Where are you all? lol... Nice days past couple of weeks you all driving?

 

Been at home taking care of my daughter (8 weeks old on friday)... took a LOA from work for 2 months so I could be with her... It has been beautiful driving weather so I have been taking her out so she can learn to appreciate a car ride (I don't think it's possible to do that in my wife's Forester :P ). It looks like the weather is supposed to hold for a couple of days so get out and enjoy it, before the gray comes back

 

Yep - driving like crazy

Actually, sold my house, bought a new one and I have been packing

 

Polar opposite here.

With gas as $3 a gallon I havent been driving (except to work).

Trying to save for my first house.

 

Saving for a house is pointless.... odds are you won't be able to put down enough to make a significant dent in your payments, and while you are saving interest rates are rising thus negating any difference. Also don't forget about the annual tax savings that home ownership provides

 

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Getting divorced.

 

Dayam Serious?

Mutual? or bad breakup?

 

Sorry to hear that.

Don't let her have the car!

 

No she decided she wanted a divorce just before I found out she had an affair... I would've wanted then. And hell NO!!!! she's not getting the car.

 

I'm around, but the rx8 nw forum isn't very lively so I hardly check anything in here anymore.

 

Don't stop saving for the house. You will be far ahead of this guy ^ with the way he thinks.

 

If you locked in your interest rate now, it wouldn't be a problem.

 

...and he could lock a rate with my WIFE who is a loan officer!

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Hardly... on my second house now, put no money down on the first and walked with ~85000 profit after three years, just saying that it would take (me at least) far to long to save anything that will make any meaningful impact on your monthly mortgage savings or buying power. While I could have waited for the money to SLOWLY accumulate in my savings account. In my case it was a far better investment to live in a house that certainly wasn't in the best neighborhood to make the profit that I did. IMHO it's better to sacrafice in the begining in order to get what you want later. Of course this is just me... keep saving and maybe you will end up far ahead of me, you never know.

 

Everyone told me to get a house early and I did, its definatley a starter (being classified as a condo) but i hope when I go for the house I actually want I might of built some equity or something cuz buying houses suck *** right now, WAY too expensive.