Housing - here's what a $$$ million gets you here

[NYC-SE]

Originally Posted by BennyLava

That money gets you a literal mansion in my part of TX lol

What part is that?

[Runethecursed]

Originally Posted by NYC-SE

What part is that?

throw a dart and if it doesnt hit Downtown Dallas...

[BennyLava]

Originally Posted by Runethecursed

throw a dart and if it doesnt hit Downtown Dallas...

Yep lol. I was in the process of buying a house when the real estate bubble popped, and prices were in the toilet. So I was looking at a lot of houses online, and there was a lot of real big, real nice stuff for under a million. There were some 6500 square foot and 8500 square foot houses for around $850k. At the time I really wished I had $850k. And those were at least within driving distance of the metroplex.

But the house would be largely empty because I wouldn't have had the money to fill it with all the right furniture lol

But those bubbles come and go, so if you simply waited, those kinds of prices would come back again. Also that was somewhat close to the metroplex. You get out into some smaller less populated areas, and the prices will still be that way. But those areas kind of suck in a way, you have to drive at least 1.5 hours to get to all the good stuff. But you may be looking at more like 2 hours.

[Runethecursed]

Originally Posted by BennyLava

But the house would be largely empty because I wouldn't have had the money to fill it with all the right furniture lol

In general any house Id buy would be pretty spartan

but Id have a bitchin workshop/garage...



What trips me up is the current POS house I have in Mera Mesa sold last year for 570 and is currently worth 603... the people I am renting from have literally done nothing, the bath tub is falling apart, the washing machine is broken and we got ants! but its still worth 33k more cause housing market... trips me something severe