flea

Unfortunately, when we looked at buying right before I found out I was pregnant, the (well-recommended) mortgage people we talked to were not interested in giving us anywhere near what the monthly payment on that house would be. It's not the down payment that's the big hurdle for us - mr. flea used to have a well-paying job, and we'd been saving with a house in mind - it's the monthly. Even dual income, last year we earned little enough to qualify for the Looniversity's low income buy-a-house support for a single person. So, if we wanted to buy a not dissimilar house - though renovated on the cheap, corporately, in a much less fancy neighborhood (only 6 blocks away), we could do so for like $109K. (That last is just to shock MakaiDiver!)