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One4All4Ever said: 
that's cool ... do it !   | |
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lovemachine said: Home ownership is huge and you certainly want to look into it and it will be a never ending supply of pride for you but be wary of foreclosures. The banks are very diffucult to deal with and many are assigned to loan brokers with bad deals such as penalties for early payment etc.
Also, we discovered that most of the foreclosures we looked at were gross beyond gross and needed thousands upon thousands of repairs just to make them livable. It seems that anything halfway close to decent were being nabbed by experience flippers with the ability to do the repairs themselves. The problem with most of the foreclosures is that people didn't have the money for routine upkeep and then as they were leaving they would gut the places. A lady we know said she went to look at a townhouse foreclosure and they had taken the carpet, counters, closet doors and basically anything else that would have any value. Also, be very very wary of going into places that don't show any pictures of the inside on the listing or very limited pictures. As we found out there is a reason for this  )I have heard all of this and it's good advice. I know I'll likely be wading through a lot of crap and it may take a lot of time to find what I'm looking for in my price range. But I look at it as like shopping flea markets/discount second-hand stores. If you really dig, you can often find something great. And I already know it's possible to find a livable foreclosure, turns out my friend Andy signed a purchase agreement on one himself yesterday. He closes in May.  |
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Do it Carrie. This is the time. It WILL appreciate. | |
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One4All4Ever said:
that's cool ... do it !  my dream house |
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Let me know when you do buy one so I can burn it to the ground. | |
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Slave2daGroove said: Let me know when you do buy one so I can burn it to the ground.
OK.  |
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CarrieMpls said: Slave2daGroove said: Let me know when you do buy one so I can burn it to the ground.
OK. Oh, I thought I was talking to myself on this thread, sorry. | |
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All the best to you and getting your home | |
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JerseyKRS said: Do it Carrie. This is the time. It WILL appreciate.
Go Carrie Go! The Normal Whores Club | |
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I haven't been on for a while but nothing new has happened with this topic. Have you toured any of the houses yet? | |
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emm said: own! own! own!
[list][*]my mortgage payment is lower than the rent i was paying [*]the monthly property tax installment evens that out [*]heating is an extra cost as is homeowner's insurance [*]and you have to be prepared for that plumber bill or what have you but! [*]in two years i've gained 50K in equity for this place. where else could you do that???[/list] Exactly!! | |
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