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Post by Lexica on Jul 11, 2016 18:20:41 GMT
I know I have real estate on the brain right now since I have been looking at areas to possibly move to. This morning, I was sent a link to this site where they show you what $300,000 will buy in each state. I was really surprised with some of them. A small, older home in Hawaii for just over $300,000? I didn't think that was possible. And in of some of the other states, $300,000 will buy you an amazingly nice big home. In Texas, you get a McMansion! This may make me change my mind on Oregon. I don't know anyone living there, I just liked the area with all the green and waterfalls. I was in Oregon a couple of times as part of a team hired to provide ideas to redo their downtown area. I saw Brookings on the coast and Roseburg inland a bit in that manner. While in Roseburg, we took part of the day to go hiking (well, walking really, it was such a clean, wide path) to a beautiful waterfall area. Deep blue water and ferns growing everywhere. It was so beautiful and peaceful. I saw a brochure in the hotel we were in that talked about the number of accessible waterfalls in that area of the state. I want to hike to all of them. That is what put the idea in my head about moving to Oregon. But seeing how much house you can get in some of the other areas of the USA might just have me changing my mind. All I know for sure is I don't want to live in Southern California anymore. Plus, it is too freaking crowded and expensive. Take a look at this attached link. Are you surprised about what $300,000 will buy in your area? If you could choose any state to live in, and your budget was $300,000 for your home, where would you choose to live? And this is assuming no attachments to any specific area and no employment worries. Pretend you have the freedom to just choose an area to live in without any consideration for a job commute or schools for your kids. You have just retired and can live anywhere. What would appeal to you? www.purewow.com/home/houses-for-sale-300-thousand-dollars?utm_medium=email&utm_source=national&utm_campaign=State_Houses_2016_07_11_b&utm_content=Home_and_Garden_editorial
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Post by myshelly on Jul 11, 2016 18:22:33 GMT
I'm in TX.
$300,000 would get you a 5 bedroom/5 bath brand new build on a large lot in a very nice gated community.
Source: my sister just bought a house and that's what she got.
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Post by KelleeM on Jul 11, 2016 18:25:37 GMT
We're paying just under $200,000 for a two bedroom 1 1/2 bath townhouse about 20 miles north of Boston. Total of 1544 square feet including a garage.
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Post by dazeepetals on Jul 11, 2016 18:26:56 GMT
I'm in TX. $300,000 would get you a 5 bedroom/5 bath brand new build on a large lot in a very nice gated community. Source: my sister just bought a house and that's what she got. In the burbs. I live in Houston and the real estate market is good here. I live in the burbs and have a 4 bedroom/2.5 bath 2700 ft2 house and I paid less than $250k. It's only 5 years old. $300,000 in downtown Houston (i.e. in the loop) will get you a 1200 ft2 old house that needs major renovations. You MAY be able to find a condo for that price if you are lucky.
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Post by padresfan619 on Jul 11, 2016 18:28:32 GMT
San Diego.
A whole lot of nothing.
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Post by loco coco on Jul 11, 2016 18:29:13 GMT
I'm in TX. $300,000 would get you a 5 bedroom/5 bath brand new build on a large lot in a very nice gated community. Source: my sister just bought a house and that's what she got. I guess it depends on where in TX b/c in Dallas or the North Dallas burbs this isnt true.
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Post by freebird on Jul 11, 2016 18:29:18 GMT
$339k
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Post by cmpeter on Jul 11, 2016 18:29:48 GMT
I think you also need to look at the area...just because the house is $300K doesn't mean it's in a part of the state you would want to move to.
In my area of WA you can't find a house in that price range.
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Post by Basket1lady on Jul 11, 2016 18:32:44 GMT
We're paying just under $200,000 for a two bedroom 1 1/2 bath townhouse about 20 miles north of Boston. Total of 1544 square feet including a garage. How far north? We lived just west of Boston and when we moved there in 2009, we had a hard time finding a house to rent in the town we wanted. We paid over $3,000 in rent and another $800 in utilities in the winter months. But the schools were fabulous! We live in northern VA. $300,000 would buy you a house in the iffy part of town, but definitely not the worst part.
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Post by refugeepea on Jul 11, 2016 18:35:30 GMT
In my state? It varies, because it is huge! In my area, a whole lot of house because it is rural. I found one at $299,000; 5 bedrooms, 4 baths, 3550 sq. ft. on 0.24 acres.
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Post by basketdiva on Jul 11, 2016 18:36:56 GMT
In my area of the state (WA) you can buy much newer homes for that price and have a garage.
