Ahne and Syed approach would have been good to follow in buying a house over the past few years: one could not have bought, and hence avoided the crash in prices and loss of everything.

My limited information indicates that, over the past 100 years, a house does not, on average, qualify as an investment. Buying or renting, housing is an expense.

Louis Hart

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It's a great method, pay for it first, but really hard to do when buying
a house.  Save up $200k+ while renting at $1k+/month?  Not so easy.
Also hard to do for college, unless if ones parents want to dole out
that kind of dough.

Shawn Upton, KB1CKT
Test Engineer
Allegro MicroSystems, Inc
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