If you were to default and lose that home it would basically bar you from buying another property for years.

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Your agent knows that the empty lot on the back side will soon house a sports bar.  

To restaurants, bars, shopping? 

They tend to go broke pretty quickly and retire to whatever bar they spend their free time at, moaning endlessly about how hard it is to get into real estate.

Investment Info:Single-family residence buy & hold investment in Gold Bar.

It's better than finding a chocolate bar floating in your pool.

You may be surprised at how radically different those two properties are (I was definitely surprised).For instance, before the rate hikes, a mortgage payment of $3k per month put you in the lap of luxury in my city--A and B class properties in the best A and B class neighborhoods in the city were attainable (think: beautiful tree-lined streets, trendy bars and restaurants nearby, the best school districts in the city, residents with some of the highest income in the city, etc., etc.) . 

Stove was dented, broken heating coil in oven, broken shelf bars in fridge, etc. 

If you buy bar stools, don't get ones with backs, guests will break them.