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Anonymous
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You have a modest budget. And by modest I do not mean $600K, I mean an amount that is actually....modest.
There are a lot of good deals but there are also a lot of "as is" and I am worried about the FHA inspection so I don't know if we will be able to find anything. Oh well....we will keep plowing on. |
Anonymous
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We are looking for a house now too! We live in my 1BD 1 BR condo and we arent going to try for kids until we move to a house. So we are in the process.
It does suck! I feel what you are going through. We wanted to stay in the 500's but now as you said we are going to the 600's which yeah its not modest per se but its not a huge amount either and its hard. Just keep your eye out. We plan on waiting it out until something great comes along. We are just going to open houses right now to get an idea of whats out there. |
Anonymous
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We just went through this a year ago. We started looking at things in the 600K range, thinking that it was "modest" and that we must be able to afford "modest." And then we realized that modest is very relative. It was a HUGE disappointment when we went from looking at 600K places to 400K places.
In the end though, we found a great place that suits our family in a great school district less than a mile from the metro (Rockville.) It is a TH and I would have preferred a SFH. The quality of the craftmanship leaves a LOT to be desired and I could really use a garage. But honestly, we love what we have and are so happy with our decision not to put our financial future in jeopardy by buying more than we could afford. Hang in there! |
Anonymous
Remember, babies are small. They don't require a whole house to themselves. |
Anonymous
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Agreed.
We are looking for actual yard space (not .10 acre) and 3/4 bedrooms <$500. Just near impossible to stay in the area we rent in (N Arlington). Sucks that I have to uproot my daycare, commute, etc. to find something I can afford (and want). |
Anonymous
| Yep, I'm in the same boat. Trying to find something under $550K in an area where decent places under $550K really don't exist. I'm choosing between the houses on the busy streets, the houses that are frankly too small for us already, the houses with 1 bath, and the houses that haven't been updated since 1980. (that i won't have money to update maybe ever, since i'm buying at the top of my range.) Times like this I would *kill* to be married because it would solve all my problems to have another income and be in a slightly higher range. Hang in there. |
Anonymous
| Good luck! It sucks even more when you are selling and buying at the same time, and are waiting for your current house to go under contract until anyone will even consider an offer without a contingency on a home sale. It also sucks even more when you are losing money on your current property (as in actually paying out $$$ to sell) but are left with no other option because you can't even rent it for the amount of your mortgage. Sorry, just had to vent -- we just went through us, and are luckily all settled and happy in our new home and free of the previous home. |
Anonymous
No snark necessary pp. We want a home for a family. Really should not require you to post anything since you have nothing to do with our decision. But thanks. |
Anonymous
We had to do this too. There is literally nothing decent under $600k in North Arlington unless you want a 2br/1ba house. It's ridiculous. We started looking further out, and ended up in Fairfax. Longer commute, for sure, but we love having a yard, a driveway, 4 bedrooms, more than 1 bathroom, etc. |
Anonymous
We got this comment a lot too when we were buying, as I'm currently pregnant with our first. It drove me nuts. No one else but YOU knows the space you need for you and your family. |
Anonymous
Thanks pp! Goodluck on your pregnancy! |
Anonymous
It didn't read as snark to me. Also, remember that this is a discussion board, so people will respond as they like. No need to be rude to people who are trying to be helpful (I read the pp's response as trying to be helpful). |
Anonymous
| we're married, our range is below $450K and we are getting nervous about sale prices in our area because we are pretty much counting on some cash from selling our TH to put down on a very modest SFH. We don't really have a lot put aside otherwise. If we can't sell for a decent price, we're stuck in a 2 BR TH. Thank goodness we currently only have one child, but we've been trying for #2 and really would like a yard. I don't know where prices are rising, because the ones even in our well to do part of western fairfax seem to keep dropping. I so wish we had sold even a year ago - our neighbors got a decent price, now we're looking at maybe $60K less than what they got for some inexplicable reason. |
Anonymous
| Boo hoo. |
Anonymous
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"If we can't sell for a decent price, we're stuck in a 2 BR TH. "
The.end.of.the.world. |