What would you buy with a 50k budget?

So, I say that $50k is a good start. If you have the $8k - $10k in
annual expenses also figured into the budget, you may make it work.
Good Luck,
Mike

Mike I couldn't agree more. However isn't that why you and your
partner
would sit down and make a budget and agree to both, an hourly rate and
a monthly rate to be paid into an account that would need both
signatures
to write a check to pay these expenses? I don't belive the OP is going
into
this blindly ( or maybe they are), but at least they have realistic
numbers
to start with rather than asking what the best plane $15000 could buy.
Going on how your post reads, these two should buy something like a
piper 140 at $35000 and have a reserve of $15000 for repairs. Can't
disagree
with that either. In fact that is just the advice they are looking
for. But
if it where you, what would you buy?
Lou

What would I do with $50K?

pay off the remaining balance of the cherokee, replace the 30 yr old
linoleum in the kitchen, buy a new washing machine (that's almost
30 yr old, too!)

But then, it's a gender thing...