# What "standard multiple" did you use when buying a house?

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**Created:** [March 26, 2008, 12:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-standard-multiple-did-you-use-when-buying-a-house/45679 "2008-03-26T12:51:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 10:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-standard-multiple-did-you-use-when-buying-a-house/45679/20 "2008-03-27T10:45:48Z")

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:lol: Well when I first bought my house I was really smart. Effectively what I did was take what I could afford and multiply it by 1.3. Yeah that sucked for a couple of years. All is well now though, thankfully.

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