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@sallypup (58329)
Centralia, Washington
October 23, 2017 1:51pm CST
I continue to look at Oregon properties. What would it be like to live there and how about that one? Enough space inside and out?
I ran into a property today. Three hundred and fifty thousand dollars! Would someone plunk down all that cash for what? The house was a horror. Part of the building unfinished. Probably painted fifty years ago. I guess folks would pay all that huge amount of moolah cause that not liveable house comes with just over seven acres and its own pond.
I looked and looked at the place. Flat weedy meadows. Mountains near by. Bliss and yet whoa on that house. Not in my time frame. Not for me and mine. Love the meadows and hate the fallen down building that is kind of a house.
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@crossbones27 (48542)
• Mojave, California
23 Oct 17
It so ridiculous at housing prices today. One of my old Marine buddies showed a property with a house so run down. Had boarded up windows and could see nails literally popping out. Those fools wanted $575,000 for the property. That was in Washington state also. They wonder why so many are going homeless. DUH!
Hope you find something, but at this rate, might be better to buy land and then see if it is a better deal to build a house. That is what my other Marine friend did in Texas. I am not a fan of Texas, but have to admit they have much cheaper housing than most places and no state taxes.
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@sallypup (58329)
• Centralia, Washington
23 Oct 17
@crossbones27 Having a house built is not a cheap way to go, either. There are some cheaper places but not sure if they are on a bus line. (I'm thinking ahead to when I am older and won't want to drive so much.) The cheaper housing is generally in an economically depressed area. That makes me pause, too.
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@crossbones27 (48542)
• Mojave, California
23 Oct 17
@sallypup Very true, and smart for thinking ahead. Why many are starting to say the ghetto is the place to live. Ghetto fabulous indeed, anywhere else is just getting to expensive. Sad to say.
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@sallypup (58329)
• Centralia, Washington
23 Oct 17
@crossbones27 We have a place now and are not desperate but its not going to fit the bill when we get older. I just do not want our chunk of down payment going down a literal rat hole. There are many places in my present town that are ghetto houses. Makes me sad for the kids that have to live there.
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@sallypup (58329)
• Centralia, Washington
23 Oct 17
@Jackalyn I'm having to realize that I'm at the point of needing to change my perspective. I've generally bought the land and then the house. (House can be ugly but oooh all that land!) I'm getting older and need to start thinking about shelter more than the ability to dig and conquer acres. Dang that, anyway!
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@Tampa_girl7 (49267)
• United States
23 Oct 17
The acreage would be nice to have. 
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@sallypup (58329)
• Centralia, Washington
23 Oct 17
@Tampa_girl7 Exactly. The meadow called to me. Then I gawked at that horrid house.
@Hannihar (129674)
• Israel
24 Oct 17
There are people that do have that kind of money and they look at the house as an investment. They buy it and fix it up and resell it maybe for twice the amount to get a profit. I have a friend that lives in Jerusalem that is from Oregon. I have never been there.
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@RichardMeister (5328)
• Otis Orchards, Washington
23 Oct 17
I lived in Oregon back in the 70s. I found it to be a nice state to live in. But I don't think I'd pay that type of money for a rundown piece of property.
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@JudyEv (326601)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Oct 17
For us, we'd consider it (if we were younger) as we quite like doing our own renovating and fixing up. Hopefully you'll find something better soon,
