After Six Years of Payments, My Dad Laughed and Said There Was No Account

save money, and pay them two thousand dollars a month. Every payment would go into a savings account in my name. In three or four years I’d have a down payment. I’d be buying a house before any of my friends.

I did the math in seconds. Two thousand a month, twenty-four thousand a year. My friends from college were signing apartment leases for twelve continue reading …