<p>I am more eager to get them started in retirement financing than I am to help with a house. Getting them educated on early retirement financing makes much more sense to me. Throwing a few thousand towards it or them at this early time will hopefully fire them up for the long term.</p>
<p>^^^^^That’s a nice idea as well.</p>
<p>We co-signed a mortgage 2 1/2 years ago with D1 in an area of Boston that is up and coming so we view it as an investment - the stipulation was that we provided the down payment; she makes the mortgage payments and has a roommate (it’s a two-bedroom). We have it set up so that, when the condo is ever sold, we each get a percentage of the profits depending on what percentage of equity we each have in the place. The condo has already seen a nice appreciation in a very short time; it’s a hot market where she lives thankfully, but it’s also one of the reasons she chose the area.</p>
<p>We would help. My inlaws helped my H buy his first house.
I think much depends on the area of the country. We suggested S buy a condo in our city when the market was down. H felt that the prices in our area would rise back up and it was an opportunity to buy in a very expensive part of the country.Our S declined feeling that he was not planning on living here long term. H felt that it would have been a good investment that could have been turned into a rental. The condo we suggested has gone up to the point where S can no longer afford to buy. </p>