re: #139 Targetpractice

If you could pay off your first house with just your annual salary in 5 years or less, then it could be seen as an “investment” towards a larger house when you were more financially secure and had designs on raising a larger family or more room for (as St. Carlin would say) “more stuff.” But if you’re either far enough along in life that you’re never gonna pay off that mortgage or you’re making so little that you’re barely able to make the payments, then it’s not an “investment” it’s a prison sentence.

It took my parents closer to 30 years to pay off the house. Just sayin’.