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View Poll Results: How much did your house cost?
under $100,000 7 21.21%
$100,000 - $150,000 7 21.21%
$150,000 - $200,000 3 9.09%
$200,000 - $250,000 4 12.12%
$250,000 - $300,000 5 15.15%
$300,000 - $350,000 2 6.06%
$350,000 - $400,000 2 6.06%
$400,000 - $450,000 0 0%
$450,000 - $500,000 0 0%
over $500,000 3 9.09%
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Old 01-25-2008, 11:12 AM   #1
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How much did your house cost?

This has been nagging at me for awhile now, but I haven't posted anything because I couldn't figure out how to describe it politely. But I'm feeling antsy this morning, so screw it.

After seeing photos and watching the various Dwellar Dwellings videos, I have been rather surprised to see how much bigger our house seems to be, because I know that we are not by any means rich, and most of the dwellars are older and more established in their careers than we are, to boot. I am convinced this is because of the local housing markets, and that houses in our little out-in-the-boonies suburb are just dirt cheap compared to everywhere else. So I just thought I'd disregard all social graces and find out for sure.
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Old 01-25-2008, 11:13 AM   #2
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I think ours was 259K
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Old 01-25-2008, 11:14 AM   #3
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I was nice enough to put up an anonymous poll for ya, speedy.
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Old 01-25-2008, 11:18 AM   #4
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$69,500. Of course that was 1978 and everything around me is selling for $500k and up.
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Old 01-25-2008, 11:22 AM   #5
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~124K, 1995 Lawrence, KS (a 'college' town so kinda high for the region -- median price is ~235K now)
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Old 01-25-2008, 11:34 AM   #6
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Ours was $194,000 back in 1997.

It's assessed at $588,600 for 2008. It is much cheaper than most other houses in the neighborhood. A bit smaller too. Built in 1945.
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Old 01-25-2008, 11:37 AM   #7
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I was nice enough to put up an anonymous poll for ya, speedy.
meh...i was wrong anyway. jinx has chastised me soundly.
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Old 01-25-2008, 12:13 PM   #8
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We can't afford to buy a house where we live. I put 300-350k, though, because that is what our rented house would cost if we bought it.
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Old 01-25-2008, 12:47 PM   #9
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We paid 340k for our place about 18months ago. It's now valued at over 500k. I checked the 300-350 box though for the purposes of this poll.
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Old 01-25-2008, 01:02 PM   #10
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we paid about 79K for 1700 square feet and about 3 ac of land
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Old 01-25-2008, 01:03 PM   #11
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We can't afford to buy a house where we live.
We wouldn't be able to buy a house where we live either if we had to start over from scratch. It was all just dumb luck with the timing. We bought before the bubble, back when a house was expensive, but at least possible.

To put it in perspective, our house is now worth more than 3X the price we paid in 1997, but my salary is not even 2X what my salary was back then. My wife stays at home with the kids now too, so there would be no way we could swing buying a house here on just one measly salary.

I'm real glad we bought when we did. Dumb luck.
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Old 01-25-2008, 01:31 PM   #12
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With the way things are going right now, I bet it will be back to a more realistic price in another year or two.
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Old 01-25-2008, 01:47 PM   #13
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Who can afford a house? If things continue the way they say they will.....maybe.
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Old 01-25-2008, 08:13 PM   #14
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Our is very cheap for the area because it's a newer crappy cookie cutter job. It was 205 in 2001, revalued at 219 in 2002. Older, smaller houses in the old part of town sell for 2-3 times that amount. It's about 1800sf colonnial, no land. Probably is still about 219. Michigan is fucked at the moment, and houses in AA have plummeted because Pfizer left and paid for their employees to take up to a $100K loss when selling their houses.

Not that I'm pissed off about it or anything.....
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Old 01-25-2008, 08:27 PM   #15
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150K in the desert boonies, paid cash so I don't care about the housing bubble, since we'll be here at least until retirement (15-20 years)
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