Maybe it's just me, but I didn't see a single mention of those picayune little property tax payments that homeowners need to come up with annually. The median home price in SoCal is about $466K and rising so a down payment would be, what 24K to 94K? And that's if you can find a home that isn't be be bought over asking price by Chinese and others for CASH! My Daughter and SIL who make decent wages and are pre qualified keep having properties they are interested in bid way over asking and out of their purchasing ability. Last year when I had to sell my home I thought it would be a long process, wrong, it sold in less than a week for more than the asking price. Now we are back in an apartment, I'm not thrilled but no property tax, no maintenance and upkeep, no water/trash/sewer bill.
