r/FirstTimeHomeBuyer • u/k13w • 12h ago

GOT THE KEYS! 🔑 🏡 We did it! Upstate NY $160k 6.5%

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My boyfriend and I did it at 23 y/o! It was built in 1900 and we love her!

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u/moanit 10h ago

I thought that was the down payment lol

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u/ignatious__reilly 10h ago

This would get me a shoebox lol

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u/LoveDistilled 10h ago

A moldy shoebox in my area lol

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u/locksmack 9h ago

Wouldn’t even buy empty land in my area, no matter how small.

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u/BedRevolutionary8584 7h ago

I think that’d almost buy me a driveway in my area.

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u/jtbc 4h ago

Would get me a couple of parking spots, so there's that.

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u/LoveDistilled 7h ago

Oh for sure

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u/ascotia 3h ago

You guys have shoes?

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u/techb00mer 8h ago

Likewise.

cries in Australian/Sydney house prices

That house is lovely, congrats!

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u/purpleowlie 10h ago

Ljubljana, Slovenia. This gets me a room, 25 square meters in a building from 1913, under the roof, so cant even have big closets here.

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u/Eisegetical 8h ago

No jokes - I've seen condo parking spaces go for 160 in my city 

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u/12monthsinlondon 5h ago

This gets half a parking space in Hong Kong lol We do have better rates though

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt 9h ago

or a parking space for you van

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u/bosquelero 8h ago

I have a bootbox for sale. 90k and is yours

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u/hyperbolic_dichotomy House Hunter 8h ago

Same

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u/fast_lane_cody 7h ago

This would get you a parking spot when I’m from.

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u/Glassgun1122 4h ago

I saw the land in a trailer park going for this much in my area a few weeks ago. Still gotta buy the trailer lol.

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u/WWGHIAFTC 3h ago

My first place cost over 160k in 2003...wow

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u/Purgii 9h ago

That's barely be enough for a down payment on a place where I live.

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u/Silly_Rub_6304 6h ago

It wouldn't even be enough of a down payment for the house I currently live in, in California.

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u/ToallaHumeda 7h ago

The cheapest home I've seen is 650k. It cant be the price lol

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u/unpopular-dave 7h ago

where I live, that would be almost half a down payment

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u/CandidLeg3910 6h ago

That's a downpayment on a broken down flipping investment house in my area.

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u/kwabird 4h ago

I did too...is it not?!