I live with my parents at the moment, as following divorce I had no choice really. I have two children and I have about 30k saved.
I was looking at very ordinary small 3 bed houses near me, and some are up for about 280, probably could get them for 230 at them moment.
If I used HALF of my savings as a deposit, I could then pay the mortgage for at least a year and hopefully get people to rent it out until I'd saved some more and could afford to move into it.
I just ran this past my Dad and he said 'no, that wouldn't work, what if you couldn't rent it out?'. I said, well, I'd make sure the rent was attractive to renters, JUST enough to cover mortgage repayments...
He said NO. You'll end up with no savings and no house. Is he right? Not gonna help me.
Am I naive? I really want to own a house. I am 38 and it upsets me that I don't own a house.