And if they couldn't afford it, they should have sold, moved to what they could afford. 

You do not actually need any income if they have high enough income to afford their bills plus your new house.

We have talked about things such as rent by the room and acknowledge that the operating model will likely be very different while living in the property vs. when we move out.I think the point you made about assumable loans is very helpful to get into a property you might not otherwise be able to afford.

Just get it under contract as quickly as possible... an multi- page realtor supplied purchase contract often does not afford you the luxury of time.  

As prices increase, fewer people can afford to buy homes, forcing them to rent.

Some people have $35,000 to throw around, but I definitely can’t afford to waste money like that.

The original posters / plaintiffs now go silent on social media but the secondary investors still believe the original posts and simply repeat it continually in an effort to convince themselves that the money they should have never invested because they couldn’t afford to lose is going to be recovered in short order.Of course this is just fantasy on my part, I have no way of knowing how much of it, if any is true.  

Talk about affordable housing.

How does the already deep in debt CA afford to tack on $50 BILLION in debt service?

I saw many highly successful hard working people lose money to them as well as people who couldn't afford it.