What does 100K buy in your town? (dial-up warning)

[LaraMN]

I am constantly amazed by the disparity in housing prices across the country. Post a few pics of what the almighty dollar will buy where you hail from.

My town: NE Minnesota, population 15,000.


$110,000 buys you something like this:


"Spacious 2 bedroom, Newer furnace, water heater, roof & siding. Newly remodeled bath w/whirlpool tub, deep back yard complete w/apple trees. New 2 car garage in 2000."




$240,000:

3 bedroom, 3,000-ish sq. ft. home on 1/3 acre.



$400,000:


Five bedroom, 4,000-ish square foot home on 15 acres.

[jukes]

1. in bartow county, GA

you can purchase any local government official for $100K, & get change back...

[BrklynLiberal]

3. ROTFLMAO!

[Doctor_J]

82. In my Chi burb, it gets you 1/3 of the way to an empty city lot

50' x 150'. I'll be moving soon.

[mainegreen]

2. $100,000 - .25 acre lot, house not included

$200,000 will get you a box:


1/4 million will get a condo:

[LaraMN]

6. Oh wow. I couldnt afford a mobile home there.

:scared:

[BrklynLiberal]

4. You cannot imagine how little $100,000 can buy here in NYC.

At this point, virtually nothing... :-( except perhaps one of those tax auction properties that you then have to invest lots of money into to make liveable.

[CanuckAmok]

32. my aunt paid $40,000 for property in Manhattan in 2003.

It was a secured underground parking space.

BTW, she doesn't even have a car.

[ThomCat]

36. You can't buy a parking space for $100k here in NYC

[warrens]

44. When I moved out of NYC in 93, a CAR CONDO was $130K

I'm not kidding, a parking space in midtown was $130,000, plus monthly upkeep charges.

I moved to Florida, where I got a five bedroom house with pool for $108K.

I now live in a two-bedroom apt. in downtown Chicago that costs a little over $900 a month.

[LSK]

5. a converted 1br, 1ba apartment

[anarch]

7. $100k? Maybe something like this:

Probably not, even.

For around $300k you can get the corner lot:

[LaraMN]

11. O.m.g.

Talk about curb appeal, eh?

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

118. I just KNEW you lived in DC

:toast: :D

My rent is more than my parents' mortgage, and yet I can't even buy a 1BR condo for what I pay. :evilfrown:

[billyskank]

8. Absolutely bugger all, my dear Lara:

$100K ~= 60K UKP, for which I could find this:



which is advertised as a "0-bedroom flat." :wtf:

[LaraMN]

9. Is that like a studio apartment?

Yikes.

[billyskank]

12. Something like that

but it doesn't look like the friendliest of areas, neither.

For reference, my 1-bedroom apartment cost me 50K, which was 4 years ago, and prices have been shooting up since then.

[tjwmason]

16. Same story here

Maybe a garden shed...

I found a 1 bedroom apartment in the village for £235,000. In the nearest town for £260,000 (admittedly a luxury apartment).

Good to see a sustainable housing policy in action. :eyes:

[Shine]

10. I can't post a pix, cuz it would be a pix of NOTHING.

I live in Santa Cruz County, in CA, which has the dubious distinction of being one of THE most expensive places to live in the country.

Seriously, you would be shocked to see what real estate prices are 'round these parts. We're talking 2 bedroom little beach bungalows, with less than 1500 sq ft, going for almost $700K!!

It's totally ridiculous.


Thank god we bought when we did, ten years ago, cuz there would be NO WAY we could do it now. :eyes:

[LaraMN]

14. Wow. I think the meian income in my county is i around 40-some-thousand

dollars/ yr. I wonder what it is where you're at? That is unbelievable.:wow:

[Shine]

28. Yeah, it's unbelievable, alright.

:eyes:

It IS a great place to live, though, I must say. We got it all, the beaches, the mountains, the redwoods, the liberal politics, the healthy living, lots of friends....

We're lucky we've been able to work it out. Not everybody has that luxury, so I don't take it for granted, believe me.

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. There's a report every year by a contractors association

that ranks U.S. cities according to median income vs. housing costs. It's been a few years since I've seen the report, but the last one I remember — 2002, I think — ranked Santa Cruz as the least-affordable city in the country.

[Shine]

24. Yup, testify, brother.

I came across this little article which has the median price of a home in Santa Cruz county at $599,000.
http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/12/real_estate/re2005_100markets_0506/index.htm

:wow:

I still think the SF Bay area might have it worse, though.....

