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02-21-2022, 02:31 PM | #67 |
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I am going to be a PhD student in the fall, and I rent an apartment only because I don't know where I will permanently stay yet. I purchased my G82 with a portion of my money invested in stocks over my undergraduate study. To be honest with you, my biggest regret was buying my first car instead of saving the cash for more opportunities. Cars are the worst investment, ever. If the cost of your next car would exceed 50%+ of your savings, I would suggest saving it for the down payment of a house with that money or invest it somewhere else.
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Just curious how a home in Cali can sell for $1.4, have $200k added in pool, etc and then sell for 'only $1.8' after 15 years. I thought every home in Cali was doubling every 7-10 years over the past couple of decades (2008 bubble excepted)...
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I'm with those who say get a house first. You love cars; I get it. But do you want a lifetime of nice cars or just a lifetime with this one G82? If you want a lifetime of nice cars, that comes only with smart financial decisionmaking.
Make it to where your future self will thank you, not lament you.
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Renter here, and I always laugh at people that try to have this discussion with me. I'm not getting a car like this as an appreciable asset. Life is uncertain and short. My current circumstances and responsibilities allow me to indulge myself a little. In 10-15 years I may be much more financially secure, but may also have dramatically different responsibilities that would inhibit me owning a car like this.
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Mortgage + car payment only $1750? Either you're living in a cardboard box, or... oh, ok, Central Florida. Checks out
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10-15% gross monthly income rule for your car, car insurance and fuel. 28% gross monthly income rule for your mortgage, insurance, and property tax. So, if you can afford to spend $2000/mo on your car, then you should be able to afford almost $4000/mo on a home. On a 30 year fixed jumbo at 4%, including PMI and property taxes etc, that's a $600k-$700k home. Take this with a grain of salt, as everyone's situation is different, but it's a good ballpark figure for being financially secure. You might want to spend a bit more on your car if you don't eat out, for example.
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I run a little different than most people on this thread. I spent 20 years in the military. I thought it was a good idea, at the time, when you don't know what you want to do.
I ended up retiring, about 10 years ago, from that, and now I'm onto my second career. I spent 10 years married, and another 10 recovering from a divorce. Now, 15 years after getting divorced, I'm finally living my better life. Son, graduated from HS, last year and is onto college, I'm on my 3rd brand new house. I live in California, albeit in the Sacramento area, houses still aren't cheap. $600k-$700k in my neighborhood. My 3rd brand new house, will be 5 years old, next week and I live on a 1/3rd acre, in a 5 bedroom 3 bath, close to 3K sq 1 story. I'm closer to $200k a year and than I am to $150k, but it's taken into my mid 40s to get here. Kids, divorce, child support, etc. Everyone has a different path, but my only suggestion is attempt to make as many calculated decisions as possible. Do you have any idea where you want to be in the kid department? 32 is semi late to be starting a family, if you're not even married. Where do you want to be with that? I plan on retiring in the next 10 years, and currently sock 14% away into my retirement accounts. I also have a military retirement, full medical, and I'm 80% service connected. So, that's about $3,700 a month retirement, that I already have coming to me, before any of my income is included. I use that for house and cars, and my regular income is what I live, invest and stack my other retirement accounts with. Everyone's avenue is different. Without kids and marriage figured out. You're stacking car debt on top of house debt without deciding on the most expensive decision, which is marriage and kids. Get your bottom heavy decisions figured out so, your Jenga puzzle of life, doesn't come toppling down.
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To be clear you always have areas that gain ground. For example an area in San Diego called Leucadia has seen amazing growth over the last 30 years. That is only because it went from meth houses to the in and trendy spot to live because it was one of the last areas where you could get acreage on the coast. In reality these are outliers though. Look at the cycles on average houses and the peaks in cycles have only been 10-15% higher. |
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A point no one else has mentioned.
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House first for sure. If you are smart with your mortgage and house size you could have a large portion of the house paid off in 8 years depending on where you live, your down payment, your income and how aggressively you pay it down. Plus interest rates will be rising so depending on the rate you can negotiate you can lock in some payment certainty as well.
If you need to move for work you could sell and get the equity out or rent. I have always enjoyed fast manual transmission cars but hold off on something like the G80 until you get some equity (market or real estate) and a disciplined savings plan in place. Until then buy a lower cost manual sports car and enjoy it.
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The last time I rented I drove a Honda Civic DX. I personally wouldn't and didn't spend significant money on a car until I owned my house outright.
I know the desire for nice cars. I've wanted an M3 for decades but I waited until all the relevant factors lined up because they were more important for financial prosperity
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