Posts Tagged "affordability"

City Comparisons

Posted by on Oct 1, 2009 in Blog, Home Affordability | 0 comments

My husband and I have recently been thinking of looking a little futher than our immediate neighborhood when it comes to purchasing a house. We talked about moving as far south as San Diego, but when we visited the city this summer, we didn’t quite feel the vibe. That’s important to us, the right vibe. Of course, it also has to be a city that we can afford to live in, with some decent stores and shops, perhaps some interesting history, a coffee shop or local Starbucks that I can...

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Discouraging Housing Signs

Posted by on Sep 28, 2009 in Blog, Home Affordability | 2 comments

Let me preface this post by saying that it’s been over 100-degrees every day for the past week, so this may be contributing to my negativity. With that said, the more I search the homes for sale, the more I think, “Why do I continue to live in Los Angeles?” I’ve been browsing multiple websites for both land and home sales and let me just say $275,000 doesn’t get you much of a house, or any house, for that matter. Earlier in the year, there seemed to be a much...

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How Should You Use A Home Affordability Calculator

Posted by on Sep 24, 2009 in Blog, Home Affordability | 0 comments

Samantha Taylor is a contributing Financial Writer, Moderator and Community Mentor of  MortgageFit. She has been an active participant in the forums wherein she offers mortgage advice and suggestions to people in loan problems. If you have a query on “how much house can I afford” related issues, you can simply discuss it with her in the Mortgage Forum. When you’re intending to purchase a new home of your choice, it is always better to work out the amount of money that you can...

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Little Houses in My Area

Posted by on Sep 23, 2009 in Blog, Little House Plans | 4 comments

This past weekend, I went hiking with my friend 8 miles west of where I live. Since I literally live in a valley, mountains surround me in all directions. One of my favorite hikes is 8 miles west of where I live, in the Santa Susana Mountains. It’s a quick loop hike, only about 4 miles long and I’ve been hiking it for the past 4 years. Getting there takes 20 minutes, but the scenery changes drastically as soon as I approach the base of the mountain. As I head west on a main street,...

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Choosing a neighborhood based on schools

Posted by on Sep 16, 2009 in Blog, Home Affordability | 1 comment

I don’t have kids yet, but I am enrolled in a teaching credential program and know how important it is to live near good schools. I have faith in the public education system, a definitely biased view due to my working in the public school district. With purchasing a house in the next several months on my brain, I realize that I not only need to find an affordable house in a neighborhood that I feel safe in, I also have to research the school’s in that neighborhood. On a side note,...

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