JustErin said:

The Harper's (The fool's who borrowed 450.000.00 on their house and lost it)

Went from this




To this

banks said:

Yeah, but they didn't go into foreclosure cuz they couldn't afford the maintenance. PLUS Beazer, the homebuilder, gave them $250,000 for scholarships for the 3 kids and home maintenance. They mismanaged their finances, plain and simple.

And anyone who owns a house knows that your property taxes are assessed every year and if you make any improvements your property taxes are going up. So, these people were fully aware BEFORE the homes were rebuilt that their utilities and property taxes were likely increasing afterwards. They coulda just said no.
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SCNDLS said:

I know these fool's lost the house cause they borrowed that money to start a construction company that went belly up

banks said:

I wanna know what happened to the $250k
[Edited 12/1/09 18:36pm]

JustErin said:

roodboi said:

even if it was grown in a pot of dirt?

SCNDLS said:

3200 is huge to most people.

ZombieKitten said:

hydro isnt grown in the dirt you silly australian...

JustErin said:

No kidding. That's frickin' gigantic.

roodboi said:

so you will specifically differentiate between plants grown hydroponically and those say, grown in a pot on someone's balcony for example?

roodboi said:

so you will specifically differentiate between plants grown hydroponically and those say, grown in a pot on someone's balcony for example?

JustErin said:

No kidding. That's frickin' gigantic.

CarrieMpls said:

I think thats kinda relative, too....down here, most new homes built are between 2700 and 3400 sq ft...and these places really arent that big...usually total sq footage includes garages, porches and patios so the number may be a lil' skewed and make the house sound larger than it is...

CarrieMpls said:

I think thats kinda relative, too....down here, most new homes built are between 2700 and 3400 sq ft...and these places really arent that big...usually total sq footage includes garages, porches and patios so the number may be a lil' skewed and make the house sound larger than it is...

ZombieKitten said:

big differences...from appearance to quality of effect

CarrieMpls said:

Like I said it's relative. 3000+ sq ft homes are very common in Texas so that's not a "mansion" to me. You can get one in a good suburban neighborhood for under $200,000 before the economy crashed and our property values haven't dropped that much since. My house is 4000 sq ft but my utitilies are only slightly higher than they were in my 1600 sq ft cuz this one's more energy efficient.

JustErin said:

No kidding. That's frickin' gigantic.

My gawd. How much does a house like that cost 'down there'?

Here that would be considered HUGE. And would have a gigantic price tag as well, far, far over the median home price.

I just did a search and there are NO homes for sale that are larger than 3000 sq ft in my zip code.

Only 3 listed more than 2500 sq feet.


There are only a handful over 3000 listed for sale in the entire city of Minneapolis.

CarrieMpls said:

150 to 200 thousand average...

roodboi said:

That's insanely inexpensive comparatively. Wow.

roodboi said:

That's insanely inexpensive comparatively. Wow.

CarrieMpls said:

southern, non-metro living has oodles of advantages...that being a key one as far as I'm concerned...

CarrieMpls said:

Like I said it's relative. 3000+ sq ft homes are very common in Texas so that's not a "mansion" to me. You can get one in a good suburban neighborhood for under $200,000 before the economy crashed and our property values haven't dropped that much since. My house is 4000 sq ft but my utitilies are only slightly higher than they were in my 1600 sq ft cuz this one's more energy efficient.

CarrieMpls said:

haha, yah. in new york city that's beyond gigantic. that's high roller shit. people here live in apartments that size of other people's walk-in closets!

CarrieMpls said:

150 to 200 thousand average...

SCNDLS said:

No one called 3000 a mansion.