anywhere in U.S. not affected by housing boom/bubble?

[fogg88]

Are there any nice cities/communities left where you can still buy a really nice house for a quarter-mil, instead of it just getting you some shitty entry-level stucco piece of crap???

 

[Cuthbert]

you can get something decent in the nashville burbs for 250.

 

[sixxtoes]

if you like small hic towns in the mid-west, then sure you can buckaroo

 

[jaybois]

Westminster, Colorado

 

[jnevin]

Not if you want to be in an area with much to offer in the way of culture, ready access to a city, decent food, etc.

 

[nycgirl]

Not if you want to be in an area with much to offer in the way of culture, ready access to a city, decent food, etc.

I rather pay more and live in something small than live in a neighborhood or city that doesn't have what is referenced above.

 

[GoldenDelicious]

simple supply and demand in terms of blue collar labour and building materials mean that anywhere with a decent economy is affected. no way am i buying a house here anytime soon...its cheaper to rent than to buy, disgustingly enough.

 

[DJ_UFO]

Are there any nice cities/communities left where you can still buy a really nice house for a quarter-mil, instead of it just getting you some shitty entry-level stucco piece of crap???

There's A LOT of places with cheap land and cheap properties. And real nice places. I'm not gonna mention all of them but for example, Ocala, FL. You can get 2 acres and build your own house for around 120,000 total (nice house, 4/3 around 3,000 sq. ft.) You just need to go out from big cities. Concrete everywhere sucks.

 

[Whiskey]

Small town Illinois maing!! A low 200K house is HUGE here. 4 maybe 5 bedroom two story

Whiskey

 

[flex229]

They say Texas and Oklahoma werent affected as badly by the bubble as many other parts of the country.

 

[Hiatussin]

bubble? homes are still dirt cheap compared to where I am.

900 k euro for 3 story 5 bedroom thats 40x40 ft in floor surface and less than an acre of land. Ugly as hell, just a grey cube of bricks. thats more than a million dollars

 

[spongebob]

http://www.har.com/search/engine/indexdetail.cfm?mlnum=4908045&class=1&leadid=6&sTYPE=0&backButton=Y

http://www.har.com/search/engine/indexdetail.cfm?mlnum=7574746&class=1&leadid=6&sTYPE=0&backButton=Y

http://www.har.com/search/engine/indexdetail.cfm?mlnum=8154604&class=1&leadid=6&sTYPE=0&backButton=Y

250k gets you one of these in the outer houston area. great nieghborhoods, small town feel but short commute to all the jobs in houston, the gulf coast 40min south and river rapids 2hrs north. in the top 5 as far as public schools. decent taxes and very low crime.

these homes means your making roughly 150k or so in salary around here.

 

[Hiatussin]

http://www.har.com/search/engine/indexdetail.cfm?mlnum=4908045&class=1&leadid=6&sTYPE=0&backButton=Y

http://www.har.com/search/engine/indexdetail.cfm?mlnum=7574746&class=1&leadid=6&sTYPE=0&backButton=Y

http://www.har.com/search/engine/indexdetail.cfm?mlnum=8154604&class=1&leadid=6&sTYPE=0&backButton=Y

250k gets you one of these in the outer houston area. great nieghborhoods, small town feel but short commute to all the jobs in houston, the gulf coast 40min south and river rapids 2hrs north. in the top 5 as far as public schools. decent taxes and very low crime.

these homes means your making roughly 150k or so in salary around here.

would be twice that here

 

[pintoca]

would be twice that here

don't complain, can be worse

 

[fistfullofsteel]

http://www.har.com/search/engine/indexdetail.cfm?mlnum=4908045&class=1&leadid=6&sTYPE=0&backButton=Y

http://www.har.com/search/engine/indexdetail.cfm?mlnum=7574746&class=1&leadid=6&sTYPE=0&backButton=Y

http://www.har.com/search/engine/indexdetail.cfm?mlnum=8154604&class=1&leadid=6&sTYPE=0&backButton=Y

250k gets you one of these in the outer houston area. great nieghborhoods, small town feel but short commute to all the jobs in houston, the gulf coast 40min south and river rapids 2hrs north. in the top 5 as far as public schools. decent taxes and very low crime.

these homes means your making roughly 150k or so in salary around here.

those houses are at least 1-1.5 million in nj

 

[ironbabe]

I miss cheap houses. I don't miss them enough to leave florida and go back to Nashville though. I grew up there and it's a nice place (though i like murfreesboro tn better) but I just have salt water running through my veins and I need to play at the ocean - often.

We have been in FL 8 months but we aren't buying yet. Houses in my county have gone up super high, super fast over the last few years. But things seem to be dropping just a bit where I am and I'm wondering if things might fall a bit more before they go back up - at least here in my area. If it does, then I'll buy this house on the bay that I am renting.

But if you want a nice place to live with good jobs, cheap housing, and friendly people, check out Rutherford county Tennessee. In Murfreesboro/smyrna area you can buy a super nice house for 200 - 250. Best schools are in the blackman area of the county too. I sold a house there 9 mo ago.

 

[Lao Tzu]

Yup. Here in the midwest there never really was a housing boom. My aunt & uncle just bought a house for 65k. I was going to point out that in Houston you can get a 4-5 bedroom for 200k but spongebob already did.

 

[fogg88]

Thanks for all the posts. ...looks like TX or the Midwest are the last few holdouts for sanely-priced housing.

 

[musclemom]

Are there any nice cities/communities left where you can still buy a really nice house for a quarter-mil, instead of it just getting you some shitty entry-level stucco piece of crap???

Yeah, the fucking town I live in! It's an approximate 2 block area of geography that the g-damned houses are only worth about 25% to 35% more than they were 15 years ago

I will NEVER, EVER, EVER forgive my ex husband for demanding we buy a house here! Jesus, where I waanted to move the houses went up about 250% (no, I'm not shitting you). Places that were selling for $75,000 15 years ago are now selling for $250,000 and more.



I don't GET it!!! It's a decent urban/suburban area, convenient to major roads, walking distance to lots of stuff, across the street from a nice park, less than a mile from an elementary school that's partnered with a daycare center. It's a GREAT starter home!

Unfortunately, parking is for total SHIT, and the traffic patterns changed over the years and my house is now on the corner of a very busy intersection.

God I hate real estate ...

 

[jaybois]

Man how times change.

 

[jaybois]

As a mechanical contractor were fighting over bones here in Colorado.

 

[jaybois]

Westminster, Colorado

1 1/2- 3 hours away from 11 ski Areas, 15min to Boulder, 15 to Denver 3 bed 2 bath houses for under 200k.I should not post this, but it's what it is.

 

[manny78]

Man how times change.

Maybe in the US but here it's the same time and still going up. Damn 250k in Montréal will get you shit...

 

[jnevin]

You still can't really get much for $250K here. $300K gets you a small fixer-upper if you want to be in a decent part of town.

 

[Jabba The Slut]

If you wait 8-12 months, you could get something in downtown Chicago for around that amount...brand spankin new.

And, naturally, Im talking about a condo.

 

[rnch]

250K will buy you an extremely nice house in one of the high and dry suburbs of new orleans or a renovated historic home in city.

 

[jerseyrugger76]

Don't overlook the great state of Virginia. You could do well some place like Lynchburg, which is surprisingly nice despite the name.