tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14245531.post6187172954484402769..comments2023-11-18T01:21:55.631-05:00Comments on My Open Wallet: Polly the Normal 22 Year-Old Buys an ApartmentMadame Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11536189690094235926noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14245531.post-74880053421303674692014-01-07T15:00:04.276-05:002014-01-07T15:00:04.276-05:00The comments on this article were aggravating. Pe...The comments on this article were aggravating. People were calling this 22-year old rich, spoiled and other unpleasant names that are totally uncalled for. Shame on those people. Just because they didn't have the means, brains, or sweat equity to do that same doesn't give them the right to trash this woman. <br /><br />I started investing $100 a month from my paper route into the stock market when I was 12 years old. TWELVE!!!! What other 12 year olds know what mutual funds are let alone which ones to invest in? I went to community college which I paid for. My friends all laughed at me because they went to their big universities with their expensive pieces of paper and partied. No one wanted to take a paper route because it's menial work. nowadays you don't see that stuff anymore. Then in college I took a second job to help pay tuition and books and kept putting $100 a month into the stock market. I bought my first apartment at 26 with $50k down of MY OWN MONEY THAT I EARNED. so yeah, it can be done. but those who haven't done it or don't want to make sacrifices (I would never live with roommates! I would never go to community college!!) blame the poor rich girl or the government or their perceived advantages or luck or anything else but themselves. And so what if the author got the money from her parents?!? She's smart enough to buy and not rent and not piss it away on leased cars, expensive vacations, designer handbags and other crap people buy. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14245531.post-56922849294509937942014-01-02T15:21:58.676-05:002014-01-02T15:21:58.676-05:00This is how she saved - "a nest egg from my f...This is how she saved - "a nest egg from my family augmented by savings that I’d stashed away by working in retail since the age of 14"<br /><br />So, basically she got money from her family, used that to buy a place, and wrote a blog post about it. I don't think she did anything noble or any hard work to get that place. Anyways, good for her. I still don't think it's a good investment.<br /><br />- Drew from <a rel="nofollow">New York Motor Insurance</a> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14245531.post-64012508104313682362013-11-04T14:27:59.486-05:002013-11-04T14:27:59.486-05:00There is a take away from everything IF you don...There is a take away from everything IF you don't compare your life to theirs and don't look for things to be jealous of or pick apart. Many people do have help in life. <br /><br />My take away was the process of buying real estate in NY and the challenges of being young and not taken seriously.<br /><br />I bought a condo with my husband at 23 for $238K two decades ago. We had help and we had no student loan debt. We also both went to an in state school. Our parents are first generation born from Asian immigrants. The two generations before us lived frugally and valued education, saved money so that the later generations could attend college and have help. Normal is relative right? I feel I'm fortunate for sure and I feel I'm normal but if anyone called me a "rich" kid I'd have to laugh. I'm the child of school teachers and my grandfather was an immigrant sugar laborer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14245531.post-64111344951394327582013-09-21T06:12:20.848-04:002013-09-21T06:12:20.848-04:00I've been trying to find hours and now I have ...I've been trying to find hours and now I have got such splendid work.<br /><a href="http://3scorecomparison.com" rel="nofollow">free credit score</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04799601496701307514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14245531.post-50812401511048445652013-09-16T11:53:43.392-04:002013-09-16T11:53:43.392-04:00she got a 50k nest egg from her family she claimed...she got a 50k nest egg from her family she claimed she made while working retail... she is somehow debt free after going to a university that is 40k a year, along with $2,100 a year in rent .. then she goes on to say she bought this 250K apt on her own when according to new york public record , she bought the apt at $345k with another buyer on the contract! she isn't normal,she is just another lying entitled brat who got money from mommy and daddy and tried to make us believe she did it all.. if that happened sure, but don't try to portray yourself like you are "normal" like the rest of usAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com