A Silicon Valley down payment could buy you an entire house in much of the U.S
&gt; “My client was maxed out,” Wang said. “He wanted to be self-sufficient: `I’m independent. I don’t want my parents to help me.’ But now he’s realized he’s got to have that conversation with his mother to borrow a couple of hundred thousand dollars, just in case that situation happens again.”<p>Must be nice to have parents who can just loan you ~$200k to make an offer on a 2 million dollar house in Sunnyvale of all places.<p>I can&#x27;t get over how ridiculous the market in the bay area is right now.