Buying A House: C or D?

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

I don't know what kind of neighborhood this is in, but here's what http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1428-Commanche-Dr_Las-Vegas_NV_89169_M16044-62306?row=275K will get you out there.

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1428-Commanche-Dr_Las-Vegas_NV_89169_M16044-62306?row=2

http://p.rdcpix.com/v01/l9031f144-m34o.jpg

damn living in the eastern part of the country for my entire life i am so intrigued by the prospect of living in a desert landscape. that ranch house in any neighborhood near me in the east would look ugly as hell but in the desert it makes sense somehow

crystal armadillos and turquoise bolo ties await you

if my wife were up for it i'd move to albuquerque in a second. would definitely get a bolo tie. would need a hat too

I love the West, especially its lack of humidity, but it also takes a dogged roughshod sense of survival to really make it out there, something that back home, we call insanity.

that 175 k house is making me feel like i should ditch my entire life and restart as a personal trainer in las vegas

My work is potentially portable/doable remotely once I get more experience, sometimes I'm sort of fascinated by the idea of just moving to anyfuckingwhere cheap and saving up a ton of money. I do have a family to think of though.

well you could share some of that money with them

I dated someone for a bit who moved back to central Iowa but was still working remotely for her workplace in DC, and getting paid DC wages. Not bad if you can get it.

My work is potentially portable/doable remotely once I get more experience, sometimes I'm sort of fascinated by the idea of just moving to anyfuckingwhere cheap and saving up a ton of money. I do have a family to think of though.

Funny thing is sometimes I'll start looking up rural Arkansas property, like these 136 acres for http://www.landsofarkansas.com/arkansas/land-for-sale/136-acres-in-Pike-County-Arkansas/id/197645380K, and start thinking the same kind of thing.

Did I miss a memo on URL formatting?

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How rural is that? Because the satellite shot makes it look totally remote.

I don't get touring bands AND there are no houses in the metropolitan area for $55k that aren't burnt out shells.

A friend's retired parents just bought 200 acres in rural Missouri. They've never lived anywhere but the city or suburbs and never outside of Texas or Louisiana. Should be... interesting.

http://i.imgur.com/WZSCgXz.png

So remote that if you broke your leg, the bald eagles would feast upon you for days before the ranger showed up.

http://www.mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2014/10/14/_680_000_home_built_.html

Oof.

Oof.

I was wondering how one lot could cost so much more than its adjoining lot, but I guess it makes sense.

http://i.imgur.com/O7c32w3.png

http://i.imgur.com/gFDaiuu.png

$55,000 will buy you something near a Midwestern city, but it will probably be in a neglected area and need repairs.

Feeling pretty good more than a half year on about my house. I keep looking at real estate in the areas I was originally looking at and most all of the houses in the price range I paid for mine are crappy and I'd likely still be living in an apartment if I hadn't bought this one.

That's all. I'm just pretty pleased with myself. :)

you have to live in Orange, but, come on, can you even buy a studio apartment in a big city for this price?

http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Town-of-Orange-MA/house_type/56140630_zpid/397132_rid/500000-_price/1838-_mp/days_sort/42.675747,-72.142239,42.54739,-72.447796_rect/11_zm/0_mmm/1_rs/

That's bonkers. I'm tempted to gather up 13 friends and pool our money so we can live there "Real World" style.

Love the kitchen.