Sentences with phrase «still afford a house»

Could you still afford a house?

In Cleveland, you could earn $ 22,000 a year and still afford a house, but in San Francisco, you need to earn six times that — $ 125,072.

Not exact matches

Still, the housing market's recovery remains slow, in part because many Americans lack the credit to qualify for a mortgage or can't afford the larger down payments now required.

You can still go back and you can look on the Zillow blog and see posts that I wrote, and Stan, who by this point had become our chief economist, wrote about how it was obvious, in our opinion, that housing was going to crash and that it was built on the foundation of sand and there was too much easy credit that had allowed people to buy homes who really couldn't afford them.

AND, I still can go out for nice dinners, go to sporting events, go on a week or two of vacation each year, go to shows, have nice clothes for work and casual events, drive a decent car, and afford home improvement projects on my house.

Picture this: You're running specials every week on Facebook, discounting your 3 - day in - house nutritional counseling program more than you can afford, but still, no one is buying your amazing anti-aging weight - loss product.

Stoke is the sort of place a Reynolds could afford a house and still hope to see beauty.

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.

Still, here we can afford to provide a generous salary to someone who needs a job at the same time that we get the kind of help we need in a house with no washing machine or dishwasher and a screaming baby and active preschooler.

«I commend Mayor de Blasio for putting forth a comprehensive plan to create more affordable housing at a time when so many New York families still struggle to make ends meet and afford to stay here.

With 60,000 homeless New Yorkers, many already working a full - time job and still unable to afford housing, those are stark odds.

On the topic of affordable housing, Rhodes said he has spoken with many people in the community who were offered good jobs but still had a hard time finding housing they could afford.

Your house and clothing are gorgeous, I'm sure you do well financially as a photographer and get discounts and freebies via the blog but I'm still left scratching my head as to how one can afford such a nice lifestyle?

«But I still couldn't afford to move out of my parents» house.»

Finally, cost remained a major barrier for low - income students even in the absence of tuition fees: many still struggled to afford necessary expenses for food, housing, books, and transportation.

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

The house she still lives in with the kids is in a good school district, even if it does cost $ 1,600 a month, which at her present rate of cash flow she will no longer be able to afford come June, unless Mr. Reginald Webster or somebody or anybody buys something.

No one can predict exactly where the housing market is heading, but if you get an ARM, ask yourself if you could still afford the payments if the loan resets.

Even if you can afford the monthly payments, you'll still be attached to your student loan debt for years, being unable to undertake projects like starting your own business or buying a house due to the fact that no large amount loan will be available until you finish paying off your student loans.

If a family can get a house they can afford under today's conditions, it would be a shame if they missed out on that opportunity based on a guess that prices or rates might move lower still!

Sure, you could get a reverse mortgage but the fees are high and you are still living in a house that you can't afford.

Only buy as much house as you can afford and still be able to save money so you can invest in equity markets.

This means that if you can not afford to stay in the house, the lender must look seriously at allowing you to sell the house yourself whilst you are still living there.

The days when lenders encouraged customers to take interest - only loans to buy houses they normally couldn't afford are over, but interest - only mortgages are still available, including these:

If we had continued our spending mindset and kept buying useless junk, we probably would be in a house we couldn't afford, paying the bank huge fees on credit card interest, and still making the many money mistakes we made prior.

In fact, with a housing crisis still rampant many homeowners with high cost monthly mortgage payments that don't have credit or mortgage life insurance protection may be putting their families at risk for bankruptcy or years of interest payments on a home loan they can't afford.

But she noted that it's key that someone could still afford to be in the house going forward.

The share of income needed to afford a typical home is still low relative to both the housing bubble years (2000 - 2007) and more normal times (1985 - 2000), when the typical household would need to spend 20 to 25 percent of their income on a mortgage, but it's quickly worsening.

You should still get preapproved before you house shop, make sure your credit history is accurate, check your credit score and evaluate how much home you can afford before you take the plunge.

The Real Life Ratio is a guide to how much house you can afford — and still meet these other important financial obligations.

Remember, he also still has his house, a car that he can't afford, and lives well above his means.

Although Campbell's hamsters (Phodopus campbelli) are one of the four dwarf hamsters, they still need a cage setup that is the largest you can afford to buy and keep in your house.

If you can't afford to pay an extra 10 % for construction costs, you could always reduce the size of your house by 10 % to still come in on budget.

«Because if you haven't seen a raise in a decade; if your house is still twenty - five thousand, thirty thousand dollars under water; if you're just happy that you've still got that factory job that is powered by cheap energy; if every time you go to fill up your old car because you can't afford to buy a new one, and you certainly can't afford to buy a Prius, you're spending forty bucks that you don't have, which means that you may not be able to save for retirement.»

Be grateful that you can still impress some people at parties, you can afford to pay the mortgage in your house in the suburbs and that on occasion, you can sit back and say to yourself that you helped solve someone's legal problem and felt good about it.

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.

He does not put his name on the house deeds, and he does not contribute to mortgage payments, I can still afford these on my own.

As an example, if you were to lose your job today, would your family still be able to afford the same house, the same car, and the same activities that they currently do without struggling financially?

Instead of focusing on real issues — stagnant wages and exploding student loans and the like — media outlets are touting the magnificent Millennial lifestyle «choices» like choosing experiences over stuff (note: they can't afford «stuff») and forgoing a house in favor of a «preference for urban locations with lots of entertainment and lifestyle choices» (note: a house is considered «stuff»; still can't afford it).

Leanne is sure her fiance will grow up once their baby is born (she's eight and a half months pregnant and he's still out snorting cocaine until the wee hours of the morning); Beth thought that her husband would have found work by now, but, nine years later, she is beginning to realize that despite his MBA and JD degrees, he has no intention of finding work — even when it means they will have to sell the house because they can't afford the mortgage.

Already, he has prodded one client's contractor to finish repairs, cleaned another's clogged gutter, and tiled a floor when still another had to list her house quickly but couldn't afford to hire help.

This data showed that a buyer can afford to pay 23 percent more for a new house than for one built before 1960 and still maintain the same amount of first year annual costs.

If we had to go get a minimum - wage job, we would still be able to afford to make our house payments.»

«Demand for housing remains under pressure with Americans still struggling to accumulate enough wealth to afford a home purchase.