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Mortgage Help In Ct

Question: How can someone with medium income buy a house in Southcentral CT?

Ok I am a first time home buyer, I have lived here for almost 4 years and just finally started to build my credit. The score is good, but my history is quite short. To the point I can hardly get a credit card. Anyhow, we are interested in buying a house here in the New Haven - Milford area but the houses are sky high in prices. We need a 3 bedroom and nothing decen goes less than 220K if not 250K. How in the world can someone with 40K income pull that off? This is very unmotivating. Will I be forced to rent for my life? I cannot afford a 1600 mortgage or more. The taxes are also ridiculous! But we really want to live in this area as I have a good job.

Answer: I know how you feel. Prices up here in NH are ridiculous too. If you want a really nice house with 3 + bedrooms that isn't older than dirt and is in a really nice area, you have to expect to pay AT LEAST $260,000 and UP. It's really hard for people like my husband and I who aren't rich and don't make tons of money per year. (I'm in social services and my hubby is self-employed, need I say more? lol). We just have come to realize that we're going to have to settle for a slight older home that may not be in the best area. We're just looking hard to find the best one that needs the least work and has room to add on to in the future, for when, if ever we have the money to do it. Also, look for foreclosure homes, we're doing that as well. Good luck!
We currently own a townhouse (our first home) that we're selling right now. We got it for really cheap three years ago and now are going to make a good profit off of it. So maybe that's something you could do - buy the cheapest townhouse/condo you can find, live there for a few years, and then sell it for a profit. That's what we're doing. We'll use our profit as a downpayment for a new single family house with some extra money for us and repairs.

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Obama Mortgage Relief 2009

Question: Does Obama Know What He's Doing?

The furor over the huge federal spending under President Obama - a $1.75 trillion deficit, 13 percent - obscures an even more basic question: Does he know what he is doing?

That is, does he know how to do anything other than spend?

His stimulus package, of course, took no special ability: He left the details to Democrats in Congress. But his two other major initiatives - his banking and mortgage-relief plans - are both flawed and unlikely to solve their respective problems.

Indeed, they're so wide of the mark as to prompt questions not of Obama's ideology but of his basic competence.

The bank-bailout plan seems to be largely stillborn. Having wished that the private sector would flock to invest in toxic assets if offered the right incentives, the Treasury secretary is still hoping. Crossing his fingers seems to have replaced effective policy in his planning.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/boggled_obama_can_president_ge.html

Answer: Barack Obama, and his liberal henchmen, are preparing the US for our transition into socialism. He knows that his ENORMOUS increase in GOVERNMENT spending will do nothing to stimulate our CAPITALIST, Business run, economy. He doesn't expect it to help businesses at all, he expects it to decrease the population's trust of our free market economy so that we will run to the Feds with our tails between our legs. Once our economy hits rock bottom, Messiah Obama will swoop in and "save us" with a "New new deal". Obama seeks the same power over our economy that his european counter-parts enjoy over theirs.
So yes, Obama knows exactly what he's doing.

America is not socialist and hopefully never will be.
We need to oust this would be tyrant ASAP

Speech at the Boston Tea Party April 15 2009 Boston

Housing Bubble In Australia

Question: Will neocons explain how Bill Clinton and Chris Dodd caused the housing bubble in Australia, UK, and France?

I've given them several weeks to weave a tale for this factoid.

They accused the mortgage meltdown on banks in the USA being forced to give $500K loans to poor people by Bill Clinton. Yet the same flip-this-house lending practices occurred throughout the globe.

Answer: I'm not a neocon, but it has been said that if the US economy sneezes, the world economy catches pneumonia. And we, conservatives, didn't say that the cause was giving $500k loans to poor people caused the meltdown. We said that the government, going back to Carter, caused the meltdown by requiring lending institutions to LOWER the standards for loaning money. What we said about the Clinton administration was that the justice department told lending institutions that they would be investigated if they didn't increase their minority held loans.

My thoughts on Australia's housing bubble