I have no use for a big house, I love my small apartment and I love my status car!

triple that bottom number for california

Why you gotta come at me like that?

Sounds like someones been reading rich dad poor dad, :thumbsup

I'd like to have both, a big house and an expensive car.

(Mercedes C 230 V6, 39 month lease @ $ 299.-/mo. Can't beat that, it needs almost no gas)

I knew a guy that lived in a little shitty apartment for about 1 year while his $2 million dollar custom home was being built.

ok who has been bumping old threads again...

Parents that buy their kids nice cars make me sick.

Mostly out of jealousy.

I laugh at you laughing at those people.

:1orglaugh


But yes, it is pretty silly...

I drive a Lambo and live in a shack with no running water. Chicks love it. They say that I'm "eccentric"

over 20 years, you'd pay 300k interest on a 250K loan (thats the figures I worked out a few months ago)
if you payed 200 p/w rent for 52wks x 20 years that equals 200K. If you saved like you would have paid a mortgage ($250pw x 52wk x 20) thats $260k in savings, not including interest, dividends or money made from investments.
With that you can argue rent going up (like I could say interest rate going up), inflation, a property boom etc. you could also include the 3-6% a year your property will go up (some are going up higher right now, but they're the ones you can't afford to buy now anyway), and I could argue shire rates and their steady increase, property upkeep etc,

Fuck status

I love Porsches because they represent the very best in quality, not becasue I give a flying fuck what some gold digging wench thinks of me.

Anyone here ever heard of..........Le Mans?

or Nuburgring 24 hours? it's where peices of shit don't last 2 hours:1orglaugh

"status" at those races is irrelevant...quality isn't.:2 cents:

So true. Fuck them! :disgust

I laugh at people who drive status cars but are in major debt

Yup that's how I see it also, totally agree with you on that one.
That counts for most areas, atleast where I live .... prices don't really skyrocket here.

I'm renting a house, so I guess I'm not allowed to have a sweet ride huh :)
Well I'm renting mainly because I like to move every 3-4 years hehe

who are forced to live in shitty place because of the payments they need to make for their status car are idiots ... those that choose to live in a (small) rental crib aren't by default idiots

It's actually "Nürburgring", but you are right, once you've driven a Bimmer, a Porsche, or a Mercedes you know what quality is, and safety too.

A couple of weeks ago I saw an old geezer in a 1974 Diesel Mercedes in a parking lot. He'd bought it new in `75 and has been driving it ever since.

You don't see Lexus' or Coyotas driving around from the seveties.

To me, it depends on what you want or need more. I live in an older house that we are renting, and getting ready to build. The new house will be 3 story on a mesa over looking the coast line. Should come about to about 4500 sq ft. So, we have not gotten a new car in some time. I still have my 2002 truck. We have to pay cash for the house, so saving is important

If you do not have familly, you may have a car better than the house, but when you have one, this is the family that you have to care about so buy a good house and fuck the car.

The thing is if you spend all your $'s on a sports car you won't really enjoy that car I think! I could mortgage my home and buy the best new lambo or something but I'd be shitting myself everytime I drove it in case i scratch the paint!

I love my car but I thrash it on the road and on the track! yea I will lose money on it and possibly write it off but fuck it whats the point in having a high performance car if you are just going to polish the fucking thing all day?!

Yeah but you're a homosexual pretending to be a straight player. Your vote don't count. Sorry. Thanks for playing though..

WTF is better than a Civic? VTEC 4 Life!!! :thumbsup

Laugh all you want but you and your shiny BMW will be crying at the gas pump within a few years..

Yep I totaly agree, I couldn't see myself living in a house when I was not married, no point really. Too much upkeep for a single guy. Downtown condo's are the way to go for a single guy.

Then once you're married get a house cause you need the extra space as the condo gets way too crowded with two people living in it.

Who bumped yet another classic DJ thread?

You know as well as I do that 400SQ Feet is not uncommon in Toronto and can actually cost you up to 2k a month in rent, if its in the right building!

dang where do you live? up where i live nice house 2.5 million.
in vancouver 250k can buy you a nice garage

...lol well it's all about the car sometimes!! :pimp

And this is where your money should go.
All of us here have their own preference and nobody should question that.

You guys are way too judgemental.

life is about quality not quantity.

Secondly, if you do the math, there is a line at about the 13-18 year mark where owning property outweighs renting for the same value. If you're young and don't plan on renting for more than half of that time then it makes FAR FAR FAR more financial sense not to tie your life up in repayments on property.

As far as cars go, most people with `status` cars have some business interest and there would be putting it through their business. Done properly, a car lease will end up costing you *LESS* than if you were to buy it outright (10-20% less after your negotiated price).

Times change. Keep up oldies!

one fiddy....

A House is like a wife.
House = Commitment. Maybe he isn't into a commitment for longer than 6 years.

A friend of mine used to live in of a Winnebago and towed an Aston Martin behind it. That was it, he didn't have a home at all. I had a 3-bed house in London. The thing is that we were always working in different places around the UK and Europe and actually lived out of hotels for eleven months a year. So when we had a break, I got on a plane to fly "home" while he looked at a map and went touring.

It never struck me that my conventional arrangement was particularly sensible in those circumstances, especially when it came to the ease with which he could play the residency loopholes to keep his tax bill down :)

Exactly! Morons!

My house in Phoenix was close to an apartment complex and I remember being stunned at the cars coming out of there. If you can afford a $60k BMW, you can afford a $200k house in Phoenix. The value of the car will drop no matter what where as the value of the house will rise.

And when I saw this thread I thought about this.

But after giving this some thought, I too was one of those. When I was 25 I bought a 1995 Ford Mustang GT. It was way out of my price range and I struggled to keep it. In fact, it lead me into bankruptcy. The condo I was living in - in Danville California - was for sale at the time. If I had bought the condo instead of the car I would have been sitting sweet.

Live and learn!

Yeah I love punishing my car too. I would hate having to worry about small things like scratches in the paint on a high priced car.

BMW 318i are not that expensive.

I love some of the replies in this thread, like this one :1orglaugh

what if someone likes the car for what it is, not just for status?... what if it's their hobby ? I got bmw not because i want everyone to look at me, it's a damn nice machine (go test drive one and see for yourself)... but I agree, house is more important ...:pimp

The idiot that started this thread doesnt even own a washer and dryer.