My best bud from childhood is in the same boat with 100k cash.

I bought my first house at 19 and this is how I did it.I was 19-year-olds are stuck in their childhood bedrooms or squandering their student loan.

@Wy KayOne of my tenants once came over while I was working on the house I was renting to him and casually implied "brah-to-brah" that I must have bought my wife from an online Russian bride agency.

A childhood friend, now banker, waved a magic wand and got me conventional finance on the property.

I grew up in Sugar Land for much of my childhood, and it's incredible the growth and new builds out there in the past 10 years!  

My wife & I spent a lot of time on REI concepts with a young couple we have know from childhood.

Whereas, my friend's childhood town let them have chickens, bulls, pigs, mini horses, goats, and all sorts of crap (literally) right in the residential neighborhood.

I think we can all remember the dreaded feeling of report card days from our childhood.

After a couple of seasons he was once again traded to the Philadelphia Eagles where he and his new bride at that time, who played World Class Soccer on the US team that one the World Cup, purchased a beautiful flat and had the building in the photo for a view.

They spoke of a hard-won, honest self-awareness few adults have, one clawed back from the forgotten point where we all seem to lose it in childhood.