posted on August 24, 2001 08:24:14 AM new
I was reading another topic on here (the 2,500 ebay bill one) and people were talking about the cost of thier mortgage. So I got the idea of starting a post about the subject of the prices of homes in different areas.
I am located in New Jersey, and the area that I live in, you can't touch a decent house for under 200,000. And 200g isn't buying you anything special either..most of the houses don't even have a basement! Taxes? Average would be 3000g.
This is very frustrating as I am in the market for a new house right now, and I am not looking to spend a mint becuase I do not plan on staying in the state for more than 5 years.
I am hoping to move out of state in a couple of years to get out of this expensive garbage pit of a state. The most crowded state in the nation at that, with approx. 1000 people per square mile, get me out of here!
Thanks, it will be interesting to compare! oh and btw-you do not get a lot of land with a house for 200g and under here, if you are really lucky, you will get one acre, and I mean lucky.
retro
posted on August 24, 2001 08:30:54 AM new
Depends on what you want. We got a nice one for $160 three years ago...because new ones were bottoming around $120 or so and they were crackerboxes.
This is the Atlanta area.
My wife and I hate what we call "Houseville" neighborhoods. Rows upon rows of barely varied, trendy houses. With 25' driveways and even less lawn.
The average these days for a home in Atlanta is pushing 200. Maybe 180 or so.
posted on August 24, 2001 08:41:16 AM new
Have a small one forsale right now. About 1000 feet, 1 bedroom, screened porch, storage room, garage, huge yard, great schools, quiet rural neighborhood within a 15 minute drive of Chattanooga (located Signal Mnt) for appraised value $37,500. Of course, needs work. Super cheap for the area, which generally runs 80T to 800T++. Its in the multiple listings book, Crye-Leike is carrying it.
posted on August 24, 2001 08:43:54 AM new
Well, in Alabama, you can get them in most any range you want.
In our immediate area, prices are running from the mid 200's to the mega millions.
Property on my left w/same acreage (9+ acres) & about same sf (4000+) sold 4 years ago for mid $400's. Property on my right w/same acreage but only 2000 sf just got an offer right at 500's. I hope I'm going to be doing the happy dance when selling time comes! We bought when it was still relatively "undiscovered"!
posted on August 24, 2001 09:20:23 AM new
According to last months century21 sales report average sold house in my town was 371.00. You cannot get a new house here for under 450 (3br), and they're building them bigger and bigger some in the millions,1 acre minimum zoning, 2 on the bigger ones.
But that's Connecticut
posted on August 24, 2001 09:25:01 AM new
Hmmm.... I thought about listing the house at Ebay, but the listing price is a flat $50. While there, I noticed the mobile homes aren't included in the real estate any longer. Wonder where they were moved to?
posted on August 24, 2001 09:34:08 AM new
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...oh...sorry. I live in California. I'm gonna cry now...well...I'll tell ya what...I'm getting a 2nd on my house in order to buy the 30'x150' wide lot next to me for $70,000. No, not a typo. It is about 45 degree slope too. Makes you wanna cry...but If we don't buy it someone will snap it up and build there and there goes my ocean view. My neighbor is selling it to us for what they paid for it...they had an offer for $90,000 from my other neighbors because he wants to cut the trees down that are on the lot because they block HIS view. Fortunately she loves me and won't sell to him. Anyway...that is a dinky dirt lot...I won't even tell you what houses go for here! (I'm on the coast just south of San Francisco).
Now...in OREGON...you can get major land for NOTHING. Beautiful land. Gorgeous land. For CHEAP. Of course there is no economy up there and you would pretty much have to live on roots and berries.
greybiscuit
posted on August 24, 2001 09:38:14 AM new
welcome to texas where everything is bigger and better and CHEAPER.
ryland home is developing houses (1500 in one division for 120,000 and up)
you can get a 3 bedroom house one level for 120,000/
of course it can go higher,sky is the limit here.
also plenty of house which sit on the market for a long time,usually foundation cracks,common down here.also condos and townhouses which have low owner occupancy rate and buyer cant buy because the lender said no way.
posted on August 24, 2001 09:39:21 AM new
Oregon sounds like a great place to build a resort for city folk. Was it in that area a bear jumped through the window and killed a woman?
posted on August 24, 2001 09:40:18 AM new
$400,000 for a slab floor crappy house. Many homes sell for $750,000 here sell for $200,000 in the boonies. Location, location, location.
posted on August 24, 2001 09:58:40 AM new
Just have to say that you don't want to move to Oregon. If a bear doesn't get you, a cougar probably will. LOL!
Actually I think the bear happened in another state (Alaska maybe? I can't remember).
In our area houses average around 200,000. One town over, they drop down to about 150,000.
If we mention that we live in an ebay house, doesn't that make this an ebay thread??
