{"id":27568,"date":"2022-08-23T12:18:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T16:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t3_wvszx6"},"modified":"2022-08-23T12:18:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T16:18:48","slug":"parents-are-gifting-me-money-for-a-downpayment-on-a-house-can-someone-explain-the-harsh-realities-of-being-a-first-time-home-owner-in-this-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/2022\/08\/23\/parents-are-gifting-me-money-for-a-downpayment-on-a-house-can-someone-explain-the-harsh-realities-of-being-a-first-time-home-owner-in-this-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents are gifting me money for a downpayment on a house, can someone explain the harsh realities of being a first time home owner in this market?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>So I [26M] am being gifted a large sum of money for a downpayment. I currently work full time in IT and have roughly $10,000 saved up at the moment. I have no significant debts besides a car loan which has roughly $6000 remaining. This whole thing was suddenly sprung up on me and is causing me a massive amount of anxiety\/excitement as I don&#039;t feel ready for home ownership. The idea is to have a home under my name and live there while I rent out the basement. For more context the home they are looking to purchase for me is ~ $460,000, they are providing me with a $120,000 downpayment, and the potential to rent out the basement is safely around $1200\/month I&#039;d be paying the remainder of the monthly mortgage\/utilities\/etc. I&#039;m in the process of getting prequalified, but I feel as if there are so many steps to this process that I didn&#039;t get to fully absorb since it happened so quickly. I never asked for this and I&#039;m grateful to even be in this position, but I&#039;m still very nervous. Any and all advice is deeply appreciated!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON --> &#032; submitted by &#032; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/ThisUserIsSuspicious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> \/u\/ThisUserIsSuspicious <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/PersonalFinanceCanada\/comments\/wvszx6\/parents_are_gifting_me_money_for_a_downpayment_on\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[link]<\/a><\/span> &#032; <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/PersonalFinanceCanada\/comments\/wvszx6\/parents_are_gifting_me_money_for_a_downpayment_on\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><a href=\"\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I [26M] am being gifted a large sum of money for a downpayment. I currently work full time in IT and have roughly $10,000 saved up at the moment. I have no significant&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewwbradley.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}