[Oeditpus Rex]

26. We almost never make those lists

because we're out here in the burboonies, but the median home price here is about $635,000.

[Shine]

35. Well that's still pretty damn crazy, don't ya think?

Yeah, I bet that $599K figure that was in that article I posted earlier isn't even correct anymore....it's undoubtedly MORE than that, I just don't wanna do any more depressing research. :eyes:

[Oeditpus Rex]

42. It's absolutely insane

And I don't care how many realtors say "Location, location, location," it still doesn't make sense to me. You can't rationalize how virtually every square inch within 50 miles of the California coast is worth four times as much as almost anywhere in, say, Wisconsin, which is one of the most beautiful places in the country to live, IMO.

[fishwax]

127. i had considered going to UCSC for grad school

but I couldn't imagine how we would ever live there on a grad student's pay :(

[miss_american_pie]

13. Depends on the neighborhood

but cost of living is really low in Pittsburgh.

[Ravenseye]

23. see post 22

[petronius]

15. I'd get an ass-kicking from the angry realtor

who's time I wasted with my discussion about chump-change. Around here, you need to quadruple that figure just to get into the condo range...

:(

[LibDemAlways]

17. Another Californian checking in. There is nothing

in my area in the $100K range. The cheapest thing on the market in my community is a one-bedroom 780 sq. foot "condo" listed at $343K. My 27-year-old 3bdrm/2ba well worn old tract house would go for over $700K. I kid you not. And there's nothing being built with a pricetag of under a million. It's insane.

By the way that 4000 sq foot home, which in my area would be built on a much smaller lot, would go for over 2 million these days.

[Oeditpus Rex]

19. I did an MLS search

and the only thing you can get around here for $100,000 is an older mobile home, or a small newer one in a crappy park.

No surprise.

Unfortunately, pics are not grabbable. But do you really need 'em?

[DS1]

20. One of these. Roof extra

[Shine]

31. LOL! You must be in California.

:D

[rustydog]

21. My son and daughter-in law just sold their 560 sq. foot condo

in Seattle for 160,000 bucks.
A 3 bedroom fixer-upper in Snohomish area(30 miles north)goes from 260 to 300,000 plus.

[Ravenseye]

22. Pittsburgh

$100,000
3 Bedrooms, 2 Full Baths, 2 Fireplaces, Deck, Fairly convienient location in the city, with decent public school.


$240,000
4 Bedrooms, 2 Full Baths, 1 Half Bath, Finished basement, game room, big back yard, etc.


$400,000
5 Bedrooms, 3 Full Baths, 1 Half Bath, on hill with view, basement apartment, game room, 3 fireplaces, best school district in town.



and just for fun...
$1,000,000
5 Bedrooms, 4 Full Baths, finished basement, gorgeous, smack in the middle of the nicest city neighborhood.

[miss_american_pie]

27. Nice

:thumbsup:

[Ravenseye]

33. Isn't it?

And it's a great place to live to boot.

[miss_american_pie]

37. Yep

We're in the middle of househunting and I've sworn off realtor sites for the rest of the week. :hi:

[Ravenseye]

55. Ugh I know that feeling

That's how we were last year at this time. It's funny because we were looking to spend more than we actually did. We started out and looked online and we were looking at houses in the 150k range and I didn't like any of them, on the inside. We then described to a buyer's agent what we were looking for and realized that we could spend far less. We ended up getting 3 bed/3 bath in the city for 80k. Nice neighborhood, very convienient...backs onto a wooded area. Perfect.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

93. I saw the third house on House Hunters!

A huge family of like 10 bought it!
Duckie

[RPM]

98. where is that bottom one?

I am guessing either Westminster Pl in shadyside or Aylesboro in Squirrel Hill...

Close?

[Ravenseye]

112. Shadyside

You nailed it.

[RPM]

115. did i nail the street or the hood?

I am particular about the houses in that area - they are / can be things of beauty.

If i was off on the street, let me know which one it is. (please)

[Ravenseye]

121. You're off by a couple of blocks

http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=4861+Ellsworth,+Pittsburgh,+PA

[RPM]

125. crap - that was my third guess

that one is on the market right now, no? - guess thats where you got the pic...

[Ravenseye]

141. Yup

I got all those pics from current listings on Howard Hanna

[ET Awful]

25. For $100k? In Massachusetts? A trailer.

No lot to put it on, just a trailer. Probably a rusty trailer, tires will require replacing before you can move it to a more permanent site.

