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Post by katlady on Feb 26, 2021 22:39:23 GMT
This is what I get:
"2 Bedroom Homes in San Diego $300,000 to $350,000 No current listings, please check back later."
ETA - Checking further, most everything I could find under $350K were either mobile homes or condos.
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Post by The Birdhouse Lady on Feb 26, 2021 22:46:54 GMT
Isn't the Roloff farm in Hillsboro?
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Post by busy on Feb 26, 2021 22:47:27 GMT
Isn't the Roloff farm in Hillsboro? Yes.
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Post by epeanymous on Feb 27, 2021 0:34:02 GMT
I just retired recently from consumer lending, and I can confirm that many people are in very poor financial positions, some don't even realize it. They are heavily mortgaged, lease their cars, and they have truly frightening amounts of credit card and student loan debt. I could discuss this topic for hours, but suffice to say, looking at people's credit reports for 20 years made me very, very careful with my money. Truly too, it was not my intention to pry into the financial business of any of the peas. Or pass judgement on them. But surely there must be teachers and policemen and people with just average middle class incomes and I often wonder how they afford to live in these places. Could I afford a $350,000 house? Maybe yes. But it would take a whole lot of trimming elsewhere to be able to do it. I'm not sure I'm willing to do that. My post was silly but truly I have sympathy for average people trying to afford to live in these areas. I mean, you do generally get paid more in a higher cost of living city—I make more at the same level than a comparable person at a school that isn’t in a really expensive city, and, while I don’t think police necessarily always choose to live in city borders here, our median police salary is about $150,000. Still, your point stands—there is a mismatch between salaries and housing prices that hits middle- and working-class families in big cities, and it is a real issue. I grew up in what had been an area of farming towns in central California, and by the late 80s/early 90s, a significant # of home-buyers were moving in and commuting to the SF Bay Area—a commute that is at least 90-100 miles and over two hours with any traffic.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Feb 27, 2021 0:37:36 GMT
The housing market sucks for buyers right now. Most houses go within a day or two. No matter how decrepit or unliveable the house actually is. No matter how dangerous or violent the neighborhood. Most buyers are commercial, looking to flip it, list it on Air B&B, or redevelop the land into multifamily housing units to rent. They buy with cash, well over asking price. Many are residents of neighboring, even more ridiculously expensive, states.
When the moratorium on evictions is up, I foresee a lot of families becoming homeless. Many families have seen their breadwinner's hours and/or wages cut.
And there is almost no such thing as affordable housing anymore.
People like me, people who have been saving for years, people who were close to being able to buy, are screwed. The housing area that I was looking at has gone up $150K in one year's time.
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Post by julie5 on Feb 27, 2021 0:38:40 GMT
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Post by busy on Feb 27, 2021 0:50:36 GMT
hahahahhaha A half-acre is a "nice-sized yard"!? That's GINORMOUS here. In my area, I found one house on the market with a half-acre lot and it's $2.1 million. Three new builds recently sold in the $900k - $1.1m range and they were on 0.24 acre lots. Most new construction is on 0.10 acre lots, and often even smaller.
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Post by lisacharlotte on Feb 27, 2021 1:22:55 GMT
I think if you want to buy a house an average person can afford, flyover country is the place to be. For people living in high price areas where prices have boomed, unless they became millionaires during their home ownership, they can't afford to sell and stay in the same area. In addition, the taxes in some states end up being unaffordable when house values increase to crazy prices.
But even in a flyover state, we are also dealing with rising property values and lack of existing housing stock. I'm in that boat now. I live in a high tax state. My house is appraised under $300K and my property taxes are over $6k. My assessed value has increased significantly every year for the last 5 years. I live in a large state geographically, with small population. The few large cities (basically Omaha/Lincoln metro) is footing the bill.
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Post by my3freaks on Feb 27, 2021 3:06:57 GMT
You can get a basic 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath, 2000+ sq ft colonial near me for around $350K. You may even be able to get over an acre of land with it. $349KI love the outside of that house, but good grief the pictures in that listing are horrible. The green carpets are awful too, and I think that refrigerator is older than me.
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Post by beaglemom on Feb 27, 2021 4:56:41 GMT
The closest thing is a mobile home in a 55+ community. Mobile HomeThis one just went on the market in our town. Green Gable Estates - $135,000,000 Friends of ours are family friends with the family that currently owns it and we attended a beautiful memorial service there for a very dear friend.
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Post by julie5 on Feb 27, 2021 14:49:12 GMT
hahahahhaha A half-acre is a "nice-sized yard"!? That's GINORMOUS here. In my area, I found one house on the market with a half-acre lot and it's $2.1 million. Three new builds recently sold in the $900k - $1.1m range and they were on 0.24 acre lots. Most new construction is on 0.10 acre lots, and often even smaller. oh wow. I know our average lot size is huge here. I live outside city limits on 10 acres. My property value is somewhere over $200k, the house is a standard 1200 sf house but it’s the lot that makes it. I wish I could have a better house but I love WHERE I live.
