Re: Jihad needs scientists

In article <9857e$45761fc1$4fe7071$17377@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
   unsettled <unsettled@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Lloyd Parker wrote:
<snip>

>>>>You can be cash poor after buying a house though
>>>>and finding all the things that urgently need doing to make it
>>>>habitable.
>
>>>sure.  But you aren't poor and all your "rent" is going into
>>>your real estate pocket.  I didn't buy a house until I was
>>>told my rent was going up.  So I went out and bought a house
>>>where the monthly payments were less than my current rent.
>
>> I betr you saved up for a down payment though.
>
>It doesn't sound like she did.

I simply don't remember.  All I remembeer is that were 
a lot of checks moving back and forth over that table. :-)

> It doesn't sound as though
>buying a house was in her plans.

It wasn't.  I only bought it because the rent was cheaper.
I was more interested in getting my work done.

> I can say for a fact I didn't.
>I got into my first house ($50K) with $1K of my own. Let's
>just say that the seller and the realtor were both very
>motivated.

I was very used to moving every semester from being in college.
I had no "settling down" genes like the rest of my family.
I still don't have curtains up on the windows :-).  I've
just recently started "decorating" the inside of the house.

/BAH