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13. If they can't buy a house, they will make the rental "livable". That's what we did when we boomers couldn't afford ...

Reply to IbogaProject (Reply #12)

Mon Jun 16, 2025, 09:30 AM

Jun 16

... to own. Which I couldn't, until I was almost 50. We bought a house in a town in Nebraska everyone else was moving out of in the '91 for $17,000. When we moved six years later after making it nice, we got $15,000 for it. Just enough to down pay for our condo in Marble Falls. The majority of every generation has not owned their homes.

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Sounds like a scam to me, too. marble falls Jun 16 #9

One I saw in Middletown, NY IbogaProject Jun 16 #12

If they can't buy a house, they will make the rental "livable". That's what we did when we boomers couldn't afford ... marble falls Jun 16 #13

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