I think I might give myself an ulcer.

Whose idea was it to buy a condo in downtown Chicago?  Oh that’s right, mine.  I am kicking myself now.  Not only is buying a place stressful in the first place but the city makes it damn expensive!  We have to pay exorbitant taxes on the most ridiculous things.  And to make it even better, they just jacked up the tax on some money transfer thing (stamp-deed?)  Just in time for us to buy our place.  It adds about 1K to our closing costs.  Awesome.

I have added up our income, savings, and investments and then subtracted that from our down payment more time than I wish to remember (for some reason I think the numbers will change.)  I keep telling myself (with help from Ben) that everything will be fine and that we will not starve.  He reminded me that in college and the beginning of med school he lived at weeks at a time on a box of Raisin Bran.  He also reminded me he often had $4 in his checking account so he a pro at living like a poor person.  This comes from the man that added to our list of “future expenses” an Iphone, flat screen TV, a fancy digital camera, and a Smart car.

This should be fun.

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