Be my neighbor and buy a house for as little as $15,000

[JackRipper]

Originally posted by: Crusader

Originally posted by: lrad50
Seems like a nice place to live.

I'll stick with So. Cal though .

Theres no way I'd live in that God forsaken socialist haven.
Ridiculous taxes, ridiculous automobile emissions standards, ridiculous amount of people in a small space (practically on top of each other, and for what?), oh and lots of PETA and ALF weirdos. Not to mention power grid failures.

I'd just rather not live like a rat.. and then watch my property value drop to $0 per square inch (because no one owns a whole acre) as the Big One hits and sinks half of that hell hole off the face of the USA.

I'm not a big fan of the south (or the northeast for that matter), in fact I could never, ever live in TN.. I'm a midwestern boy all the way and while I have no animosity for the south its just not home. For some reason I feel very at home when visiting Arizona.. that will be where I'll move if I leave the Saint Louis area.

TN is just so ho-dunk po-dunk 'well then there'.. I cant stand it personally. Like the OP, I cant even understand some southerners when they talk.

I understand what the TN guy means about enjoying the stars.. though you can get that for the same price in the boonies of any state.

Since i've been back to STL the houses have increased dramatically (not as bad as cali where i was originally from). Can't get anything decent/nice (2 story 3+Br 2+Ba) for less than 200k nemore. We are currently lookin all the way in O'Fallon just to find something comfortable. Then again my gf is hella picky...

Moving to TN would be a drastic change for us... I think i would be bored out of my mind + would actually miss the hecticness now and then. To each his own... but DAMN those houses are cheap.

On another not, doing a search for the zip, the houses in that city sure have a broad range. Wonder what most people there who have 150k-200k houses do for work.


JR

 

[O Hammer O is my gamertag]

PM'd.

 

[royalk4]

Originally posted by: Souka
My house has gone from for $300k when I bought it in 2001 to around $650k based on neighbors that have sold recently....and back in 2001, my house and property were worth more......

of course I ain't sellin cuz any house I buy will cost more than I sell for...heheh


housing cost is outta control up here in the Seattle area.............well, some places like mine

Your House did that because this market is stupid we have the highest cost of house/salary earned anywhere in the nation. People are buying 800 sqft Houses in balled for 800,000. it's really amazing.

 

[compgeek89]

Me like my $2,000,000 1 bedroom shack in hollywood

 

[czech09]

Originally posted by: royalk4

Originally posted by: Souka
My house has gone from for $300k when I bought it in 2001 to around $650k based on neighbors that have sold recently....and back in 2001, my house and property were worth more......

of course I ain't sellin cuz any house I buy will cost more than I sell for...heheh


housing cost is outta control up here in the Seattle area.............well, some places like mine

Your House did that because this market is stupid we have the highest cost of house/salary earned anywhere in the nation. People are buying 800 sqft Houses in balled for 800,000. it's really amazing.

Florida is even worse. My buddy bought a house in 1999 for $140k or so. He had an estimate done - it's worth about $450 now...

 

[Easygoing]

Funboy, I think you have done very well! You are wise to do what you did for your family. This sounds perfect for your situation and lifestyle. The simple life sound pretty good to me!

If your looking for real estate only as an investment, remember the three most important aspects of what to buy. LOCATION, LOCATION and LOCATION.
If you want a good place to raise your family and be debt free, do what he did.

 

[Uppie1414]

Man, those are cheap houses.

Like above, it's location, location, location. I just purchased two houses in my college neighboorhood about 2 blocks from the entrance to the school...owned one for a year, the other for about 3 months, and together they've went up about 15000 (after I fixed em up, though).

Good post!

 

[tealk]

Funboy please answer....what are the jobs ther ein town...any major companies.....any need for IT professionals? Do they make 50k+ a year?

What's fishy about all this is, all these houses are in like 3 towns in TN....that's ALOT of dirt cheap houses there.....just sounds weird.

 

[funboy6942]

I have mentioned and answered your question several times throughout the thread. As for jobs check out carrerbuilder.com and put in Jackson, Miland, Trenton, Union City, Dyer, and other surrounding cities and see what jobs may be up your alley. I am disabled and not working plus cannot search for everyone and I am sorry. But careerbuilder is in the Jackson paper and can give you a detailed idea of the jobs here and around the area.

 

[klingsor]

Too late, the cost of property in Costa is already through the roof. Nicaragua is the new Costa Rica.

Originally posted by: Naustica

I have my eye on Costa Rica coast for my retirement. But that's still ways off. I still have good 20-25 working years left in me.

 

[HankD]

Funboy please answer....what are the jobs ther ein town...any major companies.....any need for IT professionals? Do they make 50k+ a year?

At this cost of living will you need $50k?

And Funboy THANKS FOR ALL THE INFO!!!! it is an interesting counterpoint the Real Estate market in NJ.
Broadband, Walmart and UPS... sound like a great place to set up a mailorder business.

Hank

 

[ottothecow]

Somehow it would be fun though...

Telling people about how you drive a car that cost more than your house...

And proceeding to drive up in a minivan

 

[O Hammer O is my gamertag]

funboy - So do you live like in a town, or out in the country?

And did you get my PM?

 

[Samus]

Originally posted by: MathMan

Originally posted by: steaming79
i'll admit...those ARE cheap. especially since i'm a bay area native. but isn't TN like racist country?....

no... but apparently people from the bay area are...

i can't stop laughing about where this is going...haha

 

[SearchMaster]

My wife lived in a dinky town in southeast Kansas. She rented her first house for $100/mo with a purchase option at $9500 (this was in the early nineties). Her aunt and uncle live in a very nice but older 3000sf house that is worth ~$40K. But the problem is the same in all towns like that - if you don't want to work at Wal-mart, McDonald's, or for the government in some capacity, there's not a lot to do.

