Unbelievable price to me but then comparing different regions of the country is meaningless. And there will always be pockets of real estate that do well because of the charachteristics of the are. Location etc... Good luck with it.

- Peter.

We won't know the taxes until the town assesses it, but my fairly educated guess is $5k-$6k a year.

Compared to some of the 150 year old ballooned framed, fire death traps, 2x3 joist, POS's we have torn down I'd rather stick with the OSB.

Old houses are great if they were expensive old houses, than they were built well. My favorite house is an 1890's victorian mansion that was built on the water in town. That thing is so solid we had 40 people upstairs and downstairs it was like the house was empty. No sound transfer. You could blast Ramstein on the 3rd floor and probably wouldn't hear it in the kitchen. The stonework in the basement is amazing, its also built like a bunker.

But that was a VERY pricey house in 1890, quality costs money.

Back before building codes you got exactly what you paid for, building codes have really helped bring even the cheap houses up to a standard. Personaly I hate old houses, if I can I'll tear it down and build new before fixing it up. Crunch the thing up in the basement with the machine, and haul it away. Cheaper and faster than fixing.:D

With all due respect, that house has no soul. I would rather purchase an old house that had some character and needed some work, than buy your spec house. It looks like a nice enough pad, just not feeling it, landscaping would help.

The older houses around here are pretty solid like the one you mentioned. I used to live in a 1912 house in an upstairs apartment, the floors were solid, and you could not really hear anyone else in the other apartments. The floor beams were huuuge. The second floor had 10" solid beams!

I agree on the cheap old houses, those are pretty scary.

5-6k in property taxes per year is close to 3x what they are here! :eek:

I just can't see why people think its worth it to pay so much for homes on the east/west/south coasts. You can get a nice big house with a large property near the coast of MI :D for well under 200k...and with low taxes.

Let me put my realtor hat on. There now. You need to do something with your yard, such as landscaping, or pray for 10 feet of snow.

On the other hand, if it really is cheap for Milford it may sell anyway. My sister just bought a pretty cruddy apartment style Condo in N. Seattle for $110k.

Oh yeah, on the bright side she got her mortgage rate locked in at 4.95%. I was shocked to hear they were below 5% again. That should help get some fence sitters to go out and buy. They can still take advantage of the $8k first time buyers incentive, which should really help the low end homes to move briskly for the next couple weeks.

With all due respect, that house has no soul. I would rather purchase an old house that had some character and needed some work, than buy your spec house. It looks like a nice enough pad, just not feeling it, landscaping would help.

How many trailers did it take to deliver it? I'm assuming the company that delivered the sections took the exposed area protective plastic down when they put it together, but there aren't any interior pictures so I'm not sure. Is the porta potty out front part of the 2.2 bathroom count?

Yo!!! man..


Hey hey hey, wanna buy a WATCH???


Whips open a trench coat.. :D:D:D:D

WRT the FSBO's in California, the realtors HATE those.


People who try that, oftn wake up to see the signs defaced and the house got egged overnight.

^^^Childish, but at least they don't burn them down.


I can almost feel sorry for some of those realtors, though, who work long long hours and have to put up with and be polite to totally retarded buyers that call them up at 11:00pm at night with some utterly stupid question that just occurred to them.


Not to mention the multiple spilts in commission between brokers and agents, different realty companies, and so on, that really beats down their commission.


Still, if you are out of the business, can't hurt to try a FSBO. Can you get them financing, or as a FSBO will you help them try? Care to have open houses every weekend, and be there to watch that your personal $hit doesn't get ripped off by looky loo's?

From the ad:

"This is a charming new construction, almost complete and ready to close in time for the $8,000 tax credit! 3 beds, 2.2 baths! It features hardwood floors throughout the first level, a finished basement, central air, washer and dryer on the first floor and a patio. This home is well located on a quite street and is within walking distance of area beach's and schools. Don't miss your opportunity to purchase one of the most reasonable priced new homes in Milford!"

1. It's not a "quite" street, it's a "quiet" street.
2. "Beaches" not "beach's".
3. It's "reasonably priced", not "reasonable priced".

Just trying to help... :)

Well the grass is working on growing and since my foot is broke the landscaping is going to take a bit longer. My dad will be planting stuff this weekend to help me out. I'll update the pictures when it starts to look green in a couple of weeks.

Its not sheetrocked yet so I didn't take any interior pictures. People don't have much imagination, you can't show them a new house until its sheetrocked.

I'm hoping that tax credit lures in a first time buyer, since this is the least expensive new home you can get in my city. A lot of Indians are in the market and they only buy new.

Jobs, our median income is probably about 3 times what your area of MI's is. Higher income means higher home prices.

CT also didn't have the crazy runup in prices like the west coast. At the height of the boom I might have been able to get another $75k-$100k for it.

You could buy two houses like that here in Texas and have plenty of money left to drink and gamble. I'd move here.

And in Texas you would probably also have something that people like to call "A Yard"

I've been through Milford a number of times and it seems that the closer you get to the shore the closer the houses get to one another. Personally I'd never be able to live in such a place. I need some grass to mow :) You have an address for this place Hattie?


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