House shopping, you decide.

[RACER X]

Originally Posted by Trip

It depends on your needs and wants. You want more, we want less. My wife wants more, I want less. It's opinion, neither of us are wrong. If you can afford more, good for you. There is a lot of people who wanted more and royally fucked up this country's housing market. So I say to them, they can go fuck themselves.

i agree completly

[unknownroad]

Originally Posted by Captain Morgan

I have to agree with trip. If I won a shit ton of money, I'd buy a bunch of land and build about a 1500 sq. ft. house with probably the same size garage. Then I'd put a track on my land and have a shit ton of fun with all my two wheel friends.

When we were setting up the deal to buy this house, part of my plan was to finance in a 2400 sq-ft garage... damn lender fucked it up

[unknownroad]

Originally Posted by RACER X

in houston, inner city means you also get inner city schools (which suck) so then add the cost of private school to your "cheap" house.

in houston, you buy a cheap house and your in n-hoods w/ alot of undesirables. you then you spend alot of $ to get a small house "in-town" thats nice then your still in the chity school, so then add exp house + private school......startin to add up.

Birth control FTMFW

[HurricaneHeather]

Originally Posted by RACER X

in houston, inner city means you also get inner city schools (which suck) so then add the cost of private school to your "cheap" house.

in houston, you buy a cheap house and your in n-hoods w/ alot of undesirables. you then you spend alot of $ to get a small house "in-town" thats nice then your still in the chity school, so then add exp house + private school......startin to add up.

Ed, didn't uyou say just a few months ago that there were craploads of foreclosures in your boring cookie cutter house neighborhood?

[shmike]

Originally Posted by RACER X

in houston, inner city means you also get inner city schools (which suck) so then add the cost of private school to your "cheap" house.

in houston, you buy a cheap house and your in n-hoods w/ alot of undesirables. you then you spend alot of $ to get a small house "in-town" thats nice then your still in the chity school, so then add exp house + private school......startin to add up.

Neither A nor B is cheap.

They are equally as expensive.

'slices example is exactly what we are talking about. Smaller house, more established neighborhood, closer to "town."

The schools are much better in neighborhood B.

Boca Raton doesn't have an "inner city".

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by RACER X

in houston, inner city means you also get inner city schools (which suck) so then add the cost of private school to your "cheap" house.

in houston, you buy a cheap house and your in n-hoods w/ alot of undesirables. you then you spend alot of $ to get a small house "in-town" thats nice then your still in the chity school, so then add exp house + private school......startin to add up.

So you are saying there are NO desireable neighborhoods closer to Houston.......I find that hard to believe. In every major city, there are old, established neighborhoods only a few miles from downtown, where the homes might be smaller but they cost just as much as one of those McMansions 30 miles away, because the neighborhood they're in has always been well-known and in-demand.

[HurricaneHeather]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

So you are saying there are NO desireable neighborhoods closer to the city.......I find that hard to believe. In every major city, there are old, established neighborhoods only a few miles from downtown, where the homes might be smaller but they cost just as much as one of those McMansions 30 miles away, because the neighborhood they're in is in demand.

Have you ever been to Houston?

There is nothing desirable about that whole area. Nothing.

[goof2]

Originally Posted by zed

about the same price but with A you have HOA to pay which raises the cost per month. does sound like a money issue, would be with me anyway.

Tina and I was just talking about HOA's, did you check to see if motorcycles were allowed in that gated community? you may not be able to ride that fiddy in the yard. better read the HOA agreement first.

Sure, the secondary costs have to be factored in. Shmike said that the HOA fee was high, but that is a relative term. Compared to house B with no HOA anything is high. In this area I have seen HOA fees from $20 per month to $120 per month.

It does sound like shmike has a money issue with house A, but I don't know if it is something he can't afford or something he doesn't want to pay. I assume it is something he doesn't want to pay simply because I hope he isn't thinking about putting in an offer on a house he can't afford.

True on the HOA and having a 50 track. Most will have an issue with that.

[RACER X]

Originally Posted by HurricaneHeather

Ed, didn't uyou say just a few months ago that there were craploads of foreclosures in your boring cookie cutter house neighborhood?

dunno about crapload there were 2 on my street, dunno about other streets. and 1 "weird" house where people bought 2+ yrs ago and never lived. so it looked crappy but it was never a F/C. co -worker has bought 1 of the F/C (4800sq ft, 2 people) , and it looks great now. the other was bought up, another HUGE house for 2 people.

i think there are more distressed sales in the "cheap" houses in tha back then where we're at.

[goof2]

Originally Posted by Trip

That was actually my plan too. I just didn't add the track part. It would be like 3-4 tracks in one. One big pavement, one that was attached to the big pavement, but went into the infield that was much tighter and shorter for fiddy motards. A portion of the big asphalt would jut off for some dirt section for a supermoto addition. And then have a full on dirt.

Your homeowners insurance company would absolutely love you.