:0)
posted on August 24, 2001 10:42:19 AM new
Ok, as on Oregonian, I had to get in on this. We really do have cities, wild animals don't roam the streets. Yes, we have wilderness areas, deserts, forests etc... No, we don't all eat granola and we aren't all tree huggers. I think it's funny how the rest of the country views us, we aren't that much different than the rest of you. It's true you can get acres with a nice house for less than 200K. Right now we are looking to sell our 2 bd 1 bath for 85,000 and get a new house, in a subdivision 4 bd 2 bth for about 125,000 (my husband is an electrician and will be doing some work himself). Well, I am hungry, time for my granola, roots and berries yummmy!
posted on August 24, 2001 10:48:09 AM new
Mom bought her store for $8,000. It has a tower with a wonderful view - once you get up those doggone steps! Also, it was the first house in town to have running water - a stream ran thru the basement
My brother just bought his house for $22,000. The city is kicking in $20,000 for remodeling. It needs work but, hey, someone else is paying
My sister in law just bought a house for around $40,000. Simply gorgeous! It has the neatest "shabby chic" light in the kitchen!
It seems to me that we are quickly gaining a new number one employer around here:
posted on August 24, 2001 10:48:14 AM new
I don't live far from computerboy. Average home price is about $250,000 which is now just about average in most middle class areas. Mind you that's just middle class. I won't contemplate what the rich folk pay. Scary!!!!
posted on August 24, 2001 10:54:42 AM new
Because my wife and I both work at a school near downtown Los Angeles we thought we were out of luck when it came to getting a house. We ended up in Thousand Oaks. This is about 50 miles away from our work, but we ended up with a nice 2000 Sq Foot House on 14,000 Sq Feet of land (most of it flat now). The schools are in the top 10% in the state. We paid $222,000 in 1998 and it is now worth about $300,000. Most of southern california is expensive. If you find a place you can afford, you either have to drive 100 miles a day to get to work, or you have terrible schools and high crime. I guess I would rather drive.
posted on August 24, 2001 11:33:12 AM new
You can get a 3 br 2 ba 1400 sq ft home for $50,000- $70,000 here (NE FL). Being Florida, there is no basement or attic, concrete slab foundation. Or, you can pay $100,000 for a 443 sq ft condo on the ocean.
As to relevant to ebay, surely the moderator is in charge of that policing? I've noticed on many boards, people get to know each other and tend to discuss a variety of topics because they value the other posters' views, regardless of relevancy. One can always hit "next" if not interested.
posted on August 24, 2001 11:46:41 AM new
Some friends just bought a house here in Iowa, they paid $26,000, not a typo, for a three bedroom, 2 stall garage, 2 bath house. Our four bedroom would sell right now for around $65,000 but we live in a small lake community which is well known because of Buddy Holley so prices are higher here, but when we bought our home 6 years ago, we only paid $35,000 for it.
All of the towns around us, you can get a very nice home for well under $70,000 and most don't even come close to that.
Recently considered buying a house in our town, actually it was two houses, one to live in, one to rent, total price for both was $50,000, the one was three bedroom two bath, the other, 2 bedroom.
[ edited by dannkim on Aug 24, 2001 11:48 AM ]
posted on August 24, 2001 11:54:16 AM new
In my close-in Atlanta neighborhood (unincorporated area just outside city limits, very convenient to downtown) -- older homes range from $250,000 to $500,000.
New homes (McMansions) start around $750,000.
Up at the lake, waterfront tear-downs start at $695,000 and top over above $1 million.
Lake access runs from $175,000 to $500,000.
posted on August 24, 2001 11:58:18 AM new
Thank You everyone for replying to my thread! I know this subject is not technically relevant to ebay, but I surely didn't think anyone would mind. I was specifically asking my fellow ebayers, and the people on this board because there seem to be a lot of nice folk here willing to share thier opinions on things.
I am thinking about Texas, it seems like a nice place, though I haven't seen very much of it yet so I am not sure where abouts I would go. I am going to take a trip there sometime in the next year to check it out.
I drove across the country and got a little taste of everything and I must say my favorite was California but of course, that
place is waaay too expensive!
Something about Texas appeals to me, I hear the people are friendlier there than here too.
Anyhow thanks again
retro
posted on August 24, 2001 12:07:03 PM new
My friend moved to the woods. Bought a house for a cool million bucks. Hardest part, getting all those deer to fit in his truck.
Eventer-Whereabouts in Bama you from? You sound familiar. Then again, perhaps I've just been lurking around this pond too long. Ribit.
posted on August 24, 2001 12:11:42 PM new
Retro - I lived in Dallas in the 80s and loved it. Friendly people, yes, in a down home kind of way. No doubt there are highbrow literati in TX but I didn't meet them.
Best chicken fried steak ever. People really do wear cowboy hats and cowboy boots, without self-conciousness or irony.
Warning it is really really hot there. I mean really hot. And among the 'everything' that is bigger there are the bugs.
posted on August 24, 2001 12:11:45 PM new
Wow dankim, I am going to look up Iowa! I have never been there. Those are the lowest prices I have heard so far. I guess it's all relevant to the income you have and the amount of work out there, but that still seems very cheap.
As I expected, anything near a city it seems is very expensive in any state.
We have those mini mansion things popping up all over here too, I liked the term McMansion I just read lol.. I am going to use that one They range from 300,000 to 1 million. And keep in mind, to me, nothing is nice enough in NJ to spend that much, if I had half a mil to buy a house, trust me, it wouldn't be here!
I am just complaining because here, for the price, the houses you get just aren't worth it. A lot of people commute to New York City from here, so I suppose that is the attraction to NJ. You can't even get a decent townhouse here for under 200.
