I lived in a basement suite, followed by a dump of an old house, before I found a slightly less dumpy old house to purchase in a rural area that most city folk would absolutely hate. This was all before the age of 20. Sold my old house about 7 or 8 years later to a younger man who had a very similar starting plan.

Now I have a 5 bedroom house on two acres. It’s not in some heavily populated area, it’s out in the country and it’s affordable.

Anyway, if you’re a single parent over 40 working at McDonald’s, you’ve made far too many bad decisions in life for me to be of any help.

You make use of someone’s services, you pay for it. If you hate landlords, don’t indebt yourself to landlords. I started off with nothing, now I’m a homeowner.

If I’m so fucking clueless, how come I have a mortgage and you don’t?

Buy your own fucking house if you don’t think the owner deserves his rent money.

The first president of Ireland was an American of partial Spanish descent.

I think that kind of goes for anything in a market economy. Client wants item that vendor has for sale, vendor and client negotiate a price.