Same here. I was looking at buying a house a little while back but it is just impossible out here for one person with my kind of income, and now it's even worse. There isn't anything here for less than $250k (unless you want to live in a 500 sq. ft. shack in a field, and even they go for $200k ). So, I stay in my apartment and wait. In the meantime throwing ~ $17k a year out the window; eesh, I hate to think about that.