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22% of gross at maximum, though it fluctuates somewhat since my work is project-based.
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About 25% of net.Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi Wan's apprentice.Comment
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Friendship Heights. Maybe Van Ness. U Street prices are now outrageous, unless you want to be the vanguard of gentrification. Chinatown prices will knock your socks off.Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
Wheer are we talking about? Friendship Heights? Van Ness? U Street? Those would all work. But I confess, I'd love to be in the revived downtown; Chinatown in particular would rock. I just don't see it happening on a bureaucrat's salary, though.
Whereas it used to be that downtown prices were less than upper NW and suburban prices, that situation has reversed. The way it is now makes more sense from an economic perspective, but it was the opposite for a long, long time (always?).I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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31% gross for my studio in seattle"I hope I get to punch you in the face one day" - MRT144, Imran Siddiqui
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Rent 1 bedroom apartment, around 25% of gross. It was a few points higher last year, but when I recently renewed my lease, I asked if they had any deals, and they lowered my rent!
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About 10% of combined gross personal income for housing, plus about 10% of my business gross income for separate office rent.When all else fails, blame brown people. | Hire a teen, while they still know it all. | Trump-Palin 2016. "You're fired." "I quit."Comment
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We pay about 30% gross for the mortgage on our spacious townhome. However, I'm still working my way up in the company so hopefully it will be dropping soon.In the beginning the Universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas AdamsComment
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32% of take home, including all bills ( and the damnable council tax) for a sweet place in the lungs of londonSafer worlds through superior firepowerComment
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After rent, Council tax is about 2.5%, leccy 1%, TV licence 0.4% and that's it for outgoings.
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I increased my mortgage payments so that it now represents about 30% of my net pay.
This does not include my wife's income or taxes and insurance.
Its also far more than we need to pay. I believe our REQUIRED payments would be more like 18% om my income-- ( but we will own our house in 10 years)You don't get to 300 losses without being a pretty exceptional goaltender.-- Ben Kenobi speaking of Roberto LuongoComment
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Originally posted by Flubber
I increased my mortgage payments so that it now represents about 30% of my net pay.
This does not include my wife's income or taxes and insurance.
Its also far more than we need to pay. I believe our REQUIRED payments would be more like 18% om my income-- ( but we will own our house in 10 years)
Took me 7 years to pay mine off. I was putting like 70% in.. Maybe a little less, I never figured it out.
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I have freinds who rent at 60+% of their salary. And my freinds dont' live in DC, but in Prince Georges County. (College Park, mostly)
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You own a house?? You should definitely be getting laid more..Originally posted by Dis
Took me 7 years to pay mine off. I was putting like 70% in.. Maybe a little less, I never figured it out.
Oh and I would never put 70% of my income into anything in a given year--- Diversify!! I have approximately 20% of my net being put aside in investments and another 5% of net being put aside for my children.You don't get to 300 losses without being a pretty exceptional goaltender.-- Ben Kenobi speaking of Roberto LuongoComment
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I don't think chicks are impressed with the fact that I own a house.
I can't drive around with my house. I'd rather have a hot car.
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If I spent the amount of money I spent on my house on a car, I might get laid.
. err, probably not.
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