My brother is a putz, part II

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Originally Posted by GTsetGO

maybe the fact that he pays for the dirt cheap hotel and is frugal is the reason that he is able to pay cash for a 350k house.

Your brother and I have a lot of the same tendencies. Why spend a bunch of money on a hotel where you will hardly be? As long as it's clean and the beds are reasonably comfortable, it sounds like a fine plan to me.