Is everyone on AAM loaded?

Glenbhoy...i hope you don't mind me asking this...but on another thread you're talking about buying a 500,000 house. do you mind me asking when did you change from the skint 26 year old,to someone who can finance a 500K mortgage. I'm trying to gauge how long someone can 'piss about' enjoying themselves, getting some life experience before they have to get back to the real world.

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Married well , no I jest! Buying a 500K house does'nt make one wealthy, it just means the bank lending criteria is lax! I would have been 29 before I was finished with the travelling, at that stage I had no capital at all. I also had an advantage in that i am very well qualified (this contributed to my being a skint 26yo), also all my 'life experiences' were also gained with an eye towards my future career, in otherwords, I may have been away travelling and blowing my meagre earnings, but the work was always going to stand me in good stead for any future employers - oh and as I mentioned above, the wife has a good income too. Fairplay to Kazbah, btw, as someone else said, not many 26yo's have anything like that.

If you want a more general comparison, theres a [broken link removed] on the AIB website.
Dunno how truthful/ useful it is but apparently I'm not doing too badly

That calculator doesn't work for me in FireFox 1.5.0.1 or Internet Explorer 6. It just requests age group, gross annual and net monthly income details and does nothing.

Update: Oh - it looks like you may need to force a refresh (Ctrl + F5) to get the buttons that control the calculator to display.

Damn it, I never realised I was so poor

Ivuernis,
Any chance I could get an interest in that insurance policy

That calculator gives me a score of 113 (4 times above average for my age group) or 186 if I include the life insurance.

Better not tell the relatives.

I'm a skint college student...excuse the name.

Were you in the red aswell?!!

GeneralZod said:

That calculator gives me a score of 113 (4 times above average for my age group) or 186 if I include the life insurance.

Better not tell the relatives.

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My score is 257, jusdt over 10 times the average for my age...and I'm in the pub 3 nights a week!

Do you own it?

Regardless, they'd probably be interested in offering you a 100% mortgage/'equity release' product. Resist the temptation, and buy their shares instead...