What have you purchased recently?

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[Izuno]

[-HP-]

No way, you bought a house? In LA? Where exactly?

[syver]

looks great! congratulations

[Froyok]

:monocle:

[Seldoon182]

Perfect garage to seed a startup! Gratz

[Izuno]

Yeah it's still in LA just in a better family oriented area since we already have 1 kid and are thinking about #2 soon. Housing market has been in the ditch for so long and with rates so incredibly low we finally realized we had enough equity built up to buy a decent sized house in an area with good schools.

Aside from a 3-banger garage (omg awesome) the previous owner had ethernet wired through the entire house so you can go wired or wireless in every room!!! even in the loo!

[-HP-]

That's so whicked man! Settling down like a bawss!

[Puddy]

You americans and your houses!

Nice and congrats!

[KoKo5oVaR]

Landlord pimpin' fresh !!!! congrats :]

[ElectroSheep]

Wow, that's cool

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Izuno wins the thread.

[Izuno]

lol only took a house!

Yeah we American's and our houses. LA is a messed up place for real estate. We were lucky in that my wife and I bought in to a condo cheap years ago and when the market finally crashed we managed to stay above water cause we were very cautious with money and tried to save a lot. So we sold it and had a lot of equity to put into a house plus additional savings. For example, we also were very prudent with not buying expensive cars and keeping what we drove for a long time (i'm on year 7 of my cheap volvo s40 and plan to keep it another few).

The point for you guys who are getting to the age of family and real estate: do not over buy and don't treat your house like a piggy bank (ie don't plan to borrow against equity). And when you get into a house, do not underestimate how big your initial expenses will be, then the recurring expenses. Hopefully most of you living in the US will be buying into cheaper areas (I hear many parts of Texas around Dallas are cheaper and high value for the money vs. most of LA.)

Anyway, other things we had to purchase include which is actually the budget version of a 60" Samsung that we loved but cost over $2500...so we had to settle for a cheaper 55" with less features to save money.

Samsung UN55EH6000 55-Inch 1080p 120 Hz LED HDTV (Black)

[knj]

Yeah L.A. is expensive as fuck, but still OMFG soo cool dude, gratz for you and your wife !!]

[Puddy]

so we had to settle for a cheaper 55" with less features to save money.

Samsung UN55EH6000 55-Inch 1080p 120 Hz LED HDTV (Black)

sorry to hear man... that screen is miniscule