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Post by giatocj on Jul 11, 2016 18:36:56 GMT
We're paying just under $200,000 for a two bedroom 1 1/2 bath townhouse about 20 miles north of Boston. Total of 1544 square feet including a garage. That's pretty good for MA. In our area of the state (metrowest), $ 300K would get maybe a 2 bedroom, 1 bath fixer upper . Prices in this area are AWFUL!
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Post by JustCallMeMommy on Jul 11, 2016 18:37:32 GMT
In my area, it would get you a nice new 3,000 square foot home in a good neighborhood. If you went to a more rural town, it would get you a mansion.
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Post by secondlife on Jul 11, 2016 18:37:42 GMT
300k in my zip code (northern VA just outside the beltway - in the 66 corridor) is a nice 2/2 condo, but not a townhouse or a SFH of any size.
You can buy a nice older SFH in a well established neighborhood for 475-500k and up. Way up depending on what you're after.
My DH and I just last week looked at a lovely 4br house with a pool in his hometown thinking we might buy it as a vacation property and it was 60k. Same state, just opposite ends. That house would cost 600k where we live. It just varies so much.
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Post by monklady123 on Jul 11, 2016 18:39:01 GMT
There's no such things as "what $300,000 would buy in my state" because it would vary so much from one area to the next. In my part of Northern Virginia you can't find anything for less than $500,000-$600,000 unless you are VERY lucky. Houses sell here in hours unless they're waaaaay overpriced. There was a new house that went on the market a few blocks over for $2 million and no one bought that. They lowered it it $1.8 million and it sold. And it was bought by a young couple with two young children. I say to the fact that a young couple with young children bought that house because I have no idea how they can afford it. I guess they must be high-powered lawyers or Capitol Hill types or something. And, lest you think everyone who lives here is really wealthy, we're not. This is the kind of neighborhood that people don't move out of so a lot of us have lived here for years and years. When we bought ours it was in the very low $200s, and now it's worth much much MUCH more than that. Well, the land is. Not the house. If we ever sell our house will be torn down in a second so that they can build one of those $2 million ones. We're paying for location, just across the river from DC. Even though I'd love a bit larger house, and certainly a bigger kitchen, I'm happy that dh has a 15-minute commute rather than several hours.
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Post by myboysnme on Jul 11, 2016 18:39:36 GMT
I would choose the beach in a modest beach home anywhere from Maine to Florida. I want to wake up to the sun coming up over the water and fall asleep listening to the waves. I prefer to be on the ocean side if possible, not the bay side.
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Post by Rainy_Day_Woman on Jul 11, 2016 18:42:42 GMT
That is pretty neat. I am in Canada. Whenever I see pictures of Pea homes on here, I can't help but assume y'all are millionares but that is just my bias showing as 300k doesn't go very far around here. My 1200 sq foot condo at the edge of the city goes for twice that. It's just stupid. You can't get a 3 bed house in Toronto for less than 750K. That would be a starter home in need of reno. That said, in Ontario in general you could get a semi-detached 3 bedroom for 300k but you would have to be at least 1.5 hours from Toronto and it would be a major fixer-upper. If you could go 3 hours, 300k night get you a detached house. Not really commutable if you have to work in a major city.
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Post by scrappyesq on Jul 11, 2016 18:42:54 GMT
NYC: Nothing.
Or maybe a parking space.
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Post by MadamG2U on Jul 11, 2016 18:43:13 GMT
I live in Brooklyn, NY $300,000 in my neighborhood would get you a closet
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Jul 11, 2016 18:45:14 GMT
This is making me want to move to the US. I live in the UK and I just looked up the equivalent value (£250,000) in my home town. If you moved here, that would get you a 1 or 2 bedroom apartment in the new part, or a 3 bedroom terraced house in the older part. And our houses are small. It's a small island.
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Post by refugeepea on Jul 11, 2016 18:45:22 GMT
Whenever I see pictures of Pea homes on here, I can't help but assume y'all are millionares but that is just my bias showing as 300k doesn't go very far around here. My 1200 sq foot condo at the edge of the city goes for twice that. It's just stupid. You can't get a 3 bed house in Toronto for less than 750K. That would be a starter home in need of reno. I couldn't afford a $300 K home, so that should make you feel better
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2016 18:49:29 GMT
Varies widely across the state. In some areas, virtually nothing. In other areas, you could get a pretty nice place.
About Oregon...
I truly love living here. I can't imagine living anywhere else by choice. But, the state is big and diverse and while it is beautiful almost everywhere, the economic vitality, the demographics, the cost of living, etc. can vary widely from place to place.
