Where does $500K buy you a nice house right now...

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Central or north Florida

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Houston

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Minneapolis suburbs?

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Anonymous wrote:Minneapolis suburbs?

It depends on the suburb, places like Edina and Wayzata...no...but Woodbury, Eden Prairie, Rosemount, etc. Those are all very nice and safe suburbs with good schools but sort of soulless. Like a MN equivalent of Ashburn maybe.

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Anonymous wrote:Central or north Florida

but how are you going on insure that house?

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Omaha, NE. You can get quite a lot of house for $550K but the property tax rate is over 2%.

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Anonymous wrote:Chicago for sure. You can DEFINITELY get a 3 or 4 bedroom in a good school district in either the city or close in suburbs with Metra access for under $500k.

-Lifelong Chicagoan currently living in the suburbs. 5b/2a corner lot, fantastic school district, walkable to metra that has express trains in the morning taking 28 mins to downtown, great community. Paid $335k.

Which suburb?!

Our house is in Mount Prospect, but we are Arlington Heights school district. Here's some close by-

Park Ridge- one of the best school districts in the state, AMAZING downtown, metra and L connected, 10 min to Ohare, 25 min drive downtown Chicago w/o rush hour, amazing community amenities
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Park-Ridge/1141-N-K...-60068/home/13655798

Edison Park- this is in Chicago, best public school district in the city, great public trans connections, safest neighborhood in the city, good downtown area and parks, really involved community of families
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/7404-W-Ever...-60631/home/13565715

https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/7600-W-Ever...-60631/home/13567099

Norridge is a "city within the city". It's technically a suburb so it has the suburb amenities and school district, but is fully encompassed by Chicago all the way around.
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Norridge/4016-N-Oza...-60706/home/13552637

https://www.redfin.com/IL/Norridge/4137-N-Ott...-60706/home/13553415

If you are open to being up to an hour outside the city, still connected to the Metra, low taxes, cute downtown, tons of fun lakes and waterfront bars/restuarants in the area, you can get something like this

https://www.redfin.com/IL/Johnsburg/3318-Chri...-60051/home/22946505

Wouldn’t buy anything in IL these days.

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Anonymous wrote:Central or north Florida

but how are you going on insure that house?

I think you need to get out more....

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New Hampshire:

https://www.trulia.com/p/nh/dover/163-mount-v...nh-03820--2003416986

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I always end up in the Greenville, SC area

https://www.redfin.com/SC/Simpsonville/19-Wor...-29681/home/60594454

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chicago for sure. You can DEFINITELY get a 3 or 4 bedroom in a good school district in either the city or close in suburbs with Metra access for under $500k.

-Lifelong Chicagoan currently living in the suburbs. 5b/2a corner lot, fantastic school district, walkable to metra that has express trains in the morning taking 28 mins to downtown, great community. Paid $335k.

Which suburb?!

Our house is in Mount Prospect, but we are Arlington Heights school district. Here's some close by-

Park Ridge- one of the best school districts in the state, AMAZING downtown, metra and L connected, 10 min to Ohare, 25 min drive downtown Chicago w/o rush hour, amazing community amenities
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Park-Ridge/1141-N-K...-60068/home/13655798

Edison Park- this is in Chicago, best public school district in the city, great public trans connections, safest neighborhood in the city, good downtown area and parks, really involved community of families
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/7404-W-Ever...-60631/home/13565715

https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/7600-W-Ever...-60631/home/13567099

Norridge is a "city within the city". It's technically a suburb so it has the suburb amenities and school district, but is fully encompassed by Chicago all the way around.
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Norridge/4016-N-Oza...-60706/home/13552637

https://www.redfin.com/IL/Norridge/4137-N-Ott...-60706/home/13553415

If you are open to being up to an hour outside the city, still connected to the Metra, low taxes, cute downtown, tons of fun lakes and waterfront bars/restuarants in the area, you can get something like this

https://www.redfin.com/IL/Johnsburg/3318-Chri...-60051/home/22946505

Wouldn’t buy anything in IL these days.

I would.

[Anonymous]

A beautiful, historic home in Troy, NY.

https://redf.in/v835Jo

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Anonymous wrote:A beautiful, historic home in Troy, NY.

https://redf.in/v835Jo

Kitchen is the most historic part... amazing those cabinets haven't crumbled. Yuck.

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Anonymous wrote:OP you should be aware of that what passes for “good housing stock” in many areas pales in comparison to around here. Expect lots of tile floors, carpeting & dark granite countertops.

Pretty much. There is very little inventory completely updated, unless the house is new.

I actually would think the opposite since a lot of “good inventory” around here is based on schools and not the actual house itself

PP here. Look at the interiors of houses with nice exteriors in places like East Grand Rapids or Charleston & you’ll see what I mean.

Nicer (at least in terms of visuals) big new builders like Toll Brothers & Ryan Homes also only build in certain markets and not at in others. In many areas there are basically no new builds.

I guess that’s where we differ. I don’t view toll brothers or Ryan as upscale but more builder grade suburban homes.

East Grand Rapids is a dream aside from winter!