Thank you, she is about to get hooked up for long term ekg monitoring to see what happens.

She has already had a ton of bloodwork, urine test, head xray, chest xray, lp drain and now been closely monitored for almost 12 hrs with no results as of yet.

We might be having to get an mri to help locate the problem depending on the ekg results.

sorry to hear that.....hopefully they figure it out d soon

Pretty solid advice here. 1 car loan wouldn't be bad but you want the CC balance gone, and the 20% down.

I just bought about 1.5 years ago and my deal to myself was - have 20% down. I had no CC debt and my car was paid off.

Sending lots of healing vibes to your daughter!

This is a good resource:

https://www.bogleheads.org/

It's kind of like this forum, but well behaved and finance-focused.

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So no fun? Lol

As far as our daughter, no news yet, no episodes sonce 7 last night either. We might have to do an mri to get a better idea.

I do not think 20% is enough weighed against payments, cost of ownership, changes in market. You could be wiped out and lose your home for any number of reasons, its a false sense of security relative to keeping that money set aside, renting and buying later

How long to save another 20%

I say this from the perspective of having had a series of "life" events this last 18 months and 20% down on a property and 6 months salary in the bank and i'd have lost the property

If the OP wants to build. Land will always be there.

Being pressured to own a home because its expected with a low down payment seems to increase risks you can not mitigate. Literally; once you own it, you own it.

Last 18 months i've had apartment burn down and had to pay mortgage and am still waiting insurance settlement, flood in house - could not make it up (fire and water), lost job and some other fun one off expenses. I have gone as close to the cash flow indebtedness edge i ever want to and 20% down might have pushed me over the proverbial edge.

How old is she? You certainly have my sympathies. I can't even imagine...

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She will be 3 months on friday

It is definitely heartbreaking

Sounds as if we are getting discharged today, nothing abnormal on eeg or any of the other tests. So no real answers as to what happened. Hopefully it was a freak thing that doesnt happen again.