how much does career suicide cost?

[Marvin [GodfatherofSoul] Bellamy]

LOL.  Spoken like a true bachelor :)  Seriously though, I've heard that 
any new house under $300K is suspect.  I have several friends hell bent 
on living the southern JoCo life in those developments.  The classic 
$150K house is made of low grade hardware and is shoddily put together 
at that.  I haven't heard *anyone* brag about their house and some of 
them are already having to replace things like garage door openers.  To 
top it off, you can get lost in your own neighborhood because all the 
houses look alike!

Michael wrote:

>I want a yurt. If I decide to move I can pack it all back up on the back
>of my pickup and take it with me, it's a lot cheaper than most homes, it's
>sort of hackable which appeals to the geek in me, and as it wears out I
>can just toss it and get another one for less than most people would pay
>to maintain their normal home.
>
>Seriously though.. what do people need with a quarter of a million dollar
>home? I want a place to sleep, watch tv, use my computer, shower, input,
>output, and occassionally invite a female over. I can do all that in 500sq
>ft of space with room to spare. I could custom build a house to my needs
>for under $30,000 including the land and a nice solar/wind system.
>
>
>Don't dream it. Be it.
>
>;):):-):):-):):-)8')
>Michael McGlothlin <mogmios at mlug.missouri.edu>
>http://kavlon.org/projects/
>
>On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Rusty wrote:
>
>>Here's a side note (at best) about housing. On the way to work just
>>yesterday I heard that the average new home cost in the KC area (may
>>have been JoCo, I wasn't listening with both ears since I'm light years
>>away from home purchasing with just being divorced and all...) is
>>$287,000. I'd like a job that would allow me to buy half that. And then
>>find something worth that...
>>
>>
>>--- Bradley Miller <bradmiller at dslonramp.com> wrote:
>>
>>>At 07:02 PM 8/1/02 -0500, Marvin [GodfatherofSoul] Bellamy wrote:
>>>
>>>>BTW, to you
>>>>home owners out there with some business knowledge.  Why is the
>>>>
>>>housing
>>>
>>>>market still climbing?  You'd think that the value of housing would
>>>>
>>>drop
>>>
>>>>now that fewer people can afford them.
>>>>
>>>That's the wildcard in this weird economy -- a lot of people are
>>>asking
>>>those same questions.  I *thought* I read that existing home sales is
>>>down,
>>>while new home sales is still up?  Perhaps I'm wrong . . .
>>>
>>>My theory?  (And it can only be called that at best . . . )  I think
>>>that
>>>some people are still trading up/out/etc... while the interest rates
>>>are
>>>lower.  Why buy someone's used home for $100,000 when you can get a
>>>brand
>>>new home for $140,000 and about the same payment that someone 4-5
>>>years ago
>>>had?  That being said, I haven't seen too many new homes that I would
>>>want
>>>to pay even $100,000 for.  They are sloppily put together, cheap
>>>looking
>>>interior wise, and about as useful as  . . . well you get picture.
>>>I'm
>>>quite happy with my 20 year old house (1982 - hard to fathom . . . )
>>>that
>>>has a nice large driveway and real wood everywhere.  Our home was
>>>model
>>>home for this subdivision when it opened up so it has a lot of little
>>>neato
>>>(for the time) things to spruce it up
>>>
>>>-- Bradley Miller
>>>
>>>
>>>majordomo at kclug.org
>>>
>>>
>>>majordomo at kclug.org
>>>
>>
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