Originally Posted by jrhagen
You were lucky you could afford to buy, it must have been cheaper up there. I was in Kansai at the same time period and housing prices were crazy.
I had a ZZR 750 but it had to be double exported to buy it. Loophole in the law.
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My roommate and I were paying almost $500 a month for rent. Landlord came by one day and was talking about selling the place, we asked how much. Under $20k (roughly 1200 sf, typical 3/4 scale stuff, 7 foot ceilings and 6 foot doors, I felt like a giant over there! LOL!). We got it financed through Bank Of Fort Sam Houston (base bank at the time) and the rest was history. Mortgage ended up at $200 a month for 15 years. Roommate got fired a year later (odd, since his dad was our HR guy) and moved back to the States, so I bought him out at that time. Held on to it until last year, when I sold it for appraised value (right at $60k). Nice little investment in the end. Kind of planned on retiring there though, so I guess that's out now.