Swifty

[Halon]

Affording a house by yourself, at this age, is not an easy thing when coming right out of college. I bought my house when I was just about to turn 24, but I had zero college debt (thanks military), and had money saved up as the military is basically a paying full time job, lived with and I happened upon a job with a LOT of travel that payed very well. I lived with my dad for awhile until I had even more money saved up. Then I got a houseNot the nicest house, but a house. And having a roommate makes a huge difference.

Part of me thinks back now, if I would have just stayed with my dad and saved up for a 2 more years (put aside the same amount of money I've been paying on my mortgage/property tax), and man, I'd have somewhere around 1/4 of my house paid off already...