Orlando realtor Freddie Smith discusses how owning a home and living a typical middle class life has become increasingly unattainable for most millennials and older Gen Z.

TL;DR: Americans now need to make $120K a year to afford a typical middle-class life and qualify to purchase a home. Minimum.

  • aesthelete@lemmy.world
    41·
    10 months ago

    What’s to prevent someone from buying a house this way and then just “renting it” from themselves? lol

    • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
      7·
      10 months ago

      You’re not renting it from yourself. You happen to be renting from a corporation that you happen to be sole director of. Gotta emulate what the rich do.

    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      10 months ago

      If you buy a house declared as investment, but you really intended to live there, it’s mortgage fraud.

    • homura1650@lemm.ee
      5·
      10 months ago

      Generally, mortgages for your primary residence offer more favorable terms then ones for investment properties. The issue in the above story is likely related to the friend. If they had tried the same thing, their offer would likely have been even worse than what they got for a primary residence with a cosigner. Assuming they got an offer at all.