u can buy a house, but you can't buy a FANCY house. way outside of your means, amd you can't buy it without having 20% of the purchase price in cash. that is not all that impossible to achieve. In fact, anyone who will pay attention to what I teach here can arrange that in 2 years or less. You don't need, and shouldn't even want, a house over 100k. you need to make double payments on it each month, the first few years, and it will knock about 100k off of your interest, too, (30 year mortgage) Write one check out "towards prinicple only", so that they can't just apply it to the loan in general. You want all the credit cards you can get, in case you need or want to cash them out into gold coins, and make a bundle on the deal one day.