I was looking at houses here and playing the 'if i win the lotto' game and I thought you might get a kick out of some of the listings and prices. No one want's to live in the middle of nowhere, so you can still buy a home pretty cheap in Bum Fark. House no.1.. has 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and acre of land and costs $19,000 dollars.
House no 2...new roof, central air...costs $12,900 dollars.
House no. 3 ...two bedrooms, one bath, is listed at $11,900.
Are these prices comparable to where you live? If you have no job that ties you down, this is the place to buy a house. It's pretty here, it's just boring. It's a loooooong way to the mall.
Are these prices comparable to where you live? If you have no job that ties you down, this is the place to buy a house. It's pretty here, it's just boring. It's a loooooong way to the mall.
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Holy cheap real estate! Houses here are over priced.
Older 1234 Sq. Ft., 4 Bedrooms, 2 Bathrooms, Oversized Heated Garage $339,200.00
Older Two bedrooms, one bath, no square footage listed so it must be tiny - $242,500
New 3 bedrooms, 3 baths 1412 square feet - $350,000
Start getting up into 2000 square foot houses and you're well over $400K
Frickin ridiculous.
I could be a land baron in Iowa lol.
For $50 grand here you can get a serious well kept old mansion.
I just found a two acre corner lot, in town, commercially zoned listed at 3 grand.
You've been bargain shopping. :) That middle place is dreamy. :)
UK house prices are stupid. We live in a 2 bedroom victorian built flat with a huge attic above a shop 18 miles outside of central london & it cost 200k pounds. My mum has a 1930's semi detached house about a mile away with 3 bedroom 2 baths & a large garden for this area & she gets offers put through her front door as there are 4 very high ranked state schools within 2 miles & it was last valued at 495k pounds.
More people under 30 are still living with their parent here than ever before, they can't afford the deposits & there is a a severe lack of 1st time buyer homes.
Maybe I will moved to Bum Fark Iowa. I can do boring. How do they like Thai people? hehe
Hmm I may have to move, I'm no where near done paying off our 128k mortage off, we could easily get 12k to pay off a house...but what's it like there?
with3love
Never mind, I looked up the stats. We need more diversity.
Thai people are exotic here. It's just a farm town. It's quiet and boring.
I just found our old public library for $49 grand. OMG, it's huge and gorgeous. Gothic brick. Original fixtures, central air, beautiful old trees. Holy fuck. I'm buying a lotto ticket.
House number 1 in my general area would be between $85,000 to $125,000. I'd take No 1 with it's big two car garage. Beats brushing the snow off your car in the winter.
Wait, knock my estimates down by $10,000. Just saw No. 1 only had two bedrooms.
In Philly, a two bedroom, 1 or 2 bath 15' rowhouse w/ tiny yard and on street parking would cost bwt $130 to $300K depending on the part of town. Approx 1100 sq ft.
*meant 15 ft wide rowhouse
Wow. Every one of those is a bargain. Many people here are upside down (or underwater as the current terminology goes) on their "starter" homes. I don't think you would find a dilapidated well-used chicken coop (read as "full of bird shit") on one acre, for less than 120,000, and that would be a bargain because of the land.
Every area has its problems, or downside. The downside here is that so many move here because it's well-known as a great place to live. The population has expanded at an incredible rate. With that come issues with schools, cost of real estate,traffic, etc. For me, the issues where you are would be tornadoes and snakes, though if I bought a house so inexpensively, I guess there would be space and money to make a storm shelter. I don't know as I could ever get along with the snakes, though. I envy your abllity to live in harmony with them.
What about the price of farms? I've been wondering how to get myself to live on a farm and they cost a lot more than I can afford.
Dunno. I wasn't hankering for a farm. Farm land is precious here. Many sell off the old homestead pretty cheap and keep the land though.
How much land do you want? I'll go look.
I can't speak for anyone else, but for me, at least 20 acres.
Yeah, DD, 20 or more acres so there's breathing room from all neighbors. Thanks for looking!
Are you serious? You can't even get a new car here (Ireland) for those prices! Even though the economy is in the sh*tter, house prices are still pretty high... How bad is living there? LOL
haha bubble ALL we want to do is live in thailand!! we love it there plus we can afford everything there. the place we live in (a tiny workers cottage) is worth a staggering $750,000 (luckily i got a lifelong low rental on it 20 years ago) melbourne has gone from being a great place to live on a low income to one of the three most expensive cities in the world. how did that happen? my son and his girlfriend will never be able to move out and when i die we lose the house... therefore i must never die.
hmmmm....... house no 2 DOES look good!
lia
WOW! These houses cost less than my RV did.
