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Originally posted by sfloriII
By the way, Rick, if you and your wife transplant that same house to northern Virginia outside DC, you'll get at least $350,000 for it!!  That's the hell I'm dealing with now in searching for my own place!!
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Eeewww!
That's one reason we're moving....out of state. The Seattle area's cost of living has just gotten too high for us, and we want a better house. We'd have to move about another 30 to 60 miles north and east to get something we can afford. It's not as bad as your area, but it's getting there. A friend of mine just sold his 5 lousy acres down a bit south of us, for $1.1 million
Sheesh! That's just land. No livable house on it. That with the unstable economy here, I'm moving on. We're heading to Utah where I have lots of family, and homes and the cost of living is alot better. We have relatives that offered to let us stay with them until we can move into a house. Can't beat that! I can get a decent home in the $90k to 125K range, which is about what our cracker-box here is worth. I have a couple job leads already, and it looks like I'll even be able to make a little more $$ to boot
I like Kerry's report. that's about what we were thinking, $10k to $20K to bring an old house like this up to date. But it sounds like you really have a fixer-upper!
Maybe it won't be so bad after all.
I have seen a few HUD homes for sale down there. Cheap!! That's a good idea too. Long as the main structure is solid, I can do the rest.