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Old 02-07-2007, 09:32 AM   #43
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Originally Posted by Cowperson View Post
Your parents were in exactly the same position as yourself at one point . . . . and probably saying the same thing as you were.

They put in the time, eventually paid off their mortgage, levered their extra savings into other properties . . . . and thirty years had passed.

You're not willing to put in the time. You want it now. Impatience. That's your problem.

Cowperson
My father frequently tells the story of the near divorce their first Calgary home purchase caused.

He could see no reason how a home could be worth that much money, and the deposit cheque was the most difficult one he ever wrote.

The deposit was $500 for a $20,000 home in Lake Bonavista in 1972.

I also recently heard that over a 15 year period that calgary's average annualized growth in home prices was not that extreme and ranked 9th in Canada.

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