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Old 09-25-2008, 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted by ItsJustMe View Post
I wish. The thing that gets me is DH and I were approved for over $500,000 to buy a house 3 years ago. We knew our payment would be more then we could afford so we passed and continued to rent. Why don't they give some money to the poeple that didn't nail their a@^es to the wall.
That's a good point. We passed on buying a different house too. . .we would have had to do an interest only loan in order to qualify for the hefty price tag. We said "no thanks". I really wanted that house too. . .but we knew it was unrealistic no matter how many people were telling us is could be done.
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