 del bombsley offers some tips on a better lifestyle i put two thousand dollars down out of my pocket to buy a house it was ten percent down which was twenty five hundred five hundred closing costs which was three thousand but the tenant before i moved in the broker had leased the house and he gave me a closing a check for five hundred dollars for the rent plus five hundred dollars for the security deposit so i had a thousand dollars i only brought two thousand dollars to the table that house today is worth over a hundred and fifty thousand bucks in excess of 150 000