How am I Going to Afford This?

So, Kirsten and I are looking into moving out of our apartment and into a place that I or we actually own. Even if it's a condo, with the associated condo fees, the math is pretty simple - right now, we're throwing all of our rent down a hole, basically, and we get nothing in return.

Should we buy a house, we'll be throwing our money into something that will (in theory) give us our money back.

Should we buy a condo, we'll be throwing our money into something that will (in theory) give us most of our money back, and the rest, such as the condo fees, goes into a hole, just like rent. It just happens to be a smaller hole.

Either one is a step up from where we are now. Which is precisely why we're looking to move - and we're looking at our first house today. I don't know that we'll buy it (in fact, I'm sure we won't because it's out of our price range), but it's good to know what we can expect to get for what we can afford.

With that little life update out of the way, on to the NFL picks!

Saturday games:
NE
NYG
DEN

Sunday games:
ARI
CAR
MIA
STL (This is how far the Eagles have fallen)
PIT
IND
SEA
JAX
CIN
CLE
WAS
ATL

Monday Night Craptacular:
GB