I had a stroke when I scrolled down to the prices you posted. A 1930's - 1940's 2 bedroom / 1 bath with an average of 1,700 sq. ft. goes for $1.2 Million in my neighborhood. And those are the ones that need some work! It's ludicrous and obnoxious. This same neighborhood was affordable back in the 90's when the same house went for $329,000.
Farmland with row crop is $2,000-$4,000 an acre. My brother bought that corner lot and converted that church into a house purchased for $10,000 not sure what he has put into it. Sturdy brick building 2,100 square feet. Big lot.
I can't believe the prices. The houses didn't look like there were many houses near by. I just need enough land that I can talk loudly in my yard w/o my neighbor hearing me.
The "young people" around here are building megahomes. They start $225,000 and go way up. They think their jobs are safe. I felt that way 25 yrs. ago. Many have already lost their jobs and their homes! And still they build because they feel it can never happen to them but it does.
I would love to live in an old gothic type building. As long as I had a plumber, carpenter, and an electrician living with me!
Those prices are crazy! Have they been foreclosed or is that true market price?
Average price for a 4 bedroom 2 bathroom 2 garage home on a 1/8th acre block is $450k in Adelaide SA, and we are one of the cheapest capital cities in Aus.
My friend just bought a castle in Kent, the main wing & east wing are public buildings, people come in the summer & view the grounds & rooms but the west wing has 4 beds 4 baths, it's own chapel, about 20 private acres & a lake. 1.6million pounds. Needless to say this is where I will be spending my weekends next summer. lol
Vanessa, these are not foreclosures.
Man, I want to spend time in the castle tooooo!
It looks to me, like you could buy a 20 acre farm for around $100 grand. Depending on the type of house on it, it could be cheaper or more. Some arcreages are much cheaper than that though depending on income property or just purdy woodland types. I saw one 10 acre, good well, remodled Victorian for $60 grand. It was nice.
If you just want privacy, do what I did. I bought an old fixer upper farm house. On either side of me was farm land. It went on for miles. My only neighbors were in the cemetary. I won't even tell you what I paid for the 3 bedroom house. You wouldn't believe me.
$100 grand for 20 acres and a fixer-upper sounds like it could be affordable to me. Got any links?
I think the same thing would cost closer to a minimum of $500 grand around here.
And I just noticed what you said about the old church - in any large city, that would be snapped up and turned into condos - condos that look like every other living space from Europe to Hawaii. They leave a marginal amount of original detail in order to market them as something special.
Off the topic, but I got to hate those international house hunting shows because no matter where they were hunting, the condos and houses looked like the showcases at any Home Depot and wtf happened to individuality?
Anyway, I'd rather have an old farm and farmhouse than a spanking new 'luxury' condo any day.
J
Lia, the sad part is we own about 100 acres in Thailand plus a few smaller 10 acre plots but the employment options there at the moment are non existent. Just trying to save enough to go back in a few years, build a house & possibly a resort & then I can get a degree & retrain to become a teacher.
I have the plan but lack the money. Story of my life!!!
Real Estate prices can get pretty ridiculous around here.
You get the 25k houses in the dumpy neighborhoods, the 10k mobile in the trailer park, the 400k matchbox house near the mall, the million+ dollar home in 1 acre of land with a view or the condo downtown Seattle. I have no clue what the parents 10 acres are worth now, the house has 2 bed, 1 bath, one huge garage/shop/storage, woodshed. The house itself is pretty small. There's also an external garage building across the driveway, a port for their guest trailer, and well water. Once you get out of the metro areas surrounding Seattle, there are lots of farmland acreage. What's funny tho, is that the bigger the land, the smaller the house, many times the house being a double-wide pre-fab home. Many people around here have horses, cows, sheep etc as pets if they own more than 2 acres of land.
Houses in my zip code (Olympia, Thurston County)
houses in the next county (Shelton, Mason County). Mason County is one of the cheapest ones to live. I would never live in Aberdeen (Grays Harbor County), though. Kurt Cobain's town is drepressing.
housing in the Seattle metro area
When you get farther south from the city the population decreases. Down in Oregon (Christina, am I right? :)) there are beautiful lands when you get south of Eugene. Sutherlin, where our friends live, podunk town, has very quiet and peaceful areas that are just beautiful.
Yes, you're right, Meissa. Lots of beautiful land down there. Here, too, but it is just so darn expensive.
Wow - that is just amazing!! Nice little houses for a song and dance. Here in Los Angeles, you can buy a one bedroom, one bath starter condo in "fixer" condition (and most likely a short sale or foreclosure) for around $300,000 in a decent neighborhood (less if you want bullets whizzing by your window at night!)
those prices are ridiculous! you can get a 1 bed/1 bath apartment for $300k here in Pasadena. Sort of envious that those houses cost less than my very average car
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