[nutsnberries]

50. that's the truth! -nt

[texas1928]

59. Well 100k can get you alot of

TAG!!!!!!!!!!!!'s YOU'RE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'s

[Lavender Brown]

29. swampland

Well, not exactly, but this is all that came up for that price:

http://www.coldwellbanker.com/servlet/PropertyListing?action=detail&ComColdwellbankerDataProperty_id=8547338&page=property

[XemaSab]

30. $110,000 gets you 40 acres in lovely rural Ono

For around $100,000 you can also get a trailer in a trailer park in town.

For $240 you can get a nice smaller home in Redding. There are a lot of modest one-story houses built in the late 40's and early 50's after the dam was built. This house shown has 3 bedrooms and 1 bath, and is around 1,300 square feet. You can get houses like this for around $180, but the one shown is probably a little nicer.



For $400,000 you get a newer, larger house. This one's 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and 2,000 square feet. This one also has a modern-sized garage too, unlike a lot of the older houses. The house shown is advertized as having a mountain view, which could include Shasta Bally, Mount Shasta, or Mount Lassen. Some of the houses around here have AMAZING views, but I'm happy with a smaller home in a real neighborhood.

[XemaSab]

130. Oh, and to be fair:

the 40 acres in Ono, while it's only 14 miles outside Redding, probably has no water, electricity, phone, or sewage, so you'd be roughing it.

[northzax]

34. well, given that a recent sale

of a partial lot (in the interior of a constructed building that was 20X15 feet) was for over $100,000, I'd say jack and squat, and Jack just moved to West Virginia. If you're really, really lucky, 100 grand might buy you a burned out tear-me-down two bedroom townhouse on a drug and crime infested block. maybe. course, that needs about $250,000 worth of work simply to make it habitable.

[LynneSin]

38. 100k in Wilmington could get you a nice highrise like this...

[nutsnberries]

52. great picture!

:rofl:

[mdmc]

57. wow

:kick:

[WeRQ4U]

76. self delete

Wrong spot.

[CanuckAmok]

39. Look what came up when I did an MLS search ov Victoria up to $100,000:

"No properties match your search. Please broaden your search by changing your search below."

[momophile]

40. not JonBenet's home, however...

edit: Boulder, Colorado - to clarify

here is a 1 bed/1 bath condo nowhere near the University of Colorado for $100,000:


the first single-family house I found was for $259,000 and nowhere near downtown.


But if you want, the Ramsey house is for sale, listed at $1,695,000:

[BreweryYardRat]

41. I'm in St. Petersburg, FL

This is about as good as it gets in the 100k price range:

[DBoon]

43. In Los Angeles, you can get one of these for $100,000

Bet my dogs could pay for their vet bills by sub-leasing theirs

[electricmonk]

45. I'm sort of looking for a house.

76,000 will get this in my neighborhood


100,000 gets this in an ok neighborhhod in town.


200,000 will get this out in the county with 3.1 acres.


In a nice neighborhood in town 213,000 will get this.


400,000 gets this in the suburbs.


As a side note the first one is still too expensive for me.

[MadHound]

46. In Mid Missouri, my place, consisting of a 2700 sq foot house

With two car garage, three outbuildings and twenty acres of land, part forest, part farmland, ran my wife and I $140,000 two years ago. A similar place in back of us has been on the market for the past six months. However they're wanting $287.000, and everybody in the area is staying away in droves. Granted, urban prices are a bit heftier, especially if you are in line to have urban development come out your way in five years or so, but still, we haven't really experienced the sort of housing bubble that many other areas of the country have faced.

[xmas74]

71. I found only one in Wsbg

for around 100,000. It's manufactored housing but I have noticed a few advertised in town at around 90,000-2 bdrooms, no yard and right next to CMSU.

And you know that Warrensburg is in the line for further development. It's only going to get worse in time.

[AngryAmish]

47. By me

http://www.realtor.com/FindHome/HomeListing.asp?snum=1131&locallnk=yes&frm=byzip&mnbed=0&mnbath=0&mnprice=0&mxprice=99999999&js=off&fid=so&stype=&mnsqft=&mls=xmls&areaid=60618&poe=realtor&zp=60618&sbint=&vtsort=&sorttype=&typ=1&typ=2&typ=4&x=34&y=10&sid=065E1B5D245AC&pgnum=114&snumxlid=1052875368&lnksrc=00002

[kwassa]

48. There are no listings that meet your requirements.

Montgomery Country, Maryland

$100,000

There are no listings that meet your requirements. Please modify your request on the Search Form or Contact Us.