Brookings attracts a lot of retirees because it's warmer than most places on the Oregon coast. The coast in general is isolated - it's at the very least an hour to get to a city of any size inland, which isn't necessarily a problem, but it can be. We lived in Astoria for 10 years and it's about 90 minutes to Portland. We were OK with it, but a lot of transplants couldn't take only having the services available in a town of 10,000 and would leave after a year or two. Also, winters on the Oregon coast can be difficult, weather-wise. Brookings is even more isolated - it's about two hours to Grants Pass, which is the closest city of any size, and it's only 35,000. That's not necessarily a problem, but it's something you have to consider going in. Also, going over the coast range in the winter can be a challenge, so there are times when you may not be able to go inland due to weather.
Roseburg is not one of my favorite parts of Oregon, but it's warm there (well, part of the year) and it's easy to get a lot of other places in the state from there. It's economically pretty depressed, and as a result, cost of living is lower than many other parts of the state. It is decidedly conservative, so if you think of Oregon as liberal and that matters to you, Roseburg wouldn't be a great fit.
The outlying areas of Salem and Eugene are good bets to be able to get a nice balance of the green lushness of Oregon, with proximity to cities, for reasonable prices.
The Portland metro area, Bend, and Ashland are all fairly expensive.
There are lots of parts of eastern Oregon that are very affordable, but if you are looking for green, waterfalls, etc. - it sounds like the west side is what you are looking for. I personally love the high desert of central (especially) and eastern Oregon, but it's VERY different from the west side, and is even more remote than the coast. Bend is a good sized city - about 100,000 now - so you can get about any service you need there, but if you do need to go to Portland/Salem/Eugene, you have to cross the Cascades and there are limited routes for doing that, and some of the passes close in the winter.
If you have any questions about Oregon, please feel free to message me. I love it here and know most of the state - I'd be happy to point you to resources or answer any questions.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2016 18:50:35 GMT
I live in the cheap side of California...AKA dead smack in the center of Hell. Our house is right around $300,000K and it's a 5/3 with game room, 3,000 square feet. For California standards it's inexpensive to live here but the trade off is you have to live in the ugliest part of the state.
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Post by alissa103 on Jul 11, 2016 18:50:41 GMT
The way the market is now (this area is hot), you could probably get a nicer, upscale condo or townhouse, 2-3 bedrooms, for that. A single family 3+ bedroom home is nearly impossible to find in that range unless there's a problem with the house or it needs a lot of work.
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Post by scrapngranny on Jul 11, 2016 18:51:16 GMT
In central California you can get a nice 3-4 bedroom house for $300,000. The only downside I have with our area is fairly hot summers. We do live pretty close to Yosemite, as a positive note.
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Post by STBC on Jul 11, 2016 18:52:21 GMT
There's no such things as "what $300,000 would buy in my state" because it would vary so much from one area to the next. I agree...that price would buy a very large, nice home in one part of this state, or a lot of land and a modest home in another part, or in yet another part of the state might be enough to buy a condo. Depends on what type of area you're looking for - urban, suburban, rural. $300,000 in this area of the state would buy a nice home 4+ bedrooms, +/- 3,000 sf.
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Post by peasapie on Jul 11, 2016 18:53:01 GMT
$300k couldn't buy a studio apt when we left Manhattan last year. In NJ, new 3-4 Br homes average around $600k to start.
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Post by julieb on Jul 11, 2016 18:53:51 GMT
In central California you can get a nice 3-4 bedroom house for $300,000. The only downside I have with our area is fairly hot summers. We do live pretty close to Yosemite, as a positive note. I would live there! We were in Yosemite last May and I loved it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2016 18:57:33 GMT
There was a new house that went on the market a few blocks over for $2 million and no one bought that. They lowered it it $1.8 million and it sold. And it was bought by a young couple with two young children. I say to the fact that a young couple with young children bought that house because I have no idea how they can afford it. I guess they must be high-powered lawyers or Capitol Hill types or something. Another from Northern VA checking in. Our neighborhood houses are 1940s era duplexes (though some realtors list them as townhouses). About 850sf if you don't count the basement; about 1200sf if you do (or if you have an egress window there). Median prices about 5 years ago were $325,000 to $350,000 - due to how close we are to the metro. Now, most homes are listing around $450,000 and selling within a matter of days. I agree with the above about lawyers and Capitol Hill couples affording the higher prices. When we first moved to DC, we rented a condo in Capitol Hill (I think we were one of only two units in the building who rented; the selling prices were insane). The couple who lived below us are both lawyers, and they put their condo on the market after the birth of their first child. We ran into them a few months ago and found out that they bought and renovated a Capitol Hill townhouse ($$$) after their second child was born, and decided to keep the condo as a rental. I can't even imagine how much equity they've built that way. SaveSave
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Post by seikashaven on Jul 11, 2016 18:57:35 GMT
In Canada and you might get a crappy apartment for $300,000 where I live. Even little town homes and condos start at more that.
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