If you are paying for other people to live in your house (ie losing money each month), skip the purchase, stash the $, wait, and look for a better deal. 

I stash away about $5k/per house in a general account that is miscellaneous stuff(so $60k total).It's a lot, but if you have multiple houses(say 7+) in one city, and run across the same issues-- say 3 roof replacements, 4 hvac replacements, 4 vacancies for 90 days + all within a 120-180 month period, can you survive?

and stashing them in the back of my car.

Eventually he learned that the hoarder had a massive stash of porn DVDs hidden in a closet and the demolition companies had figured they could profit from selling those off. 

depending on where you have your 401K plan stashed, they should have in-house specialists available to assist you thru to closure. kudos,Mary

Stash away the bulk of your income and set up a recurring, automatic deposit so you never even "miss" the money.

I have about 26k stashed away specifically for a down payment and contribute an additional 1.5k every monthly paycheck to this account so I'm estimating 38k in savings by the time our lease expires.

There are snowmobile trails right near the house which would cater to the snowmobiling community and it even has a garage they could stash their sleds in when rented.

Sounds like a plan, I've started stashing stuff around the house and reminding the wife not to get rid of certain items.

My goal was to have that mortgage paid off as early as I could so that I could stash a sum of cash away for when my son begins college, have 100% equity to draw off of if necessary, and have a substantial cash flow from rent to offset his college expenses.This summer, I crunched the numbers again and realized paying extra didn't make sense any longer and the extra money in my pocket today was worth more than continuing to shorten my loan.