$200,000

1 bedroom, 1 bath condos upcounty. 33 listings.

[u4ic]

49. This is the last building I lived in!

$99,900 - 2 bedroom, 1 bath



You'll feel safe in this area...the sports bar across the street ALWAYS has the cops there.

It's a vibrant area and exciting area...you, too, may witness your very first car jacking!

Wildlife abounds...especially after the football games at Commonwealth Stadium, right across the street!

An added bonus...the neighbourhood comes with its very own SERIAL KILLER! :bounce:

[Oeditpus Rex]

66. You no longer live in a building?

Is your tepee at least insulated? :shrug:

[u4ic]

67. Igloo, man!

Geesh. :eyes:

[hunter]

51. Nothing

If you know the wrong sorts of people $500,000 might get you a "handyman's special" in which the previous occupants were shot to death in a drug deal that went bad. You could clean up the mess up and then rent it out to a very large extended family, maybe a dozen people, and they could put four beds in the garage and rent those beds out to other people.

Lots of families here live week-to-week in poorly maintained fifty year old motels. Lot's of people live in broken down cars and in the bushes too.

One previous occupant of the first house we rented in this city was taken away to jail for dismantling stolen cars in the backyard. Apparently he dumped a lot of oil, gasoline, transmission fluid, etc., on the ground, because it took us about two years before we could get anything to grow. When we first looked at the place I pointed out two poorly patched bullet holes in the front of the house to the landlord, but he insisted they weren't bullet holes without actually explaining what they were and I had to take him at his word because it was one of the few places we could actually afford that wasn't totally scary.

[crispini]

105. Damn, where do you live?

[hunter]

110. And the national winner is...

"The least affordable small metro area ranked by the HOI, where only 4.3 percent of homes sold in the first quarter were affordable to median income earners making $60,300 annually."

Most people make less than $60,000, but a few make much more than that.

It didn't used to be this crazy in California, but housing prices are like this all along the coast. If our family had simply stayed where they were and held onto all the real estate they've owned in California over the last hundred years or so, we'd be billionaires. Alas, they kept selling it and investing in schemes that weren't always successful.

My wife and I stopped by my great grandparents' house in San Francisco. It was sold long ago, and now it's been subdivided into a few apartments. One of the guys who lived there kept saying, "They lived in the whole house?"

Yep, they did, and they didn't consider themselves wealthy.

I wonder if my great grandkids will think the same about the house we live in. It will probably have a pretty good ocean view in a hundred years as the seas rise.

[u4ic]

53. Just checked out Ft McMurray, AB

I lived there 10 years ago. Back then, this house would have been about $85k. Now, it's going for $608,900. Yep, all 1057 sq ft of it...



I guess the deck makes up for it. :eyes:

[no name no slogan]

65. Sounds like how Minneapolis was ten years ago

I bought my first "starter" house (1 1/2 story, 3BR, 1.5BA 1940s-era bungalow) about a mile west of DT on a "standard" city lot. It was a fixer-upper, and we paid $94k for it in March 1997.

We sold it off after the divorce last November for $245k. We probably could have got another $125k for it, but it was in major disrepair when we sold it (one bathroom and most of the basement gutted for repairs and the upper level also in disrepair for remodelling).

Housing costs are absolutely ridiculous. I wonder how first-time homebuyers can even afford to buy anything these days.

[u4ic]

68. Ft McMurray - oilsands

'nuff said. ;)

[deadparrot]

54. In my college town:

Both are a bit short of 100K (the first is $99,950; the second $95,000).

In my hometown:


Condos are about it.

[mdmc]

56. Couldn't find anything under $100,000 in Newburgh, NY

I did find this shanty for $175,000. Here is the entire listing http://newyork.foxtons.com/search?md5=a6a8a2116019c771c54c57b9e3a50ee2&search_form=keyword&search_type=SS&inst_ref=96588&submit_type=search

[Ron Mexico]

58. A cardboard box (DC Metro area, NT)

[underpants]

60. I don't think there is anything in the "dollar" bin around here

Nothing that I would seriously consider. I have to say I am amazed at some of the prices. I rented for years and we still rent (pregenancy doesn't make for lots of weekends driving around). Our house is probably $280K and it ain't no $280Khouse neighborhood and all be damned.

Anyway here is something no one wants to mention. A huge elephant in the room the biggest really.

Okay here goes. All this BOOM in housing and house prices is the result of the technology boom of the 90's being over and something having to fill the void. So the Feds (W) cuts most funding to the localities so the only recourse they have is to bump up assessed value. See they need money for the cops and the firefighters and the roads and schools NOW!

