On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 08:02:44 -0400, "Nancy Young" >
wrote:

>> On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 19:03:06 -0400, "Nancy Young" >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> blake murphy wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 22:55:04 -0400, Nancy Young wrote:
>>>
>>>>> The guideline I went by was don't get a mortgage more than 1 1/2
>>>>> times your annual income. 2 times was stretching it. Whatever, at
>>>>> least you knew not to go house shopping in the expensive part of
>>>>> town thinking you could get it for no money down.
>>>
>>>> because no bank would give it to you. in the recent past, they did.
>>>
>>> I would not have gone for that. Simple as that. I specifically made
>>> sure I didn't buy too much house.
>>>
>> You also had experience, which first time buyers don't.
>
>Are you saying I was never a first time buyer?
>
I'm saying the guidelines were a lot stricter when we bought our first
homes.


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