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pisica, we are pikers!
from Joe Haldeman's Live Journal
Gay and I have a slight but measurable chance of doing something along those lines. A small house went up for sale only a block away, just over the city line. I guess it's on the order of a hundred grand, maybe less. It would have room for tens of thousands of books. (And a cool office.)
We're already renting storage space for 5000+ books, which is a couple of hundred a month and just evaporates, no equity. At 4.5%, a 30-year mortgage on $100,000 is $507 a month. So it's roughly twice the payment to store those books, plus a few thousand of the ones hanging around the house, and get me a nice little office in the bargain. Maybe a backup guest bedroom.
But it's kind of nice, living without a mortgage.
Gay and I have a slight but measurable chance of doing something along those lines. A small house went up for sale only a block away, just over the city line. I guess it's on the order of a hundred grand, maybe less. It would have room for tens of thousands of books. (And a cool office.)
We're already renting storage space for 5000+ books, which is a couple of hundred a month and just evaporates, no equity. At 4.5%, a 30-year mortgage on $100,000 is $507 a month. So it's roughly twice the payment to store those books, plus a few thousand of the ones hanging around the house, and get me a nice little office in the bargain. Maybe a backup guest bedroom.
But it's kind of nice, living without a mortgage.