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Post by bronte73 on Jan 19, 2015 22:29:34 GMT -5
I have never really watched HGTV, so I was kind of shocked by the cost of the houses in the shows. Wowza! I know housing is very cheap around here, but man oh man!  |
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Post by paliz on Jan 20, 2015 6:54:17 GMT -5
Well I'm sure they "target" certain areas to begin with too.
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Post by countrygrl112 on Jan 20, 2015 6:59:17 GMT -5
I'm often shocked by that show. Housing is expensive here so sometimes it's crazy how little people pay for housing and sometimes it's crazy just how much people pay.
Then you have the "oh I hate that paint color. I really wanted move-in ready" people. IMO, having to paint but do nothing else is still move-in ready.
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Post by bronte73 on Jan 20, 2015 9:45:53 GMT -5
I'm often shocked by that show. Housing is expensive here so sometimes it's crazy how little people pay for housing and sometimes it's crazy just how much people pay. Then you have the "oh I hate that paint color. I really wanted move-in ready" people. IMO, having to paint but do nothing else is still move-in ready. I agree with you. I was kind of shocked by how MUCH house people wanted. Some of the couples had fairly large families so a large house made sense, but some of them were just a couple and maybe 1-2 kids and still wanted like 5 bathrooms and 3,000+ square feet of house. I just wouldn't want to mess with keeping up a house that big.  |
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Post by lucy on Jan 20, 2015 9:54:52 GMT -5
I turn on HGTV every once in a while, and just crack up. Who pays over 1/2 million for a house that needs to be totally gutted to make it livable? and really, do people want to live in a house that looks like a magazine cover? I might like some of the features, but would feel like i am at a hotel or something. Part of the joy is the time spent to turn a building into a family home, the whole "home-maker" thing..... I would feel more comfortable in the Walton's living room then any of the instant homes on those shows. ( but who wouldnt enjoy a kitchen redo, an extra bath, and more lighting ! |
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Post by footballbella on Jan 20, 2015 10:27:57 GMT -5
i'm often shocked on some for how CHEAP the houses are and the low cost of the renovations. having also grown up in san diego and here from my parents about costs of the houses they buy to redo for rentals or flips the costs isn't that hard to understand. I'd LOVE some of those kitchens and living rooms. It's really my style some of them. |
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Post by mdebbie on Jan 20, 2015 11:55:32 GMT -5
It is funny how people see it differently. If I really disliked a paint color, I wouldn't consider it move in ready because we rarely have time to do that kind of thing. We looked at one house with sponge painting in most rooms. I am not a fan of sponge painting so it was a definite no for me just because of the paint. Now we did buy a house with a lot of light neutral colors. Not our favorite either, but we could live with it for several years.
I am not surprised by the price differences. I lived in 2 drastically different housing markets as a kid.
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Post by bronte73 on Jan 20, 2015 12:10:36 GMT -5
It is funny how people see it differently. If I really disliked a paint color, I wouldn't consider it move in ready because we rarely have time to do that kind of thing. We looked at one house with sponge painting in most rooms. I am not a fan of sponge painting so it was a definite no for me just because of the paint. Now we did buy a house with a lot of light neutral colors. Not our favorite either, but we could live with it for several years. I am not surprised by the price differences. I lived in 2 drastically different housing markets as a kid. Painting wouldn't bother me because I do it. If I had to wait for dh to do it, then it might bother me more if it was a really stomach churning color or clashed horribly. I will say, we looked at a house and they had painted ALL the baseboards a different pastel color in each room. That WAS a big turn off for me because it would have been A LOT Of work to scrape and repaint all those baseboards. If I had absolutely LOVED every other thing about the house, I would have maybe considered it, but it was a big non-selling point for me at the time (I was 8 months preggo!). I know in my head prices are very different. I have relatives in Michigan and the same house I have here would cost about triple where they live, but it still kind of shocks me. I can't help wondering how anyone can afford to buy a house. We really are very fortunate in that we have very low housing costs here - shockingly low compared to places on either coast. You can get a lot of house here for around $100,000, never mind $300,000! |
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Post by Elliefunt - Debbie on Jan 21, 2015 10:01:19 GMT -5
Our housing prices are going up. We live in a blue-collar community that shares a school district with the very affluent community next door. My girls hear other kids comment about "It doesn't even have an in-ground pool" (oh, the horror!)
A church recently went on the market for 1.1 Million dollars. Agents are pushing it as a 1-3 house parcel of land. Someone will buy that and tear it down to make room for a mega house. Sad, it's happening more and more to churches. We see it with houses all the time. They buy the house, tear it down and rebuild what we call a McMansion.
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Post by yakky on Jan 21, 2015 15:18:31 GMT -5
Houses do get outlandishly expensive. Then I wonder, what on earth do you/they do for a living to have such an income to support that kind of house?! This teachers 1 income family here can't fathom that kinda moohla! Just a different world. (Not bad or good to clarify.. just not MY reality).
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