Property values are inflated by the government not the market.

[maveric]

61. A 2 bdrm trailer in a seedy East County park.

An average 3 bdrm home in San Diego is going for $600,000.00.
I've seen ads for mobile homes in the low 100,000's.

[Samurai_Writer]

62. Boulder, Colorado homes

For $91,500 you can buy a one bedroom condo like this:







For $239,000 you can buy a two bedroom condo or townhouse like this:



For $440,000, you can buy a 955 sq ft 2bdrm, 1bth 1906 cottage like this:



For $629,000, you can buy a 2146 sq ft 3bdrm, 3 bath home like this:



For $950,000, you can buy a 3122 sq ft 3bdrm, 2 bath home on three lots with a mother-in-law rental like this:




And people wonder why I rent. Outside of Boulder.

[momophile]

72. don't forget the ramsey house! see above

:hi:

[ForrestGump]

63. A full week here

Or so I've heard. :D

Viva Las Vegas, baby...

[no name no slogan]

64. In St Paul, MN

Unless you want a very small condo or a "handyman special" (i.e., a house that's falling apart), there's not much available.

[Left Is Write]

83. Is there ANYTHING $100K in the Twin Cities?

The starter house we bought in '98 is worth now about twice what we paid for it. That's in Inver Grove.

[no name no slogan]

89. That sounds about right

my boss is moving from S. Minneapolis to Inver Grove. You have to spend at least $200k to get anything decent. He's looking to spend around $250k himself.

[Xithras]

69. Modesto, Ca. A mobile home or a dirt lot.

My actual home town has zilch. A mile down the road in Modesto, you can find a large number of mobile homes in the sub 100k range, but nothing on its own land (meaning you'll still be paying rent). If you want a piece of property to drop it on, I did find a .08 acre lot in one of the worst parts of town for $90k, and a .13 acre lot on a busy highway for $30k...but it's only 15 feet deep and on the wrong side of the levee in a flood zone.

Your $110,000 house would go for about $350,000 here.

[Momgonepostal]

123. None available now, but sometimes you can get a...

Studio condo in No. Modesto for around $100K. Of course, they are less than 500 sf and the HOA dues are over $200/month.

Many of those mobile homes on the market are in senior parks, which is fine if you're a senior, but not helpful for a young person trying to get into his/her home.

I like these threads, because they make me feel like less of a loser for not having a bigger house. I see there's nothing wrong with me, I just live in the wrong state. :-)

Hi, Xithras! :hi:

[xmas74]

70. 114,000 gets a manufactored home

w/ 3 acres.

The land sounds nice but this is tornado alley.

Otherwise, my hunt started at 150,000 for the lowest prices online but I know of a fixer-upper (lots of work) in town that is going for 45,000 for four bedrooms.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

73. In Los Angeles:

[ChoralScholar]

88. Does the acetylene torch come with it?

Bonus.

[ScreamingMeemie]

74. $102,000 will get you what this appraiser says isn't worth it...

;)

[Lars39]

75. My MIL was talking about a cousin that bought a house recently

for $15,000. And the original asking price was $26,000. It was a tiny house, probably under a 1000 sqf, but in good shape supposedly.
Downside is that it is in the boonies. Just couldn't believe my ears, though.

[Nikia]

80. My uncle bought a house that cheap 10 years ago

He had to pump a lot of water out of the basement and pretty much redo everything for it to be liveable. The original sellers were suprised that he actually fixed it up rather than tearing it down and building a house of his own. It is in a small Ohio village away from the big towns.

[WeRQ4U]

77. In SW North Dakota....

Quite a bit actually.

Although the housing prices are rising a bit, I purchased my home, a 2500sqft brick bungalow on a corner lot, for less than that a couple years ago.

Location....Location....Location.

[Wcross]

78. I paid 54k two years ago for 15 acres and a 680sqft house.

I figured I could live in the house debt free and work on building the house I wanted when money and time permits.

[Nikia]

79. Similiar to your case

I am paranoid so I'd rather not post pics from my town. There seem to lots of variables to home price, but there would be homes like that at your prices.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

81. I live rural so prices are still not bad

$95,000 will buy you a 2/2 cabin in a not so great neighborhood.



$209,000 gets you this 3/2/2 that they've stripped all the trees off the lot to build. Not my style but to each their own.



