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Housing - What $174,900 Will Get You
grinsandgiggles
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Found this site that shows what the average cost of a house will get you around the US. Thought I'd share after seeing quite a few threads lately about buying houses.
https://www.mint.com/blog/trends/average-housing-prices-in-the-u-s/?display=wide
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Re: Housing - What $174,900 Will Get You
That will get you maybe a 2b1b townhouse with thin walls, 1 parking spot & entry level carpet, appliances & cabinets where I live. That is why we still live in a apt.
Damn, I'm moving to Texas.
Cool site!
Sign me up! I've been to Dallas once and loved it!
That site makes me cry. I was reading yesterday about the new terms of the First Time Home Buyers credit extension that will hopefully go through shortly. It has a price limit of $800k. That sucks because I'm not sure we'll qualify. $800k around here will not necessarily get us anyplace I would want to live. Well, that's not quite true. It'll get us a house in a liveable neighborhood, but it will definitely need some remodeling.
LOL $175K would get you a studio co-op where I live.
BTW, highest property taxes in the country. Yup.
That's what we spent on our house 3 years ago....and we have a 1700 sq foot 3bd, 2 bath house. Just normal. That's about the average house around here... well nowadays, you could probably get a little nicer for that price!
I'm going to go hurl now.
That would have got you buttkiss in my hometown where I just moved from.
ditto that for Southern Cal. lol
I like the house in New Orleans and the one in Detroit.
I agree w/ the above about California. One reason I am excited about moving. Here we could afford a tiny ugly dump in Orange County. In Seattle we can afford a historic house w/ 2,000 SF w/ 4 bedrooms and a water view. Still expensive compared to rest of the country, but not compared to CA or the NY tri-state area.
This make me feel so sick-ish. We took the plunge and bought this year. We lived in the south for a short period of time and the homes were so gorgeous (and dirt cheap!). Our house is teeny and in need of major updating but there is NO way we can afford to do that at this point.
I don't know where they were in Denver to get that because no good area in the city would have that big of a house for that money...or they were way out in the burbs (which is what I suspect). In my zip all it would get you is a 800SF 2bd/1ba half a duplex. I was amazed how comparable most of the homes were...but immediate area makes a HUGE difference in price even w/in a city.
and nor cal (sf/bay area)
I live in Ohio too and it's an excellent place for the cost of living. Everything is so cheap, including the houses.
Yeah, check out Seattle
. And I live East of the lake, which is worse! The alternative would be a b!tch of a commute, though.
I live in Ohio too and its great for house prices. Around here for that price you would get probably a 4 br, 2-3 ba, basement, 2 car garage, updated house in the nice part of town. I have a 3 br 2 ba that needed a little work and spent a fraction of $174,900.