what is your rent/mortgage payment?

[LSK]

[skygazer]

1. I pay $885 a month

But that's extremely low for my area. I have a 3-bedroom cabin but from what I've seen, studios in the area start at around $1200. :hi:

[NewWaveChick1981]

2. $969 a month.

This is for a 2340 sq. ft. split level brick home in a great neighborhood, 4 bedrooms, 3 full baths, attached garage. Bought for $137,500 in 1998; the appraised value is now $200K. :)

The $969 includes taxes and insurance. :)

[huskerlaw]

3. About $1400

for a small 2-bedroom apartment.

And I'm extremely lucky. There's an apartment next door for rent right now... $1400 for a one-bedroom (and even that is somewhat cheap for the area).

[AlCzervik]

4. $1200 a month and it's a regular boring 15 year fixed rate mortgage.

thank (insert deity of my choice here).

[Gormy Cuss]

44. How can you sleep at night!!!??!!!

Boring fixed rate is nice, isn't it?
What I like about a 15-year is that so much of the payment goes straight to the principal

[AlCzervik]

50. yup, 7 1/2 years to go!

[Maine-ah]

5. 670 includes my taxes and insurance.

[Shell Beau]

6. About $1200

[texanwitch]

7. I pay $600 a month, sometimes more because I want to pay off the house.

I bought the house with the G.I. Bill.

[IndianaJones]

8. 1500. nt

[LSK]

9. $1225 mortgage (includes insurance and taxes)

[againes654]

10. Happy to say

$0, my house is paid for. :woohoo:

[KamaAina]

11. Who voted $5000-10,000?

Par-tay at his/her place this weekend!! :beer:

[KamaAina]

12. Just raised to $850

quite a deal, actually, in off-the-charts Honolulu (average rent now around $1200). Of course, it is a tiny <400 sq. ft. studio originally built as a vacation rental, in a no-pets hell of a building :grr: , but what's a boy to do?

[Arugula Latte]

24. On the up side, you live in Hawaii.

:)

[krispos42]

13. $634

One bedroom apartment in a small town in Minnesota north of the Cities. The bedroom is fairly large, modest living room, small kitchen, dining area. One walk-in closet, two other closets, small deck. New fridge, A/C, and dishwasher.

And the best part: 0.70 miles from my job! :-)

[supernova]

14. Zilch

I own my house and the land it sits on.

I pay about 1350/yr in property taxes for the house and another vacant lot I own.

[MedleyMisty]

15. $450 or so

Husband does the bill stuff, so not sure.

[Left Is Write]

16. $835.

[Carrieyazel]

17. $840/ month 20-year mortgage 2 BR Townhouse: But

I'm afraid to open my latest tax bill. My monthly payment will be going up soon, and its scaring me right now.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

18. $875 for a studio.

[catmandu57]

19. 378.00

includes taxes and insurance. It's a pretty good deal rents here have risen, if we had to rent a place that was comparable to our house we would be looking at 450.00 to start and that would be a dump.

[MissB]

20. About $1400.

House is worth what someone will pay for it. We bought it cheap and put more than half down. Houses in this neighborhood don't sell for under $800k.

[Jimbo S]

21. $802

15-year mortgage on a 2-BR condo.

[LibDemAlways]

22. House, purchased in 1979, is paid for. There are some

benefits to staying put....although not having a mortgage deduction is a killer at tax time.

[soleft]

23. I'm looking for the NYers here, don't see any yet

[Lethe]

25. $330

and i still think thats too expensive!!

[Roland99]

26. $5000-10000??? Who let the Republican in????

:)

[LibraLiz1973]

33. lol- I think we were all thinking WTF?

ha ha

[madinmaryland]

35. A long time DU'er just bought a house recently.

Definately not a repub, though.

:hide:

[Roland99]

36. Was just funnin'

;)

[mcscajun]

56. I don't know, but will they adopt me?

;)

[Jamastiene]

27. $350/month.

In other words, the cheapest place I could find to live. Rent, where I live, averages about $400-$600.

[ceile]

28. $825

Which for Austin right now is a steal. No yard though.

[lildreamer316]

29. ZERO!! Hee hee! n/t

[Pacifist Patriot]

30. Went with the combined mortgage and second mortgage...

atoning for past financial sins and a few hurricane repairs. Bad PP!

[GOPisEvil]

31. $855 a month this year. Not too bad for my own slice of earth, eh?

:) That includes principle, interest, taxes and insurance.

[Withywindle]

32. $750, small 1BR in Chicago

It's kind of a studio with some extra walls in. But it's sunny and it has AC and it's a cool old Victorian building and it's right around the corner from my best friend and two blocks from the bus, so I'm not bitchin'.

