• themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    My first home was 400k in 2019

    That’s not a HCOL area, unless you’re talking about a 2 bed, 1 bath condo in a shitty school district.

    And most states won’t give you $20k and 0% loans unless it’s a farm or VA loan.

    Lastly, mortgage rates were 4% in 2019. Today, it’s 7.5%. Getting 0% over twenty years is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, but just the difference between rates then and rates now is almost $1,000 a month.