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Everyone had to buy a starter home. Avoiding a starter home will make home buying inaccessible
When rates come down, home values will likely go up accordingly. Houses are only this cheap because rates are as high as they are
Mentor
If rates drop, prices are bound to go up. Can you find a good starter home that gives you the opportunity to build out/expand instead of having to sell?
Coach
This is a little age-dependent for me, to be honest. If you're 20-30, 100% starter home. If you're closer to 40 with reliable and increasing income and some savings tucked away in other ways, I'd push it (but only to the limit of what you can service on income alone).
Coach
I live in westchester, you can definitely find a nice home for the amount of money you have saved up. That being said, why southern westchester? I find the northern parts of westchester a lot nicer.
Also there’s a lot of great private schools in westchester, so if you plan to send your kids to private schools location become more flexible.
We went the "future potential" route and bought a house that had space to build out/needed some work, its working fine while we saved more for renovations, we have been in our area since December 2020 and prices have only gone up
Subject Expert
Turns out everyone wants to live in a good school district, so prices tend to be higher. Who knew?!
You may want to look at the premium you would pay for buying in a good school district vs renting in that same district vs just paying the price of private school.
Also, when rates drop, prices tend to climb quickly, especially in good school districts, so waiting for rates to drop won’t help your affordability.
Mentor
At least buying in a good school district means the additional money you spend goes toward equity and not private school which is sunk cost.