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#15766 of 16087 Re: BMW and me.... [flightnurse] by euphonium

Mar 22, 2013 (10:50 am)

Replying to: flightnurse (Mar 18, 2013 8:25 am)
After you satisfy your college loans - you qualify to buy a used BMW. Leasing any car while you still owe on your education loans is hypocritical.

#15767 of 16087 Re: BMW and me.... [euphonium] by flightnurse

Mar 22, 2013 (12:00 pm)

Replying to: euphonium (Mar 22, 2013 10:50 am)
Interesting comment.... "After you satisfy your college loans - you qualify to buy a used BMW. Leasing any car while you still owe on your education loans is hypocritical."
 
Why does one have to wait 25 yrs to buy a used BMW just because they have student loans? If this was true, then every Dr I know would still be driving their car from med school today, while they are earning a nice 6 figure a year income. Now granted, if you have a college grad you is making 30K/yr, with student loans, they should not be looking to buy any car at this time...

#15768 of 16087 Re: BMW and me.... [flightnurse] by dino001

Mar 22, 2013 (12:14 pm)

Replying to: flightnurse (Mar 22, 2013 12:00 pm)
And how many doctors file for bankruptcy? As far as I heard, doctors are just terrible business and finance people (not all of course, but as a social group). Buying/leasing expensive vehicle while $100K+ in debt is exactly an example one could give to confirm this opinion.
 
25 years of paying off student loans is entirely matter of choices made in this country. It is the order of items they decided to pay and acquire that made them paying student loans in 25 years. I know plenty of people who came out of NOTHING, had tens of thousands in student loans and were free of them within 5-10 years of graduation. It is doable, all it takes is NOT TO BUY STUFF.

#15769 of 16087 Re: BMW and me.... [dino001] by kyfdx HOST

Mar 22, 2013 (12:57 pm)

Replying to: dino001 (Mar 22, 2013 12:14 pm)
It is doable, all it takes is NOT TO BUY STUFF.

 
Are you sure you passed the test? That seems un-American...

#15770 of 16087 Re: BMW and me.... [kyfdx] by dino001

Mar 22, 2013 (1:14 pm)

Replying to: kyfdx (Mar 22, 2013 12:57 pm)
I was hiding my true feelings.

#15771 of 16087 Re: BMW and me.... [dino001] by cdnpinhead

Mar 22, 2013 (1:26 pm)

Replying to: dino001 (Mar 22, 2013 12:14 pm)
. . . all it takes is NOT TO BUY STUFF.
 
Very true, but many people figure that if it's good enough for the government, it's good enough for them -- spend as if there's no tomorrow.
 
The morons (like me) who do things responsibly nearly always end up paying for those who don't. Even/especially at work (Fortune 100 company) I've seen this stuff happen. My budgets that were in great shape in September get cut to zero so that the politicians (works every time it's tried) who have run out of money could get to the end of the year.
 
Sink or swim was what got this country to where it was a few decades ago. It remains to be seen what the new approach will yield. The good news is that I'll be dead before it plays out.

#15772 of 16087 Re: BMW and me.... [dino001] by robr2

Mar 22, 2013 (1:27 pm)

Replying to: dino001 (Mar 22, 2013 12:14 pm)
I concur. A husband and wife in our group fo friends are physicians. They just paid off their student loans from med school after almost 20 years. They live in a nice but not ostentatious home. She drives a Sienna and he an A4. They live well below their means and are now saving to pay for two more college educations.

#15773 of 16087 Re: BMW and me.... [dino001] by stickguy

Mar 22, 2013 (2:16 pm)

Replying to: dino001 (Mar 22, 2013 12:14 pm)
just because you have some student loans doesn't mean you have to live like a pauper or drive a junker.
 
My son is about to graduate, and will have some (but not exorbitant) student loan debt. If (please!) he gets a job soon, we will have to do something about a car, because I don't really want to send him away to depend on the well used old one if he is depending on it to commute.
 
so, a lease may make the most sense, since there won't be any money left really to put down on something decent, and you would still need a large loan.
 
so, the student loan will be just 1 more monthly obligation in 9 months when they start, though putting extra toward it will likely make a lot of sense, depending on the interest rate.
 
Still, getting started in life, as long as the payments are not a problem, no reason not to live a normal life.
 
Now, my nephew the intern, I think he has close to 300K by now piled up (200?) In any case, I told him to just budget it like a 2nd mortgage!

#15774 of 16087 Re: BMW and me.... [stickguy] by sweendogy

Mar 22, 2013 (5:37 pm)

Replying to: stickguy (Mar 22, 2013 2:16 pm)
Good response. Agree- completely- infact a lease in some cases can be a cheaper alternative monthly then a used car- look you can get a bmw 328 for 339 a Month (not a leader ad, it's on BMW commercials). Could prob do better in some markers. Why do you think the great bmw stays in biz- it sells cars to non enthusiasts.
 
Others who have yet responded to there "backwardsb hat" comments cannot take the youth buying the prestigious bmw, so called enthusiast. Lets go on a road trip with the GFs - but please don't tell us who should be driving such cars.
 
Act as if.

#15775 of 16087 Re: BMW and me.... [sweendogy] by scwmcan

Mar 22, 2013 (6:59 pm)

Replying to: sweendogy (Mar 22, 2013 5:37 pm)
I agree people can do what they want, but how much goes down on that $329 BMW lease, 3 or 4 thousand? If they have that kind of money to put down on a lease they could just buy a pretty good used car for that, no it won't be fancy, but it would be more financially sound, that said that certainly isn't what they have to do, and they are free to go for the fancy car if they want, it is one of the reasons we live in the area we do, people are allowed to make their own decisions, but they are also supposed to live with the consequences of those decisions, not go blaming someone else for them and ask for handouts. Anyway I am getting off topics so I am going to stop.

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