A rough guess would be $60K of actual spending but that's without pricing my time. Pete promises video tomorrow.

My wife and I are in the process of buying right now. It's looking like it'll be in the $700-800k range. And that, my friends, is what a 3 bedroom, 1500 square foot starter home on a 1/10th of an acre costs here in LA.

Does that include the land purchase?

I spent one dollar for the land. Thanks Dad!

Under 150, but its worth three times that now and l dealt directly with the owner when I bought it so no realtors were involved and I made out there too.

$165k 18 months ago. Signed the papers five minutes before the housing market crashed. Typical Chambers luck. This place might bring $150 now that the hyperinflated prices have begun to spiral in.

We paid 215K in 1998 for 2800 sq ft on a 1/2 acre lot in a neighborhood with a pool, tennis courts, and a horses stable training area. The houses in our neighborhood now sell for 325k of similar size and squarefoot.

$175K 1993 remortaged subprime at $240K 2005 now worth $324K according to Zazzle. They put in new sewer and now the new houses being built around me are $900K. I chose wisely.

Zazzle? Isn't that the t-shirt site? My friends and I looked at one of those on line market price sites when a couple of them had houses for sale, but I can't remember the name. It was a pile of shit. Not one price was even in the ball park.

I think he means, zillow.com.

Zillow. I get those confused. That's why I've sold 34 identical copies of my house for $19.99.

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Renting right now, so will go with the house I previously owned, just down the street.

1925 Colonial, 3 bedroom, 2 bath, detached garage on decent sized lot - 1700 sf.

Bought it for $88k (two days from foreclosure) in 1996. Sold it in 2000 for $129K to a friend who remodeled it and re-sold it. It sold again 2 years ago for $340k.

Hoping to buy another house in this neighborhood, although we may be priced out of the market. It's an old, very small area near downtown that began to become popular (at about the time we bought here in '96) with the younger families.