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Brewman:
I suppose with the price of housing down there, they have to get real creative with financing just to get homes sold.
We do have a lot of different mortagage programs up here, with the benchmark being the good old 30 yr fixed rate loan. There are also many variable rate mortgages out there, and some interest only plans.
Our gasoline is selling for around $2.09 per gallon now, and I think our electric is probably around $0.08/kwh- but then they add in a few dollars worth of taxes and "adjustments" so it probably comes out to closer to $0.10/kwh.
Blows me away what you guys in So. Cal. have to pay for electric.
Last year we got nailed with really high natural gas rates, and that hits hard during the heating season. This year the price of NG has dropped significantly, so if we don't have too harsh of a winter, our heating costs should be more easy to stomach.
I guess we got really lucky when we built this place 7 years ago. We were able to keep our mortgage somewhat reasonable because prices hadn't started to escalate yet, and we rolled all the equity we had from our other home into this one.
Property taxes are a killer, though, because they found out that it's easier to boost the value of your home than to try and pass a "tax increase".
And the premiums on our homeowners insurance have mort than doubled from what they were when we moved into this place.
Always something I guess.
Brookenstein:
I haven't paid much attention to what our actual NG rates are... this summer we've spent between $20-25 mo. Last winter we got up to about $60 I think. We have gas water heater, dryer, stove, furnace.... but obviously mild temps.
I do know when we first moved to SoCal I spent less than $10 in summer and no more than $30 in winter so prices have increased, but compared to my electric the bill it is still much easier to pay each month, so I don't complain as much.
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