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[Scout734]

My first house I bought for $39,500 and sold for $69,500. Worth $256k now

 

[Chris]

I need to find motivation to work on the place I'm in now

 

[Chris]

My first house I bought for $39,500 and sold for $69,500. Worth $256k now

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What part of the country

 

[Scout734]

This is the house my husband and I built from the ground up. I loved that place.

 

[Scout734]

This is the house I bought after my husband passed. I needed to be closer in to town. I didn't want to live by myself in such a rural area. Paid $225k and sold for $302k 6 years later. It's worth $500k now.
It's actually got it's own video when it resold a few years ago

 

[Scout734]

What part of the country

East side of Cincinnati, Ohio area

 

[Floorist]

Property values are a lot lower here and so are wages. You can still buy a fixer-upper for $50,000.

I must be a jinx. Of all the houses I have ever lived in, only one still exists. Both of my childhood homes are gone.

 

[Havasu]

We still drive by my grandparents house in Laguna Beach. Paid $16k in 1964, my dad inherited it in 1975, and sold it for $160k. Today, it is worth $2.5m. Funny thing, it only has 1 bedroom and 2 baths.

 

[Scout734]

We still drive by my grandparents house in Laguna Beach. Paid $16k in 1964, my dad inherited it in 1975, and sold it for $160k. Today, it is worth $2.5m. Funny thing, it only has 1 bedroom and 2 baths.

Amazing...
If we only knew then what we know now.

 

[Floorist]

Amazing...
If we only knew then what we know now.

When I was married the second time I bought 10 acres out in the country and there was a cave on it. Sold it when we divorced. Gave $5,000 for it. Now it would bring $80,000 to $100,000.

 

[Havasu]

Chris, don't you still have a chunk of land, in what I believe was Kingman, Az?

 

[Chris]

East side of Cincinnati, Ohio area

Those are some nice houses. The west coast has a lot less cool stuff.

 

[Chris]

Property values are a lot lower here and so are wages. You can still buy a fixer-upper for $50,000.

I must be a jinx. Of all the houses I have ever lived in, only one still exists. Both of my childhood homes are gone.

It's all relevant in most place, make less things are less, make more things are more. Only way to win that one is do like I did, live where it's expensive and move to where it's cheap.

 

[Chris]

Chris, don't you still have a chunk of land, in what I believe was Kingman, Az?

I have 5 acres outside Kingman and two one acre house lots outside Tucson

 

[Scout734]

I think Cincinnati area is pretty much in a median type market. The area in Arizona I'm in is probably on the upper side of the median. Where my son lives in DC the square footage cost is a little over twice what it is here. California is just nuts.

 

[Havasu]

Yep, we're nuts

 

[Chris]

Idaho joined the nuts a couple years ago. My house i bought for 420k in 2016, went to 1.6mil last year, and now sitting at 1.2. Its crazy.

 

[Scout734]

I think prices here are going up again. A 1750 sf house around the corner just sold for $530k