Anonymous
Post 04/22/2015 14:15     Subject: Minnesota is cold but you can get a 4 car garage new build w/ good schools for 580k!
Anonymous wrote:If you think that's good but you don't like the weather - check out Dallas. We moved to Dallas 18 months ago and haven't looked back once. Awesome quality of life, and the summer heat isn't nearly as bad as I expected. It's beautiful and green here, great roads, great economy & jobs.


Sounds great except for the fact that you live in TX.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2015 14:12     Subject: Minnesota is cold but you can get a 4 car garage new build w/ good schools for 580k!
Right, but then when you lose your job and have to sell your house, or if you decide to move elsewhere, there's nobody to buy it because $580K is a lot of money almost anywhere but here. In other places, houses often sit on the market for many months, especially if they're considered to be at the top of the market.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2015 14:08     Subject: Minnesota is cold but you can get a 4 car garage new build w/ good schools for 580k!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You can get the same in Austin and not deal with the winters.

+1



basements?
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2015 13:59     Subject: Minnesota is cold but you can get a 4 car garage new build w/ good schools for 580k!
I wouldn't mind a 4 car garage. My parents have a 3 car garage and it's great. Space for 2 cars and space for all the gardening stuff.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2015 13:55     Subject: Minnesota is cold but you can get a 4 car garage new build w/ good schools for 580k!
Anonymous wrote:You can get the same in Austin and not deal with the winters.

+1

Anonymous
Post 04/22/2015 13:52     Subject: Minnesota is cold but you can get a 4 car garage new build w/ good schools for 580k!
You can get the same in Austin and not deal with the winters.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2015 13:51     Subject: Re:Minnesota is cold but you can get a 4 car garage new build w/ good schools for 580k!
That community is about 25 miles from downtown Minneapolis, so I guess the DC equivalent would be something like Sterling/Potomac Falls. You'd still pay more than $580K for a new house that big, perhaps $1.2 or 1.3 million. But you also get a shorter commute and colder weather in MN.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2015 13:50     Subject: Re:Minnesota is cold but you can get a 4 car garage new build w/ good schools for 580k!
Anonymous wrote:I can imagine the smell that lulls you to sleep inside in this behemoth.... a couple hundred yards of treated cabinets and carpets. YUK.

I mean, it's just not for me.


behemoth? I live in a slightly larger new home in McLean (5600SF) but they only offered 2 car garages and costs way more.

I would love a 3 or 4 car garage.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2015 13:49     Subject: Re:Minnesota is cold but you can get a 4 car garage new build w/ good schools for 580k!
Anonymous wrote:I can imagine the smell that lulls you to sleep inside in this behemoth.... a couple hundred yards of treated cabinets and carpets. YUK.

I mean, it's just not for me.


So you wouldn't live in a newly renovated home or do any repairs or renovations?

Do you prefer the musty old smell of water damaged homes?
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2015 13:40     Subject: Re:Minnesota is cold but you can get a 4 car garage new build w/ good schools for 580k!
I can imagine the smell that lulls you to sleep inside in this behemoth.... a couple hundred yards of treated cabinets and carpets. YUK.

I mean, it's just not for me.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2015 13:36     Subject: Minnesota is cold but you can get a 4 car garage new build w/ good schools for 580k!
Looks horrible to me -- I'll take my 4-bedroom colonial with neighbors and lots of beautiful old growth trees, and 1-car garage - oh well!
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2015 13:34     Subject: Minnesota is cold but you can get a 4 car garage new build w/ good schools for 580k!
Anonymous wrote:Puts the DC area homes to shame!

New builds, w/ 3 to 4 car garages!

https://www.redfin.com/MN/LAKEVILLE/19304-HUNTINGTON-AVE-55044/home/56509639


https://www.redfin.com/MN/LAKEVILLE/19357-HUNTINGTON-AVE-55044/home/55692280


https://www.redfin.com/MN/Lakeville/5258-167th-St-W-55044/home/50233733


After looking at the horse shit in Arlington this is solid gold
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2015 13:32     Subject: Minnesota is cold but you can get a 4 car garage new build w/ good schools for 580k!
Anonymous wrote:Well, real estate is all about location, location, location.

Check out what you can get for 1/2 mil in Cleveland, Los Vegas, Houston, etc. but you have to live there.


Schools are good and the area has a lot of large medical, tech and finance companies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Minnesota
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2015 13:31     Subject: Minnesota is cold but you can get a 4 car garage new build w/ good schools for 580k!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Welcome to "flyover country." We like it here!


Minnesota is not flyover country...


According to people in DC/NY/LA, anything that is not on the east or west coasts is flyover country.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2015 13:30     Subject: Minnesota is cold but you can get a 4 car garage new build w/ good schools for 580k!
If you think that's good but you don't like the weather - check out Dallas. We moved to Dallas 18 months ago and haven't looked back once. Awesome quality of life, and the summer heat isn't nearly as bad as I expected. It's beautiful and green here, great roads, great economy & jobs.