[truong321]

Originally Posted by FirstClass

[stooken]

Originally Posted by mrvuml

Welcome to the official E90Post bragging thread!

+1000000000000

[nmulax]

To get back on topic, Canucklion summed it up with this;

Originally Posted by canucklion

different people have different priorities in life.

I personally can't afford to spend $10k in mods to a $45k car. But even if I could, my priorities now are a nice home/loft first. I did purchase what I felt was the best vehicle in my budget; and a year ago, I'd be ready to drop 10k into the car before property. But now I've matured, and my priorities have changed.

While visiting family for the holidays, my dad and I were talking money, and he made the comment "what are you more impressed by; the cars I drive, or the home I own?"
Yeah, I don't want to be that guy parking his Lambo in the apartment complex.

[laurenty]

Originally Posted by BlackLemon

wasnt about that, most of you are from cali...shit the avergae house in cali is like a mill....no biggy

yea and a ton of people in cali owe a lot more than their house if worth right now. People that either bought their house in the last couple years or that cashed out "equity" when the price went way up. (to buy their 335 w/ rims)

Now you see foreclosures everywhere around here...

[laurenty]

Originally Posted by NaTuReB0Y

To get to the...........

ah... the good old days of cheap gas... *sigh*

[E90330iS]

hahaha wow this became a pw thread...

[BlackLemon]

Originally Posted by FirstClass

Where the hell do you live that a 2700 square foot house is 1.3mil? Hell go outside the city a bit and you can get about 3x the footage for that much here. (Exchange rates and countries not withstanding, is there some crazy house tax in Canada I don't know about?) Mountains = suburban or rural in my book.

I live in Calgary alberta...the real estate market here jumped 38% since 06..its expensive but not like California. no crazy house taxes either...actually my property taxes are only 3500 a year.

[npb]

Originally Posted by wj4

. A lot of my friends want the 'image' when they're driving $100,000 cars living in small studio apartments.

haha... the $30k 'millionaire'

i've been thankful to have learned early enough that modifying cars is a complete waste of time and money with little to nothing to show for it.

[E(@M#]

since houses depreciate and car's dont







1.house
2.family
3.car

[John 070]

Do you measure your achievement by sq. footage? j/k

Around here, we have no choice. With property taxes between 10 and 20 per year, we have to put money towards our houses at the expense of our cars. Most people who have the nicest homes in my neighborhood don't even have a BMW, I'm guessing with a 5-7k/mo. mortgage they're doing all they can to pay for their homes. But you go to the South side of town and they have the houses and the cars, and the 30k+ property taxes to boot.

[jetblk328i]

for me i would get a decent sized house, not huge, not crappy either, then spend some money on getting some nice cars, again, not 7 series or a8 nice but nice cars.

[CnoteMD]

I agree with the priority of home, then car. But if you need to put $10k+ worth of mods into a $40-50k car (essentially 20-25% of the total value of the car), it almost seems like you bought the wrong car.

In my situation, I wanted a 3 series for many years but put it off until I was able to buy a nice place to live. My next goal is to buy an M3, Porsche Carerra S, or both. However, I will do this only after buying a 2nd home.

[Ru$$ell]

i live in a box

[335i4u2nv]

i live in my car which is a loaner that i steal from the bmw dealership i work at part time cleaning toilets and urinals... life sux for me!

[herbz]

House > Cars

And yes I know people that drive $100k Porsches that live either a) in their parents basement or b) in some shitty little appartment. And yes, I make fun of those types of people. Because they can't even afford to pay for their own food.

[jngjng72]

Originally Posted by herbz

House > Cars

And yes I know people that drive $100k Porsches that live either a) in their parents basement or b) in some shitty little appartment. And yes, I make fun of those types of people. Because they can't even afford to pay for their own food.

My friend's brother in law is apparently quite proud of driving around in one of his two new cadillacs, all the while living in his parent's basement...at 40 years of age. Very scary that parents actually accept this kind of behavior.

[Chunga]

If you look in the section "black saphire" there are a lot of big houses behind the cars in strange colors and shapes. I looked at them course i was interested in the buildings in the US.
Its wery far from how we live here in Denmark - money or not.
So i would be glad for some pictures of the houses. and the streets.

[BlackLemon]

Originally Posted by jngjng72

My friend's brother in law is apparently quite proud of driving around in one of his two new cadillacs, all the while living in his parent's basement...at 40 years of age. Very scary that parents actually accept this kind of behavior.

Thats like meeting a hot big breasted girl at the bar, only to find out when you take her home the bra was stuffed....its cool he has nice cars, but where does he bring the ladies?

[BK]

Originally Posted by BMW335icDDS

I've seen tons of ppl here in LA with shitty homes and nice cars. People want to look rich who aren't rich. Thats why cars aren't status symbols without the house.

I realize the LA populace is as image-conscious as it gets, but when you think about it, a crappy house in LA or some other expensive area may cost half a million dollars. The average annual household income in those homes is probably $200K or more. A $40K car wouldn't qualify as trying to "look rich" at that income level. A $100K car would.

[leyenda]

Originally Posted by franciscosss

for me retiring is like waiting to die... IMHO why wait to do or get everything you dreamed for when u're too old, tired and arthritic to enjoy it?

Agree 100%

[wrickem]

Originally Posted by herbz

House > Cars

And yes I know people that drive $100k Porsches that live either a) in their parents basement or b) in some shitty little appartment. And yes, I make fun of those types of people. Because they can't even afford to pay for their own food.

I am in total agreement with you there herbz.

House comes first.

[phantom330]

Originally Posted by E(@M#

since houses depreciate and car's dont







1.house
2.family
3.car

uh I think you mean ......appreciate, unless you're just really uninformed