Join COVID-19 Homebuying Rush, Develop Common Sense

Tom Purcell on Aug 24, 2020

You’re certainly going to need a “rainy day fund” when you own a home. In fact, your home knows when you create one - and exactly how much you have in it.

You see, every home has a sadistic sense of humor and will do something - say, explode its terra cotta sewage line on Thanksgiving morning - that causes you to create new curse words but, most of all, forces you to become ever more sensible.

You’ll become suspicious of smooth-talking politicians who promise all kinds of freebies without explaining how they’ll pay for them. You’ll realize that you, a hard-working, homeowning taxpayer, will foot the bill. You’ll realize you’re being bamboozled.

That will make you irritable and your irritability will make you pay closer attention and demand answers. If every voter had the sensibility you now have, imagine how much better our representatives - our whole government - would be.

Imagine how much better the country would be if every American had “sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts.”

Be cautious buying your first home, however. Low rates and high demand have prices rising fast. Be sure you’re making a sound decision, as MarketWatch covers.

The best way to do that? Ask a homeowner for advice.

©2020 Tom Purcell. Tom Purcell, author of "Misadventures of a 1970's Childhood," a humorous memoir available at amazon.com, is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review humor columnist and is nationally syndicated exclusively by Cagle Cartoons Inc. For info on using this column in your publication or website, contact Sales@cagle.com or call (805) 969-2829. Send comments to Tom at Tom@TomPurcell.com.