As long as 1 co owner on the mortgage lives in the home its not against FHA rules"Borrowers are eligible for maximum FHA loan financing for non-occupying borrower situations for FHA loan applicants who are related by blood, marriage, or law.

I took the course with my wife right before we got married and it set the tone for our marriage and got us both on the same page with our finances.

Owning is becoming less popular in general thanks to student loans and millennial trends such as more frequent job changes, delaying marriage/families, and lack of retirement savings.

However, title can be “clouded” many ways, including heirs who never registered their rightful interest (usually when someone dies without a will), spouses never formally divorced, common law marriage situations, children born out of wedlock, incorrect survey information, Sheriff and tax sales misidentifying multiple parcel situations, partial property rights transferred such as remainder estates, tax liens unrecorded, incorrect county identification due to changing county lines as when a river redirects, and of course plain old error in the property description copied onto the recorded warranty deed.  

It does not mean REI, buying an auto or Marriage is inherently bad does it?

Hi all, lots of expertise on this thread, so can't help myself, I need to get these in: there are a few questions I cannot figure out a practical answer regarding sec 121 and the rule of "2 of the last 5" regarding marriage (to achieve the full $500k exemption).

Be specific I would use the $1M to open and promote a "Legal" Psychoactive clinic for Veteran PTSD, Drug addiction/Withdrawal Marriage/Divorce therapy on the Oregon Coast.

My house has been both an asset & investment into my marriage and children.

LoL, nope, first sign of a bad marriage.

But I had a few other hurdles, marriage, 5 kids, you know... the usual.