Buying A House: C or D?

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nice!

we had one more terrifying rain scare last night, I had to get up and throw towels down, but it was just a summer shower and it only leaked in one spot (which is all wood, no drywall). they are almost done rebuilding the eaves.

huzzah! good stuff JF

our home inspection turned up some troublesome stuff -- electrical stuff like extension cords used as permanent wiring, corrosion on the panel, also the roof turned out to be in rough shape -- so it started to look like a money pit. we're bailing. disappointed but also a bit relieved and grateful for the learning opportunity.

Holy shit, is this what the Austin housing market has come to? http://www.austinhomesearch.com/homes-for-sale/TX/Austin/78702/2410-E-11th-118932966#_

Wow, that's getting almost California level. Really good area?

Single lot for sale - Great opportunity and has a great view. Home on property has "good bones" but most likely a tear down.

lol that's fucking hilarious

$315,000

what a fuckin joke

not that boston is any different

If anyone in Atlanta or who wants to move to Atlanta could buy the house right next to me for super cheap, you'd be doing me a huge solid. The guy who rents it right now is a crummy neighbor who leaves his two dogs tethered to the porch all the time and they bark at any and every thing.

https://www.redfin.com/GA/Atlanta/3025-Park-St-30344/home/24574220

I kind of can't fathom that you can buy a house like that for $55,000 that close to a major city. Like I could more than buy it just with the equity I already have in my apartment, kind of makes me want to just pack up and move to Atlanta.

Man, that is cheap. Is there a rest if the story to it?

I hate typing on an ipad, btw.

That's pretty much the typical price for homes that haven't been modernized/renovated in this part of town (which is not the hippest part of town by any means, but it's not gross either). My front door to my office in midtown Atlanta in the mornings takes about 16 minutes by I-75.

I mean the pics make it look reasonably well-kept, although the "as is" in the ad makes me think maybe not.

I mean, thats less than what I payed in 2001 for a 1200SF house built in the 40s.

With Berber carpet.

I'm sure the interior pics were taken before the current tenant moved in. I have no idea what it might look like inside now, because this dude has two dogs tied to his porch and sprays the piss and shit off the porch each night with a hose.

I actually tracked down the guy who I bought my house from on Facebook and let him know it's for sale. He's a contractor and did a lot of the updating of my house before he sold it. He said at closing that he mainly focuses his efforts in the last couple years on this neighborhood, so perhaps he'll bite.

(those photos make that house look like it has massive subsidence problems)

(also, 3 bed / 2 bath and there are only 6 pictures? and two of those are of the outside)

I found out that I actually own a third of my neighbor's back garden!? I bought this house in April. The estate agent was apparently completely unaware of this.

BUILD! BUILD!

Yeah I want to put a little studio out there with a rollaway bed and a typewriter but the lovely Emma B says the idea makes her skin crawl, she can already imagine the damp and the spiders and the freezing air.

I got somewhat obsessed with my property lines this summer, only to to lose interest when I figured out the posts were buried six inches in the ground.

Which, yeah, I can shovel that, but I'd probably be at least halfway over on my neighbor's side too.

It's weird in that it's the farthest third of their garden that belongs to us. So we'd have this kind of avenue that then crooks around behind what's left of their garden.

I got my property surveyed and it turns out my entire lot is about two or three feet toward my neighbor to the south than I thought. As in, my property line on the north is literally the edge of my driveway and the giant tree (I would bet the trunk is between 4 and 5 feet in diameter) on the south is about 2/3 on my property.

I think surveyors generally use a metal detector to find the lot markers, pplains. You should borrow one, you might find buried treasure, too.

xp demand a percentage of the garden's yield

I think surveyors generally use a metal detector to find the lot markers, pplains. You should borrow one, you might find buried treasure, too.

I might be old, but I don't have those type of friends yet.

Haha

Used to irk me that my back neighbor north of the old house had his own little Michigan peninsula connected to my backyard. It was cut off from my property by the parcel line and cut off from him by the drainage ditch that snaked through the neighborhood. Dude had even built a little bridge over the ditch.

http://i.imgur.com/wGbe5ew.jpg

And look at my northeast corner. No one laid claim to that one really. Lot of outlaws and raccoons lived there.

Seems like a good place to bury treasure.

I kind of can't fathom that you can buy a house like that for $55,000 that close to a major city. Like I could more than buy it just with the equity I already have in my apartment, kind of makes me want to just pack up and move to Atlanta.

― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, October 14, 2014 12:34 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fucking seriously, i need to get the fuck out of boston. we're renting now and are not actually looking to buy but we wandered into an open house in our neighborhood, was just a nice, well-kept 3-bedroom house for $550,000. i knew it'd be high but i wasn't thinking that high, was guessing something like $400,000-$450,000, which is still about $200k or $150k out of our price range. basically we will have to leave boston if we want to buy a house

I mean, let's not ignore the elephant in the room here on why these properties are so cheap. As an ILXor once put it so eloquently,

Me moving to Little Rock is slightly more far-fetched than me giving birth to Nina Hagen.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Thursday, February 1, 2007 9:44 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This thread does seem to have more non-DC/LA/NY/SF/Chicago/Boston/London/etc. regulars than elsewhere on ILX. I may not get touring bands in my town but dammit I have a big back yard and a hot tub.

Yesterday I found out you can rent a huge 3-bedroom house for around $1200 USD southwest of Las Vegas, Nevada, in the US. That means if you buy property there, you can probably get a pretty damn good deal, and your monthly payments would be equal to a rental fee or less.

I had a look at the properties and they were rows of houses identical to each other. It was like a scene from Twin Peaks or something.

Frightening.

Total dud.

(I think the area is known as "Enterprise" or at least that's what Google tells me--in case you want to Google it yourself.)

what do you have against the american dream bro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUwUp-D_VV0

Las Vegas, for locals, is pretty economically depressed. There are a few industries but the real estate market is garbage (developments unfinished, property owned by people who are there only part time, horrible construction quality). I had some friends who lived out there due to a specific job and they bounced as soon as that job was done.

what's the life of a cirque du soleil performer like? is there a documentary for this?

My sister moved out there to work as a cast member on this.

Vegas was hit hard in the recession. Here's where President Obama went to prepare for one his 2012 debates:

http://i.imgur.com/qF9Ma5q.jpg

I am still really sad that I missed that particular attraction, and doubly sad that I was unable to see your sister at it, had I known that was a possibility.

My friends worked as a graphic designer and a video editor for UFC. I think you can guess which one of them moved there for a job.

our last building sold for $389k in 2004, and just sold again for $1.175 million this summer
it's a relief to be able to forget about the possibility of homeownership in my life

tbh I saw your sister interact with you on facebook once, clicked on her profile, and was very tempted to see if she knew the recipe for the warp core breach drink to give to my trekkie friends

xp

http://24.media.tumblr.com/eac83fe2127dc2e781e6b70d357687c4/tumblr_mrmnb5YodV1r5so4ho1_400.gif

How much do cirque performers, Vegas artists, dancers, etc. get paid in Vegas? Is it very little? Because that would explain the cost of housing.

I guess their prostitutes and strippers make better money?

there are a lot of service industry workers, yes

I think a fair number of people who make a decent wage actually live in neighboring Henderson as LV is not exactly a prime residential town

LV is a huge residential town. Keep in mind that those big casinos at the end of the strip aren't even in the city, technically.

yeah, but it kind of sucks