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To: Road Walker who wrote (298941)	8/9/2006 10:17:30 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576109

The trick is to afford an expensive asset ... Aye, that is the trick. It reminds me of Steve Martins guide to making a million dollars and not pay taxes ... First make a million dollars! I think the most important part of that trick is to stay out of debt early. Before we bought our first house my wife and I lived in a series of absolute dumps. One I recall had the bathroom floor completely rotted away and the toilet was perched in the open hole on top of the sewer pipe as if on a pedistal. A carpet remnant kept the breeze from blowing up through the floor and there was a board laid across the chasm approach to the throne. We had friends living in nicer apartments, but we paid $50 month for the whole place and put several hundred a month away. In a couple of years the right combination of savings and opportunity got us into a tidy little home with a cement floor and a big yard.