Are You Considering Buying Your First Home?
When you graduated from college you had no idea that you would so quickly being paying attention to mortgage rates, down payments, and other adult sounding topics. The fact of the matter is, however, that the generous housing allowance your new employer is including in the benefits for the first year in this new part of the country you are actually considering buying a home. When you look at the low mortgage rates that are available for the kind of home that you are looking at and compare those numbers to the apartment rents in the area, a home purchase makes sense.
Common wisdom says that you should not consider purchasing a home if you are planning to move again in five years, but this is a location that you have always dreamed about and there are lots of opportunities for promotion in this first job, as well as plenty of other competitors in the area. In fact, the job prospects for your field are as high as any other career.
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