I am never planning to sell this house as it is my childhood home but I am planning to be able to take out an equity loan in the next 3-5 years as a down payment for my first "forever" home.

The most insightful comments in this thread that I have read thus far was what @Jeff Cagle stated when he wrote, “a system produces what it incentivizes.”As a social worker who has probably had more training in social programs and understanding the mindset of people in poverty or who live in C-class properties than the majority of people on this thread, I am understanding and empathetic to people’s situations and their conditioning and training from childhood.

They moved to a new house in a better township and brought my siblings with them and my growing family gets to move into my childhood home.  

The more streams of income I have coming in, and the higher my net worth, the less likely my family will ever have to deal with any financial crisis in their lives, which I know from my own childhood can be very hard.

My history is as follows:Early Childhood - Dirt Poor in the 70s in NYC.Teenager - Dirt Poor but studied hard to get into CollegeCollege - Delayed due to family crisis.

Getting into the mindset of aggressive budgeting/saving with your soon-to-be bride will be a great foundation for saving to invest.

Firstly, i want sure if this is the proper forum to ask this question.Also, please pardon my ignorance with regard to these topics, I've only purchased 1 home so far, and am trying to assist my wife and her father.My father-in-law just told us that his house was written off a few years ago after some sort of bankruptcy.His wife passed away last year and he wants to start preparing his will.This was my wife's childhood home and she wants to try and keep the house in the family ..... which doesn't seem likely to me once her father passes, considering it was written off and they don't have the title.1.

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I grew up living in one house for most of my childhood and I really miss having a permeant house over the apartments that I lived and moved around in during college.