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Q: Househunting Sux
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tigresacanela24
Especially eHealthy
One thing you have to understand about the real estate market here is that unless you're looking in an exclusive area you can get a beautiful house for less than $100K. Most people have beautiful houses in nice neighborhoods that only cost them about $60K. Now me, I'm looking for a house and the only ones i like are in neighborhoods that i can't afford to live in. It's driving me nuts. I've seen sooooo many houses lately and I hate all of them. For some reason all the houses that they're building now are ranches and cape cods. I hate both of those styles. They offer no space. I want either a provinical or a victorian and those houses carry a hefty price tag because they're mostly in older, exclusive neighborhoods. When they're dirt cheap it's because they're in a neighborhood that you can't walk down the street in. *sigh* I guess that I just didn't realize that looking for a house would be this much work. Okay, done griping.
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AyaMiyaki
Especially eHealthy
I know what you mean, .kay. (well, kind of). We've been looking for an affordable house for a few years now. That all went completely downhill when .rita hit our city. The price of real estate is through the roof now. The houses we can still afford are in the ghetto, literally, and in horrible school districts. And houses that before the hurricane would have been maybe $60k are now $120k . It's extremely frustrating.
We have our eye on a house in a decent neighborhood, but it needs a ton of work. It has some hurricane damage. We're really hoping the price is reasonable. We have no problem fixing it up if it's affordable and in a decent neighborhood! Now if only the owner would make his mind up on a price...
We have our eye on a house in a decent neighborhood, but it needs a ton of work. It has some hurricane damage. We're really hoping the price is reasonable. We have no problem fixing it up if it's affordable and in a decent neighborhood! Now if only the owner would make his mind up on a price...
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Eyes Wide Shut
Especially eHealthy
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tigresacanela24
Especially eHealthy
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AyaMiyaki
Especially eHealthy
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miasmamma
Experienced User
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tigresacanela24
Especially eHealthy
i found a sweet little house 4 br 2 ba on farmington road in penn hills (nice neighborhood) on sale for back taxes owed. not exactly what i want (not my style at all) but at least it's roomy.
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Eyes Wide Shut
Especially eHealthy
it's sad. Because many people want to rebuild.
People have to raise their homes 14ft to even get looked at for *Home owners*!!!!!!
People are actually raising their houses 14 ft....the love of a culture is an amazing thing.
It's just really hurting us in our house hunt. That's why we keep renting.
Sarah
People have to raise their homes 14ft to even get looked at for *Home owners*!!!!!!
People are actually raising their houses 14 ft....the love of a culture is an amazing thing.
It's just really hurting us in our house hunt. That's why we keep renting.
Sarah
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Eyes Wide Shut
Especially eHealthy
| tigresacanela24 wrote: |
| i found a sweet little house 4 br 2 ba on farmington road in penn hills (nice neighborhood) on sale for back taxes owed. not exactly what i want (not my style at all) but at least it's roomy.
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That's a nice house!!
Foreclosed homes are sometimes cheaper! Hell, i'd make *anything* my style for the right price!
Sarah
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miasmamma
Experienced User
| babymajic0506 wrote: |
| it's sad. Because many people want to rebuild.
People have to raise their homes 14ft to even get looked at for *Home owners*!!!!!! People are actually raising their houses 14 ft....the love of a culture is an amazing thing. It's just really hurting us in our house hunt. That's why we keep renting.
Sarah |
I am sorry about that...but yeah, our company is really dogging the people, i don't think it's right but eh, i digress.
Good luck to you and kay finding a place.
I am just glad that i have had mine for a while and they can't re-write my coverage or cancel it. :phew:
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tigresacanela24
Especially eHealthy
Plus I'm looking at these too
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AyaMiyaki
Especially eHealthy
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mamaTT
Extremely eHealthy
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tigresacanela24
Especially eHealthy
I love brick!!! There's tooo many frame houses out here and there's a lot of fires so they go up like paper. I live in a brick house right now... this is my current house....
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Bridget
Especially eHealthy
| babymajic0506 wrote: |
| Hell, i'd make *anything* my style for the right price! |
me too!
looking at houses make me sad because there's nothing for under $250k here and i'm so sick of living in this tiny condo. i feel like we're never going to be able to afford a house.
kay, i like the last one you posted!
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Eyes Wide Shut
Especially eHealthy
| miasmamma wrote: | ||
I am sorry about that...but yeah, our company is really dogging the people, i don't think it's right but eh, i digress. Good luck to you and kay finding a place. I am just glad that i have had mine for a while and they can't re-write my coverage or cancel it. :phew: |
It's not your fault!!! It's the .corp of .engineers for not building our levees to code!!! no namers!!!
I'm actually very very very nervous about this hurricane season!! We moved to a neighborhood that got 8-12 ft of water.
With a 25ft surge of water.
The .corps *supposedly* fixed the levees, I'm just not comfortable with believing them!!
Sarah
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*star*
Extremely eHealthy
| tigresacanela24 wrote: |
| Plus I'm looking at these too
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What neighborhood is that 2nd one in. It looks like it has a lot of potential. I love the porch.
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mc4ever02
Extremely eHealthy
Househunting here is insain. It has only recently started to plain out. Three years ago you could get a decent house for around 100K. Now, if you want a house in a decent (not good) neighborhood with 3 bedrooms....Good luck! I would die of a heartattack if I saw a house like that under 180 and buy at the drop of a hat if I wound one for under 200K. It is just plain crazy.
But allot of people bought with a variable interest rate loan trying to flip and now it has plained out and those people are good into bankruptcy. So we are hoping to buy at a decent rate in 6mos or so.
It is just plain crazy.
But allot of people bought with a variable interest rate loan trying to flip and now it has plained out and those people are good into bankruptcy. So we are hoping to buy at a decent rate in 6mos or so.
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tigresacanela24
Especially eHealthy
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tigresacanela24
Especially eHealthy
| *star* wrote: | ||
What neighborhood is that 2nd one in. It looks like it has a lot of potential. I love the porch. |
The first one is in swissvale/swisshelm park (i'm not sure because that area is a ton of areas in one) and the second is also in penn hills. The first one is a regular sale and the second one has to be auctioned. Maybe I'll get lucky and be the only one to bid!
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