For $295k this one with a wildflower garden in the front... (I think it's really weeds, I have a WF garden and they don't look like that)



$495k for this 4/3/2


And if you want privacy you can get this one on 14 acres on a hill top with very lovely views for 1.2 mil

[GOPisEvil]

84. $100,000 will buy you my house!

2BR, 2 full bath, 1 car garage, new fence, nice flower garden (freshly weeded).

The place is worth $105k, but I'll sell it to you for $100k.

[Whoa_Nelly]

85. DISPARITY! $98k in Central CA--scary...you've been warned

3 Bed, 1 Bath
924 Sq. Ft
AND a 2-car garage!
0.2 Acres



and for $737k you get:

4 Bed, 2.5 Bath
3,200 Sq. Ft.
Sprinkler system--NO pool




One of the reasons am moving back to Oklahoma:

$114,900
3 Bed, 2 Bath
1,945 Sq. Ft.
0.16 Acres

[hunter]

94. That first house isn't too scary if your neighbors don't like guns.

No bars on the windows, no gang grafitti...

There's probably some fat drunk white guy in the neighborhood who likes to shoot your cats when he's not on the internet looking at pictures of little girls.

[YankeyMCC]

86. Search Results for Arlington, MA

"Your search didn't return any result"

And I even cheated a bit and set my limit to $110K :)

[ChoralScholar]

87. In Harrison, AR

35,000

2br/1ba, 20 yrs old. Central heat/air.

74,900

2br/1ba, 50-60 yrs old, on banks of Crooked Creek.

96,000

3br/1ba, split level brand new

189,000

4br/2ba on 4 acres, 3yrs old.

half a million will get you this:

5br/4ba on 1 acre, 4500 sq. ft. 5 yrs old.


But what I've got my eye on is THIS house for $129,000

[fleabert]

90. I did a MLS search for San Francisco area....

these are the cities searched:
Alamo Square,Anza Vista,Balboa Terrace,Bayview,Bayview Heights,Bernal Heights,Buena Vista Park,Central Richmond,Central Sunset,Central Waterfront,Clarendon Heights,Corona Heights,Cow Hollow,Crocker Amazon,Diamond Heights,Downtown,Duboce Triangle,Eureka Valley/Dolores Heights,Excelsior,Financial District,Forest Hill,Forest Hill Extension,Glen Park,Golden Gate Heights,Haight Ashbury,Hayes Valley,Hunters Point,Ingleside,Ingleside Heights,Ingleside Terrace,Inner Mission,Inner Parkside,Inner Richmond,Inner Sunset,Jordan Lake/Laurel Heights,Lake,Lake Shore,Lakeside,Lone Mountain,Lower Pacific Heights,Marina,Merced Heights,Merced Manor,Midtown Terrace,Miraloma Park,Mission Bay,Mission Dolores,Mission Terrace,Monterey Heights,Mount Davidson Manor,Nob Hill,Noe Valley,North Beach,North Panhandle,North Waterfront,Oceanview,Outer Mission,Outer Parkside,Outer Richmond,Outer Sunset,Pacific Heights,Parkside,Parnassus/Ashbury Heights,Pine Lake Park,Portola,Potrero Hill,Presidio Heights,Russian Hill,Sea Cliff,Sherwood Forest,Silver Terrace,South Beach,South of Market,St. Francis Wood,Stonestown,Sunnyside,Telegraph Hill,Tenderloin,Twin Peaks,Van Ness/Civic Center,Visitacion Valley,West Portal,Western Addition,Westwood Highlands,Westwood Park, CA has 2 homes for sale as of Mon at 4:59 PM PST.

these are the results:

City, state, sq. footage, lot size, price

Potrero Hill, CA
2/1 846 N/A $100,000


Lower Pacific Heights, CA
0/1 385 N/A $60,000

http://www.ziprealty.com/buy_a_home/search/results/sample.jsp?msg=&page=1&cKey=7620f6xz

[Dukkha]

124. I was just in SF last week

I was looking though the realty section and noticed a STUDIO (ONE ROOM) condo for sale in downtown SF around SOMA area for $209,000!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

91. Oklahoma City...

This home is $99,900. The neighborhood is good too...

This one is $106,500.
And for the brick likin' crowd:

$109,900
Duckie

[Whoa_Nelly]

103. What area of town are the first two in?

Just wonderin' what the major cross streets are....love that second one! The veranda porch looks like a great place to pass a summer evening or two :)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

106. You know, I'm not sure....it looks like Mesta Park.

:shrug:

[yellowdogintexas]

92. in North Texas, for around 100K you can find:

all three are 3/2/2 and look to be about 1960's vintage. and on a decent sized lot, with trees

[Laelth]

95. In purple Bibb County, Georgia

$63,500 gets you this ...

