#10 – You may lose your job.  When you don’t pay your rent, they put you on the street in 20 days.  When you don’t pay your mortgage payment, they don’t put you on the street for at least 8 months.

#8 – Many a marriage has been saved…by buying a house with two staircases.

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#7 – You just read *page 114* of Harlan Coben’s “Promise Me” (see below), and you live in a “garden apartment”.

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#6 – Your girlfriend is demanding equal treatment to your wife.

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#5 – Your boyfriend is demanding equal treatment to your wife.

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#4 – Your mother-in-law just bought a 1 way ticket to your apartment

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#3 – Your bank account is bigger than your home office

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#2 – God said: Your real estate agent, banker and mortgage rep all need you to buy a house, right NOW!.  This is a direct message from God.  No kidding.

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NUMBER ONE: Your 4 year old is riding the dog, and dragging the baby around like a pull toy, because she needs a yard and swing set.

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*Page 114* “lived alone in the same crappy “garden” apartment for more than a decade…they call them “garden” though the only thing that seemed to grow was the monotonous red brick…sturdy structures with the personality of prison cells, way stations for people on their way up or down and for a few, stuck in a certain personal-life purgatory.”