New house

Paige · ~Grand Champion~ Gold Medal Poster!

New house

HunterNellasmom · Post-a-Holic - Give this person a rabies shot!

*Sigh* I would LOVE to find a brand new house at that price here. Darn Colorado and all the developers that are taking over =P

That would be awesome for you guys! Good luck with everything! :)

StormyWinter · Moderator

Damn a 4 bedroom for 165????!!!!!!!! That house not new would be like 250+ New would run abour 350+ here! 165 would get you a 2\1 here!!!

Congrats!! I hope everything works out for you guys!

HunterNellasmom · Post-a-Holic - Give this person a rabies shot!

Lol, same here Stormy! Houses run about 200-250 here. New or 'used' lol. I think they're the same price because while the house is new, so is everything else. It's not established yet. Not a lot of trees, not a lot of ammenities (like Walmart nearby, lol). Whereas the older homes are in established neighborhoods and have huge yards. But a house that big would be like 300,000 brand new here.

puttin510 · ~Grand Champion~ Gold Medal Poster!

Geeze, a 4 bedroom house here would be around 6-7 hundred thousand. Man I want to move where you are.

Stormy, my boss has been talking about moving to florida or getting a vacation home there, but after spending three weeks there during the ren faire. He said forget it. Traffic is oddly worse than here.

Good luck on your desicion.

KatzPomDogz · You have been awarded the Posting Star of Honor!

My god guys! Where do you all live??? Houses here go for a LOT cheaper then that!!! Like, $70,000 - $120,000 here! Prices are rising slowly every year. I WISH we lived in a place where houses cost more! LOL

StormyWinter · Moderator

puttin510 wrote:

Stormy, my boss has been talking about moving to florida or getting a vacation home there, but after spending three weeks there during the ren faire. He said forget it. Traffic is oddly worse than here.

Traffic is horrible here. There are always people on the road no matter if it's 1PM or 1AM. I hate driving, I make hubby do all the driving. I'm glad I only work 2 miles down the road, I don't get road rage that quick yet. People always say how they hate driving here. I was at work the other day and there was this guy from CA, he said he rather drive in rush hour traffic in LA then here!!! Now thats BAD!

puttin510 · ~Grand Champion~ Gold Medal Poster!

And rush hour sucks. Thats mostly when people are getting off of work. I also try to avoid going shopping when school has just let out. Everybody drive their kids to school, and if they are not driven, there is the lunkhead kids that take their sweet time walking across the street. God that pisses me off.

But man it must be really bad over there.

Oh I am on the coastline of California Katz. You don't know how lucky you are to have lower costing homes.

Paige · ~Grand Champion~ Gold Medal Poster!

Real Estate is really cheap here in North Texas. Thia house right here is 340,000 4921 Quail Springs

and its brand new. Thats one reason why I love the market here. You can get one hell of a house for hardly anything.

KatzPomDogz · You have been awarded the Posting Star of Honor!

Puttin,
Actually, with hubby being in real estate, I would like to live where the houses cost MORE! LOL They are really cheap here but constantly on the rise......which is good for us!

HunterNellasmom · Post-a-Holic - Give this person a rabies shot!

Katz, I live in Colorado. And I'm not kidding, just 5 or 6 years ago, houses were around the 90,000 to 120,000 dollar range. *Maybe* 150,000-170,000 for the brand new ones. And they are already in the 220s, even for the older homes. It's crazy. You should move here if your husband is in real estate. House prices are jumping like crazy here.

I get bummed because where my inlaws live (the same area Jess lives) the housing is SO much more affordable and it's gorgeous there! I wish they would relocate hubby there, but it doesn't seem like that's going to happen for a few years. Would love to find acreage that doesn't cost 250,000 per lot. Which isn't even an acre by the way! =P

lil_exorcist · MAD DOG!

We just bought a bank foreclosure (so we got it for less than most people would.....and with some repairs in the making) with 3 bedrooms, 3 full baths, a nice decent size kitchen w/ double wall oven and a stove top, a fireplace room (as I call it) a seperate dining room and a family room. A full basement with only 200 sq ft. unfinished. Total living space 3005....we have aprox. 1/2 an acre (still trying to figure out where the boundary lines are as we pay city and county taxes and w/ a bank foreclosure they don't even know where our property lines are) And an in ground pool. Going price around here, I'm guessing about 250,000 or more and we got it for 199,900. OH geez, I just looked at Realtor.com and it was pulling houses w/ similar specs for 400,000!!!!

HunterNellasmom · Post-a-Holic - Give this person a rabies shot!

Wow! Congrats! A pool even? That would be soooooooooooo nice :) Be sure to check into the requirements for in-ground pools in your area. Where I live, if you have one, you HAVE to have it fenced with a warning sign for liability reasons (like if kids tried sneaking in and trying to use the pool) Often, if you fence it, it will lower your insurance as well. But that's in Colorado...

Kittys Mom · ~Best In Show~ Senior Board Member!

I was just pricing houses tonight in my area, and you are looking closer to a million for those larger places here...
Here's the ones that I want to get...
8th or 10th ave. Horse property.
http://www.realtor.com/FindHome/HomeListings.asp?locallnk=yes&frm=byzip&mnbed=0&mnbath=0&mnprice=0&mxprice=99999999&js=off&pgnum=7&fid=so&stype=&mnsqft=&mls=xmls&areaid=91006&poe=realtor&zp=91006&sbint=&vtsort=&sorttype=&typ=1&typ=4&x=39&y=8&sid=0655D88F9DA3C

lil_exorcist · MAD DOG!

OUch, those are some steep prices.

Hunter: I do know that the pool has to be fenced in, which it is. Unfortunately we won't be able to use it this year unless we can magically find the money to get the liner replaced and it in running condition.

puttin510 · ~Grand Champion~ Gold Medal Poster!

What Liner? Is it a regular tiled and cement pool?

Kitty, nice taste. Darn if houses would just go back to the 50's prices. Id be one happy camper.

Paige · ~Grand Champion~ Gold Medal Poster!

Wow!!! Kitty, those are some very steep prices. There is a house here we were looking at with 25 acres and it was close to 300 thousand....the house was built in 03. I know I couldn't afford to live in California. I guess I am lucky to live in such a cheap state.

puttin510 · ~Grand Champion~ Gold Medal Poster!

Yes you are, 5 blocks over, I am certain they are in the million dollar range. ovean veiw and all.

jawlaw · Moderator

Yep! It's cheap here in Texas. I have a friend that moved here from California. Her house was like 1200 sq ft in CA. She moved here and was able to buy a house in Southlake (Paige, you are probably familiar with Southlake) that had close to 4,000 sq. ft. And Soutlake is one of the most wealthy areas here!

Hope everyone is doing well!

lil_exorcist · MAD DOG!

Puttin: our pool is one that has a liner in it. I know there are some out there that instead of a liner they have painted cement and tile and what not, I just have never been fortunate enough to see on in person. Here's what I'm talking about:

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/lil_exorcist/detail?.dir=8d61&.dnm=a554re2.jpg&.src=ph

there's holes in the liner and who ever closed it up (the bank i think) used chicken fencing and a tarp NAILED between 2 two by fours....as you see the two by fours are in the pool itself and in some places the nails are exposed.

-- Edited by lil_exorcist at 09:34, 2006-03-24