I have followed funboy's story for several years and what he did is perfect for his family situation. Congrats!

 

[jlbenedict]

Originally posted by: imhungry
http://www.realtor.com/FindHome/HomeLis...um=15&snumxlid=1053934365&lnksrc=00002

http://www.realtor.com/FindHome/HomeLis...um=16&snumxlid=1050947737&lnksrc=00002

http://www.realtor.com/FindHome/HomeLis...um=16&snumxlid=1054760379&lnksrc=00002


I thought these three were beautiful.

Holy fvck..
I live in the wrong state..
Here in northern Maryland, if you do not have a minimum of $300,000, your only options are dumps that are over 50 years old

 

[imported_Crusader]

Originally posted by: daclayman
Look what you get 30 mins outside Big Rapids for $22,500...

YeeHaw!

Pics (must see)

LOL.. thats your future in Tennessee?

Pennsylvania 108,629
South Dakota 109,394
North Carolina 121,624
Iowa 126,332
Wisconsin 148,893
Louisiana 159,049
Alabama 175,756
Mississippi 506,456

Looks like these states are the places to live if you want a peaceful and tolerant society. They might have less people, but its less hate crime regardless. I'm not sure if I believe Mississippi's rate though.

I can speak for the midwest and I think the north is the most tolerant place someone can pick. Less of a history of resentment because we were never based on a slave economy.

Microwave next to the tv?
I'd be moving that next to the couch on a wood stand, and putting popcorn ect on a lower shelf.. then you hardly even have to get up and it will look a helluva lot nicer than sitting next to your tv.



The simple fact about California is that its the biggest scam you could ever fall for.
Those property values WILL stop rising and will crash to next to nothing. In the meantime they have fires, blackouts, ect
Then later when the place falls of the face of the earth they'll all be like "my house was worth 10million, I want the US gov't to reimburse me!"
I think we should pass a law they are only getting the amount New Orleans survivors got.. esp since we def know a huge earthquake is coming or a fire is going to wipe it out.
We dont need to be paying californians 10million for their 2 bedroom house simply because they chose to live there. We all know those houses arent worth near what they sell for and thats just too bad people dont realize what true value is. They are paying for location, so we have no reason to reimburse them for valuation based on location if california falls off the face of the earth.. just the "best value" in the nation.

$30,000 and directions to Dyer Tennessee.

 

[imported_Crusader]

Originally posted by: jlbenedict

Originally posted by: imhungry
http://www.realtor.com/FindHome/HomeLis...um=15&snumxlid=1053934365&lnksrc=00002

http://www.realtor.com/FindHome/HomeLis...um=16&snumxlid=1050947737&lnksrc=00002

http://www.realtor.com/FindHome/HomeLis...um=16&snumxlid=1054760379&lnksrc=00002


I thought these three were beautiful.

Holy fvck..
I live in the wrong state..
Here in northern Maryland, if you do not have a minimum of $300,000, your only options are dumps that are over 50 years old

... :roll:

Thats not uncommon in almost all midwestern and southern states.

 

[deepinya]

Originally posted by: tealk
Funboy please answer....what are the jobs ther ein town...any major companies.....any need for IT professionals? Do they make 50k+ a year?

What's fishy about all this is, all these houses are in like 3 towns in TN....that's ALOT of dirt cheap houses there.....just sounds weird.

lol you think they will have jobs that pay you 50k+ when the houses are 15,000?

 

[judasmachine]

Originally posted by: steaming79
i'll admit...those ARE cheap. especially since i'm a bay area native. but isn't TN like racist country?....

My friend who is from Mississippi, and move to Tennessee said it was like moving from Hell to Heaven.

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

Originally posted by: deepinya

Originally posted by: tealk
Funboy please answer....what are the jobs ther ein town...any major companies.....any need for IT professionals? Do they make 50k+ a year?

What's fishy about all this is, all these houses are in like 3 towns in TN....that's ALOT of dirt cheap houses there.....just sounds weird.

lol you think they will have jobs that pay you 50k+ when the houses are 15,000?

I would settle for 30k for that cheap of property. My GF will finish her Masters here soon so together we could have a combined income of $60k or so. We're going to head down to Tennessee sometime this summer to check it out.

 

[imported_Condor]

Originally posted by: jlbenedict

Originally posted by: imhungry
http://www.realtor.com/FindHome/HomeLis...um=15&snumxlid=1053934365&lnksrc=00002

http://www.realtor.com/FindHome/HomeLis...um=16&snumxlid=1050947737&lnksrc=00002

http://www.realtor.com/FindHome/HomeLis...um=16&snumxlid=1054760379&lnksrc=00002


I thought these three were beautiful.

Holy fvck..
I live in the wrong state..
Here in northern Maryland, if you do not have a minimum of $300,000, your only options are dumps that are over 50 years old

We rented a dump in Arlington, VA. that would have sold for $319,000.00 the day we moved out. They would have bulldozed the house into the basement and built a McMansion on top of it for a million.

 

[tracerbullet]

I'm not sure if this will link correctly but I love it:

http://www.realtor.com/FindHome/PhotoGa...lid=1056274451&lnksrc=00045&photonum=2

The house is on a road named "Adkins Cemetery" and it's listed by "Elaine Slaughter"

 

[tooltime]

omg i didn't think homes were that inexpensive

 

[tooltime]

too bad the land is not in So cal