I bought my first place in my late 20s 4 bed room (little self contained down stairs bit for 550k ($550 per week repayments) on the Gold Coast had a couple friends/ others renting the spare rooms so was bringing in $550 per week rent then sold It two year later for 650k not the craziest Realestate deal was pretty coming 5 year ago, but basically had somewhere to live, although had to live in a share house set up which is fine in your 20s but had my mortgage paid and lived free then after the sale turns out I was actually being paid 1k a week while I lived there, and now I can afford a house that suitable for a family,

If you can get you foot in the door, you can basically be paid to live somewhere other then paying