decade ago was because too many consumers bought homes they couldn't afford in the long run.

Meanwhile, nearly 39 million households can't afford their housing, according to a report out this summer from the Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Shousing, according to a report out this summer from the Harvard's Joint Center for Housing SHousing Studies.

During the 2005 - 2006 housing bubble, it took nearly 36 percent of the median income to afford a home, as home prices and mortgage rates were higher.