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Oy. Cats are going bonkers. Time to fill up the water gun and take aim. Nite folks 🙂
That’s crazy, Pete, you were paying more in rent than my folks were paying for a HOUSE. What year did you move in at Clinton Street?
1967, 15 year mortgage, with 50% down. Crazy, isn’t it?
you probably didn’t have projects out in the countryside. lots of kids went to school with lived in projs, my sister-in-law, good friends today. Many have been quite successful. others not so much.
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My parents mortgage for a small brownstone here in Cobble Hill was $75/mo. for 15 years. Makes me wanna cry!
crazytown. serious question, what was going in the real estate market in 1986? maybe 1987? my grandfather who had a decent job (making almost more than i do now btw) could not get a loan from the bank to buy a house that (okay, tell me if this stat makes no sense.. 4000 dollars? it was in union city, NJ area). is that possible? maybe he had to put down 4000 dollars dollars? i dont know, but i remember it was the only time they ever attempted to buy a house and were rejected. i dont think HE had bad credit at all and had a decent income at the time. (and yes his income didnt count for our projects apartments cuz he technically didnt live with us, he lived at his job during the week and his permanent address was a trailer on the job site). just curious if those figures are legit for that time in the real estate market, northern NJ. sounds awfully low, even for a down payment? of course i was only a kid at the time so maybe im not remembering it all correctly.
sucks cuz he really really DID want to buy a house. GRRRR i could have a HOUSE PAID FOR RIGHT NOW! tho with NJ propertt taxes, i’d still be broke every month lol and pay less in park slope rent than most people pay in jersey for property taxes!
i hate thinking about this stuff.
dinnertime
*rob*
“y’all frontin – if i win i’m gonna be straight ballin”
I love it when white finance guys talk all gangsta
SHIT! Forgot to buy powerball ticket. Think the ticket sales shut down at 9pm 🙁
$75 a month? what year did they buy?
I had a RS apt on clinton st for $175 (studio). maybe up to $200 when I moved.
No initiation for the RMLC. DIBS and I had extremely different visions of what an initiation might look like so we decided to just require three letters of recommendation from existing members and leave it at that.