Comments on: Keeping Homes By Taking In Boarders

CBS Evening News: Struggling To Pay Mortgages, Families Filling Spare Rooms With Renters

[nothappyatall]

chromenun , quit your whining. My mortgage payment in San Diego (only 1500 sq feet, old house), is $3300 a month.

Posted by AnitaY417"

Holy chit! what a rip off! I bought a 2 b.r. 1930 farmhouse, 1200 sq ft plus full basement, on a HALF ACRE of land for UNDER $10,000 and dont have a mortgage. Prices on older houses in the Midwest are dirt cheap!

My taxes after homestead credit are around $125 a year.

I have city water, sewer, garbage pickup which all together is under $25/mo in this midwest town of 1,800.

A building permit here cost $5 for a garage/shed etc to $20 for a house.

My electric here is a little over 5 cents a KWH, man- you Californicates are being ripped off badly- your problem is you don''t know how to SHOP AROUND.

The crime rate here is such we have one police chief and 2 officers, people don''t bother locking up or shutting cars off at the store- nobody does anything to your stuff.
World- class modern hospital edge of town too.

There''s no annual smog check dragging you in like sheep, my ''94 Olds costs $20 a year for the registration, I pay around $130 a year for car insurance.
Your problem is people dont use your heads and way overpay on all of that because you all live in the WRONG state and the WRONG areas nad that''s why your freaking mortgage is $3300 a MONTH and car ins is $1800 and buildin gpermit is $5500 and on it goes.

[nothappyatall]

I wonder why so many people seem to begrudge others their success. Its the constant whine of the loser who seems determined to convince himself that his own failure is the fault of those who have it better.

Posted by Rillifane "

Umm, how do you think people make money on things like the stock and commodities markets to GET rich? In order for someone to become rich someone ELSE has to LOSE money- it doesn''t grow on trees!
For someone to make a million bucks in commodities or stocks, someone else lost their life savings- or someone else was stomped on by executives on their climb to the top, like the laid off employees a week before Xmas to max 4th qtr profits for the STOCKHOLDERS, THATS WHY.

[rudy6543]

Posted by AnitaY417 at 03:01 AM

Good one! You got me laughing!

[rudy6543]

Hey you idiots: robertzit, selina freak, and morphinedull. Your spamming has been reported as a violation of terms. Go spam someone else.

[flsunjnky]

It has everything to do with this article you idiot!

[emelder]

morphndol8 at 11:10 PM : Dec 24, 2008

... and your text has WHAT to do with this article???

[jelato]

I moved in with my parents to help make it easier for them. Not financially, but I am their "feet". I run for them, get their coffee, cook light meals, figure out their medical stuff. I have enjoyed the last year. Now my daughter has moved in with us. My parents enjoy the liveliness in the house now. My daughter is in and out and it makes things much more "fun" for my parents. Of course there are adjustments. Also my parents can take care of their personal needs - so I dont deal with that. But all things said I think people should try it.

[chromenun]

I have been renting out rooms in my home for the past year and a half. I had one boarder that was here for ove a year, and was the nicest, most wonderfilled person to have around. But I also had a room mate from HELL for 8 months, and it took me forever (it seemed) to get her to move out. There is just so much a person can take, but it sure is hard when you have to find a new room mate.

I hope the next one is a nice, easy going person, but ya never know. But if I don''t rent the rooms out then I cannot eat or pay my utilities. I work fulltime at the same job for over 7 years. My situation was caused because my homeowners'' insurance was cancelled due to Hurricanes Ivan and Katrina (no damage, just location) and the only company I could find to insure me was 4 times as high as I had been paying. Also my property taxes doubled in the past year. My mortgage payment, which is a fixed rate, which was $567.00 per month, skyrocketed to $911.00 per month!!! And to think I raised two children as a widow on much less than I make now, and now I can hardly take care of just me. I own my own car, do not have credit cards, and have tried to pare down on everything I possibly can.

At this point, all we can do is to help each other out as much as possible.

[puzzler125]

I think she''s being grossly overcharged! $750 for only one room and a bathroom? $200 extra for dinners? While I think this is a terrific idea in general for those who are trying to keep their homes $750 is way more than I pay for a 590 square foot apartment with a small den and dining area.

[whitemale08]

"How many spare rooms do Gore and McCain have?"

I wonder why so many people seem to begrudge others their success. Its the constant whine of the loser who seems determined to convince himself that his own failure is the fault of those who have it better.




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Posted by Rillifane at 08:32 PM : Dec 24, 2008--

Don''t confuse those who legitimately complain against a system based on ''structure-financing'' wothless derivates used by hedge funds, buy-out-firms and locusts funds to loot the American people.

The whole idea of "it hasn''t happen to me yet...'' is selfish and your fellow man will curse you for it until the same plight happens to you.

[hammaann]

Why, in the story: "Keeping Homes By Taking In Boarders" was it reported that a woman lost her business "because of the economy"? The reporter had no idea why the woman''s business actually failed, now did he?

How about you just report the FACTS and stop repetitively POUNDING on whatever the current THEME might be? Are you TRYING to get more and more people to panic. It certainly seems as if you are.

[debinok1]

This is the wave of the next few years, more generations of families will be living together to save costs, those without family or family that is to far away will take boarders. It is a sensible approach to tight finances, and may even help strenghten families in the process.

[rudy6543]

Ah...stories like this must be music to the ears of neocons.

[rillifane]

"How many spare rooms do Gore and McCain have?"

I wonder why so many people seem to begrudge others their success. Its the constant whine of the loser who seems determined to convince himself that his own failure is the fault of those who have it better.

[pugster]

At least this couple have some smarts.

[whitemale08]

I remember living in South America where this is the ''norm''. I even rented one of these ''habiticiones'' for a while.

It''s just another aspect of the Bush/Hannity/Limbaugh-Depression.

Latins in California, Texas and Miami, have been doing this for years.

It''s all part of becoming that great banana-republic that junkyard dog Sean Hannity wants America aspire to.

[wl7bzh]

I lived in a boarding house over 40 years ago Rent was 15 dollars a week. Minimum wage was a buck twenty-five an hour. If you ever live in one, keep a diary. Some of the stories you''ll have tell would one heck of a novel.