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Post by whipea on Feb 27, 2021 15:20:00 GMT
It is not just the prices of homes in South Florida, it is the homeowners insurance. In the past two years my insurance has gone up about 40%. I am not even on the coast or in a flood zone. Just received this year's bill and it is $5900.00 a year, $1600.00 higher than last year. Craziness! I will shop around and see if there is a better rate out there, but this is ridiculous.
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Post by buddysmom on Feb 27, 2021 15:28:49 GMT
It is not just the prices of homes in South Florida, it is the homeowners insurance. In the past two years my insurance has gone up about 40%. I am not even on the coast or in a flood zone. Just received this year's bill and it is $5900.00 a year, $1600.00 higher than last year. Craziness! I will shop around and see if there is a better rate out there, but this is ridiculous. I'm in central FL and our homeowners insurance gets cancelled every year-never had a claim. Then it goes up about 20%. Plus it comes due in July in the middle of hurricane season so our insurance broker has to scramble to find another company that will "accept" us. The choices are companies I've never heard of with crappy reviews so I don't know what would happen if I actually had a claim. We've got complicated insurance so it's not like just getting a quote from State Farm, etc. In fact I tried going through AAA and AARP which targeted me and then they wouldn't give us a quote.
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Post by Skellinton on Feb 27, 2021 16:20:37 GMT
Isn't the Roloff farm in Hillsboro? Hillsboro is pretty large geographically and spread out, as well as being very varied. There are spots that are highly developed with close packed houses and shopping centers, older style neighborhoods with houses and yard space, lots or farming type areas and Intel’s campus. It is getting more and more populated as everyone is spreading out in the Portland area. My aunt used to live on Alder, but it doesn’t appear to be too close to that home posted.
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Post by katlady on Feb 27, 2021 16:41:41 GMT
It is not just the prices of homes in South Florida, it is the homeowners insurance. In the past two years my insurance has gone up about 40%. I am not even on the coast or in a flood zone. Just received this year's bill and it is $5900.00 a year, $1600.00 higher than last year. Craziness! I will shop around and see if there is a better rate out there, but this is ridiculous. We have the same problem out here getting fire insurance. Many companies have cancelled people if they are thought to live too close to vegetation that can catch fire. Many of my neighbors had AAA and had their policies cancelled.
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Post by MichyM on Feb 27, 2021 17:08:51 GMT
Here's a listing that came up on my house hunt this morning. This is what 1M buys in Seattle. It is a block up from the home where I raised my son. It is less than half the size of the house we had for 18 years and must be one of the smaller homes in the area. Good neighborhood with great schools, but not one of the most highly coveted areas in Seattle. I am blown away: www.windermere.com/listing/126650646
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Post by Gennifer on Feb 27, 2021 17:47:18 GMT
I don’t have a single listing for a house under $350K in my zip code... only land. The cheapest house is a 1248sf house for $699K.
ETA: I did find a 694sf cabin (super rustic, built in the ‘50s) in the neighboring zip code, so about 35 minutes away from me. It’s priced at $350K.
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Post by epeanymous on Feb 27, 2021 17:57:49 GMT
Here's a listing that came up on my house hunt this morning. This is what 1M buys in Seattle. It is a block up from the home where I raised my son. It is less than half the size of the house we had for 18 years and must be one of the smaller homes in the area. Good neighborhood with great schools, but not one of the most highly coveted areas in Seattle. I am blown away: www.windermere.com/listing/126650646“Efficient use of square footage” yeeeesh! That’s nuts, even for here. I also feel like it looks more like it is set up to be an air b&b or a pied-a-terre than a family home (maybe it’s all that open shelving in the kitchen), and that’s not a convenient location for either.
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Post by busy on Feb 27, 2021 20:09:15 GMT
Here's a listing that came up on my house hunt this morning. This is what 1M buys in Seattle. It is a block up from the home where I raised my son. It is less than half the size of the house we had for 18 years and must be one of the smaller homes in the area. Good neighborhood with great schools, but not one of the most highly coveted areas in Seattle. I am blown away: www.windermere.com/listing/126650646My brother lives in Wallingford in a Craftsman that’s about the same size as that house. It’s been fully updated but is period-appropriate. From ONE window in the house, there’s a lake view. He bought it for $225k 20ish years ago. It’s now worth around $1.5 million. Absolutely ridiculous.
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Post by my3freaks on Feb 27, 2021 21:57:01 GMT
I'm in a suburb just south of Denver and the prices here have blown completely out of control. It really started when marijuana was first legalized in CO, and has just kept getting worse. Denver has a lot of tech companies, and a lot of commutable suburbs, so you have to go quite a ways out I think to start finding reasonable prices. There have been several houses in my neighborhood go "on the market" this month. They will have a sign outside saying "Coming soon" and then it's "Under Contract" almost immediately. They pretty much never actually get to the "For Sale" stage.
I'm kinda surprised how fast the turnover is considering our district seems to have driven all the good teachers away in the last few years. It definitely isn't what it was a decade or so ago.
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