[NMDemDist2]

34. $0.00 unless you include taxes and insurance, then it's $90.00

:evilgrin:


it's a 3/2 mobile home on an acre of land

"God's Little Acre" as we call it

[bicentennial_baby]

37. $1400 and change...

But, we're soooo close to the subway, and we don't pay utilities, and we have AC and a dishwasher, parking, and a secure bldg. :)

[Va Lefty]

38. I pay $650/mth for 2 BR Apt

has small deck, washer/dryer and dishwasher. Rent includes water/sewer and trash pick-up. I used to live in a VAN down by the RIVER

[dropkickpa]

39. $545/month

includes $20 pet fee, water, and sewage. It's a 2 BR, LR, DR, sunroom, 1 bath duplex (bottom floor), and section of basement (with laundry hookups, sooo glad I don't have to go to the laundromat AKA mom's house anymore). It's a really nice neighborhood, but my gas bill is ridiculous in the winter (about $400/month in the coldest months, we're not going above 66 this winter).

[Silver Swan]

40. Zero

Zero for my mortgage because the house is paid for, but property taxes and insurance cost me over $500.00 a month.

Can't win--if I moved somewhere with lower property taxes, I'd have to pay state income tax on my pension.

[Beaverhausen]

41. $1500 - rent for 2 bedroom house is So Cal - it's a steal

we are lucky we found this. Similar one two doors down just went for $2200.

[Catchawave]

47. In the 70's, our rent for a 4 bedroom

in Coronado (a block from the beach) was $325.

We almost bought a house in Coronado Cays....on the San Diego Bay, but couldn't afford the $75,000 :banghead: It's worth over 2 million now.

I loved living there :hi:

[Piltdown13]

42. $725/mo

Rent on a 2-bedroom townhouse with 1.5 baths and a storage unit in the basement, about a mile from campus. It's much, much more than I wanted to pay, but unfortunately there's not much choice -- I live in a college town, and just about all of the non-scary apartment complexes (and some of the scary ones) are marketed to students, right down to rents being quoted per-bedroom. Don't get me wrong, I love my students, but I'm not crazy about being their neighbor!

Some other faculty I know live in nearby communities, but from what I can tell, it doesn't make much sense to do that unless you're buying; rents aren't *that* much less, and it's probably a push when you consider the costs of commuting (in both gas and time).

[Blue_In_AK]

43. My mortgage payment is under $1300

(including taxes and insurance) but since this is a duplex, my tenant pays 2/3 of it. :) Everybody's happy because the rent I charge is still under market.

[Dukkha]

45. $790

too much for a 2BR condo. the fees keep going up a lot

[philosophie_en_rose]

46. A lot.

:shrug:

It's a bigger place than I need, but someday I'll need room for the trophy husband.

[FooFootheSnoo]

48. Approx $850

includes taxes and insurance. We have a small 3 bedroom, 2 bath home on a corner lot which gives us a pretty big front yard and a decent back yard. Our square footage is 1244, not including the garage. It's big enough for me, but my husband hates it. His family are all in real estate and own HUGE houses. It's small, but I'm proud to be paying less than $1000 mortgage in this day and age. We bought our house back in '99.

[Kali]

49. zip - it's part of my wages (ag worker)

Not sure what it would be - its a wonderful old house - big and roomy, three bedrooms two baths huge living room, big kitchen, wood floors, screened porch, sun porch, shade porch three part yard.

It's also 120 years old, gets mice and scorpions, no heat to speak of, no AC, have to fill the dishwasher with a bucket because the water system is on gravity and the pressure is not high enough, and it is either 2 or 5 miles on ROUGH dirt roads to hit pavement, another 10 to 20 to the two nearest towns, 60 to a city.

[femmocrat]

51. Zero.

We paid our house off a couple of years ago. We just pay property taxes, :grr:

[greendog]

52. $400.00

~

[JTG of the PRB]

53. My roommate and I split our $700 rent.

So I personally pay $350 a month. We might move when our lease is up, however. Apparently apartments in Niwot are even cheaper. Plus, Niwot is closer to Boulder.

[Wcross]

54. 399.58 with a balance of 5,000 dollars.

I bought 15 acres and a very small fixer house in 2002 for 58,000. I love it here, very secluded & quiet. It was priced less than 1x my earnings for that year and I decided to buy. Never regretted the purchase. I plan on paying it off next February. Life will be good then.

[txwhitedove]

55. Heheh...., NADA, zip, -0- because I am housesitting for a year.

I do pay utilities, only about $210-month.

:thumbsup:

[Missy Vixen]

57. $2000 a month

This includes property tax and insurance.

Julie

[bridgit]

58. $500...