2 bedrooms, 1 baths, city lot

$94,900 gets you this ...

3 bedrooms, 2 baths, a ways out of town

$129,900 gets you this ...

3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, suburban but close in to town

$425,000 gets you this ...

5 bedrooms, 4 baths, city lot

$749,000 gets you this ...

5 bedrooms, 6.5 baths, 2 acre lot

$1,250,000 gets you this ...

5 bedrooms, 6 baths, quadruple-sized city lot in one of the nicest inner-city neighborhoods

Of course, if you buy any of these you also get the highest number of churches per capita of any city in the nation except for Las Vegas (or, at least it feels like it).

-Laelth

[Laelth]

96. Oh, and don't forget this one ...

$850,000 ... a fixer-upper

5 bedrooms, 5 baths, and very old ... in-town on the most prestigious residential street.

-Laelth

[Catchawave]

97. Your 400k on 15 acres would be a million

in Va Beach Va.

[NJ Democrats]

99. 100K will get you:

2.85 acres of Land

300K
A 3 bedroom 2 bathroom ranch home

425k
4 bedroom 3 bathroom ranch house

[Dinger]

100. Water Frontage In N. Wisconsin- I've Seen 410K (No House) For A LOT

a stinking lot! The days of the little cottage upnorth, for 30-60K are LONG over. It's still a dream of mine to own lake frontage in Northern wisconsin though, or instead, I could get a lot more land (off water) for the same price. 400K would get me 100 acres +.

[mduffy31]

129. Lake Nebagoman

Just outside Superior, there are houses that would go for 750 if they were up for sale.

[DemoTex]

101. I just sold my mountain house on 4+ acres in western NC.

$400,000+.

[cmf]

102. A boat slip.

Or possibly a single-wide. I live in a 25 year old condo, and the going rate for one like it is way more than $100K. Fortunately for us, we bought it a while ago when they were still cheap.

[AlCzervik]

104. i just my zip code and 5 surrounding areas--survey says--nothing.

[FunkyLeprechaun]

107. For Comparison, SE Minny

Where I'm from:



120,000 for this: Appealing two story duplex. Beautiful hardwood floors, new furnace '03 & central air '04, tuck under garage & more. Potential of converting back to single-family-a sound investment at a great price!



230,000 Four plex. Newer roof, steel siding, brick accents, four car garage, separate electric, coin-op laundry, Shared driveway, on busline and more. (I'm guessing you can become a landlord!)



I think this was Dr. Charles William Mayo's home (Dr. Chuck), you can get this for 750,000. I think it's a great price for a piece of Mayo History. If I had the money, I'd snap it up in a minute.

[yvr girl]

108. Nadda

Average house price in Vancouver is $750,000. Average condo price is about $340,000.

About 3 years ago I saw a pre-construction price for a "1 bedroom" apartment that was $165,000. It was 465 sq ft! Prices have also gone up A LOT in the last 3 years.

[Laelth]

109. I was saddened to discover that Vancouver was so expensive.

I've been looking into Canadian property since 2000 when the fascists took over here, and since BC is lovely and comparably temperate, it was my first choice until I found out how utterly impossible it would be for me to buy a house there. On the other hand, I could get a pretty nice place in Windsor, Ontario, for about the cost of my current house. If the Dems. don't take control of at least one house of Congress in November, I'm going to have to get serious about my search.

Location, location, location. :(

-Laelth

[hfojvt]

111. I did not even look at houses that cost more than 50K

The realtor thought I could afford a 75K house on 23K income but I thought he was nuts. I would have been SOL when I got fired if I had listened to him. There were houses in this town for 13K but I did not want to buy any that I saw. Many of those were occupied by renters anyway and so it would be impossible to buy and then move in.
I am not sure why I should care what $400,000 will buy.

[rbnyc]

113. What $100,000 will buy you in NYC:

[hfojvt]

135. I will probably never tire of this quote

True, $90,000 may not be all that much, especially in some areas. But since you mentioned NYC, perhaps you are aware that:
"Community Service Society, a nonprofit social service agency, said that "one-in-five New York workers earns less than $8.10 an hour. Three-quarters of those earning less than $8.10 an hour are living in poverty." According to a comprehensive CSS study, 52.6 percent of low-wage workers are women; six out of ten have a high school diploma; and more than one in ten is a college graduate. Eight in ten are people of color.

More than 600,000 New Yorkers earn between $5.15 an hour and $10 an hour. Some 56 percent of these low-wage workers have no health insurance for their families, 52 percent have no pension or 401(k) plan and 37 percent receive no paid leave.

About 800,000 city residents are eligible for food stamps, but do not receive them. During Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's second term, barriers to access were intentionally created, causing a 42 percent drop in recipients."

However hard it may be to live, much less live the good life on $100,000 a year in NYC. I can assure you that many NYC residents are living on much less

[Crazy Dave]

114. In Jacksonville, FL

The double-wide dealers will sell someone with poor or no credit a three bedroom double-wide for $60,000 without land and $400 a month for 25 years.

[NMMNG]

116. 100K won't buy a condo around here

Used condos are in the 200K range. You could probably get a trailer (which the local trailer park advertises as a "single family home") for around 100K or slightly less. That's it though.

[trof]

117. Foley, AL 2 br/1bth central heat & air 1000 sq. ft.

City sewer & water.
On a 1/4 acre lot.
$100,000

[Iniquitous Bunny]

119. A 1 bedroom 1 bath condo.

720 square feet in a less than ideal neighborhood.


200K
4 bedroom, 1 bath in an ok neighborhood.


300K
4 bedroom, 3 bath in a nice part of town.


Not too bad considering what's going on elsewhere and where I'm at in the country. I'll be looking to buy in another year and a half. I'm hoping for a bigger bubble burst before I do.

[izzybeans]

120. In my new town in Indiana I bought a home built in 1870

that has been about 3/4 remodeled with exposed brick walls new appliances and refurbished orignal wood plank flooring for just over 100,000. Three bedrooms 2100 s.f., 2 full baths, Library with fireplace (needing to be redesigned) and cieling to floor bookcases (10 ft. ceilings) 3/4 of an acre. No driveway. It still needs quite a bit of work. The two bedrooms upstairs are oldschool, connected (no hallway). We will eventually change that... before we sell it.


I moved here from NJ where I sold a shitty townhome that for $240,000. that had a planter in my window for a yard, 2 bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths 1400 s.f.

I think I've now got the better deal. Though I liked my town and neighbors in NJ much better.

[azmouse]

122. A recent appraisal on my home came in at almost $600,000.

It has about 2800 sqft, 4 bedrooms, 3 full baths, 3 car oversized garage, one acre of land with a new 900 sqft barn being used as a workshop.
Home values in the Phoenix area have gone crazy. We paid only $149,000 for the house in '91!

[grace0418]

126. In Chicago? Nothing. Well, maybe a real nice car.

But it won't buy you a house.

[mduffy31]

128. Where is NE Minnesota are you

I am in Duluth and my little shit house is at least 150K. My landlord asked if I wanted to buy it from him. I would but not at that price.

[Kerrytravelers]

131. In Pasadena, CA

$100,00... you guesed it... No properties matching your search are available at this time.

$500,000 Building Sq. Ft.:1,343 Bedrooms: 3 BathroomsFull: 1.25 Year Built: 1901
The nieghborhood is ok, but nothing special.


$499,000 Square Footage:864 :rofl: My apartment is bigger! But, at least I'd OWN somthing besides my car. Bedrooms: 2 BathroomsFull: 1 Year Built:1921

[HEyHEY]

132. A down payment on a condo in Vancouver

[ClayZ]

133. 40 miles out of Seattle, you could build a

Yurt!

[XemaSab]

134. What town is that?

[ClayZ]

136. Maybe in Marblemount!

I like it up there, off of the North Cascades Highway!
http://www.cascadeloop.com/north_cascades_highway.html



I am 25 miles north of Seattle and you can't touch house for under $200.000.

[XemaSab]

137. Down the road from Concrete.

:D

[ClayZ]

138. Yep, Concrete and Davenport.

Close enough for a day trip to Bellingham. Have you been up in this neck of the woods? We are in Mukilteo, it means Happy Campground!

[XemaSab]

139. My mom lived in Sultan for a while

and I've been on a few trips to the Okanagan via the aforementioned Marblemount and Concrete.

And, of course, Skagit rocks.

[DainBramaged]

140. $290,000, $600,000, $2,000,000+, Morris County NJ

I just checked, the prices above are comparisons to your prices. Lowest priced I found 3 bedrooms 1 bath in my town is $349,000. Tiny lot. $1.1 million 5 bedrooms 3 baths 1/2 acre most expensive right now.