New House
 

Well, I moved into my new house 2 weeks ago. It's in S. Arlington,TX.

It's 2470sq/ft, 2 story, 2.5 baths, 4 bedrooms, 1 study, 2 living areas, formal dining area (pool room now), a decent sized kitchen, and 2 car garage.

First, I decided to wash the Miata in the FREE car wash, you know, the bucket, water hose, in the driveway wash.

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Front
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First room inside front door
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From the other corner, the black chair is next to the front door
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Office/Toy Room
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Living Room/Kitchen
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From corner by sliding backdoor. The doorway in the center of the pic goes to the pool table, plus the office is on the other side of the red wall
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Upstairs Game Room
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All the rooms are upstairs, including the laundry room
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I'm renting a 1 bedroom shack. Does have a pool table though...

Geez I can only dream of owning a house like that where I live.

Nice house BTW.:bigtu:

very nice! im jealous, what was the $$ if you feel like sharing?

nice house ..use some of that money and go get your car painted:)

looks great man. Your miata reminds me of mine =)

you're miata is more colors than mine! congratulations!

Nice house....wish I could afford a house w/ a driveway and garage.....arg...

good looking lady (not the little one, I'm not into kids) ;)

Appraised for $142,000, paid $121,500.

That is why it isn't painted. Needed a house first. I am SLOWLY working to complete my Miata. Hoping to be done by Halett 2008.

I have waited 12 yrs to get a house. I am 30, and been a renter since I was 18. It was on my list of "first things I want to do" when I bought it. It was AWESOME washing my car in MY driveway. I normally wouldn't bother washing it, as this was only the third time I had (owned it for over 1 1/2 yrs).

I am gonna paint it red eventually, should I leave the top white or get it red, too?

Thanks. She is pretty hot. :)

You paid only $121,500 for a house like that!

Fuck! a house like that where I live would cost $900,000-$1.2 million.

I should move to Texas.

And here in Carlsbad, CA (San Diego county) it'd be even more.

move to a hickville on the east coast, it will be even less :bigtu:

.....but that's southern california! where the weather is perfect and the women are hotter.

there's pretty much fuck all here in Vancouver.

I much prefer the west coast.

Everybody says that, but I shit you not- it rained yesterday! Gotta be the third or fourth time this year, and they're predicting rainfall again, possibly as early as November.

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Yea, a house like that goes for around 250K around here. 400K+ if it's 1 block north of the beach. 1M if it's on beach boulevard, although you wouldn't see a house that small on beach boulevard.

That's it? Shit we get rain 3-4 days a week,and they are predicting rain fall from now to April.

damn, even here in East TN, a house like that would be well over $150k. I'd venture to guess over $200, but i'm no real estate expert. And I thought I was moving away from high priced housing (originally from chicago). Even on my meager salary I could afford a $120k house like that :) Nice place man.

Man that is a good price, even for the area I'm in now you made out good. Cookeville,TN is super cheap to live and that price is right around what you would pay here for a similar house.

A far cry from the 1bedroom condo scott just bought. $120k is amazing for that house. Just shows you though how inflated the price on them can be. The materials and labor to make them doesn't really change much from coast to coast I would venture.

Very very nice indeed !!
You'd pay about 350,000 euros ($496,211) here in Ireland for a place about less than half the width of your garage :eek4:

amazing, i do consider moving to texas for that reason, i wouldn't even have to work, i'd let the girlfriend do it all!

congrats- smart move, home ownership. And now you've got a paint booth (garage) in addition to your car wash. :D

i've been looking for a garage with a house attached to it as well, still not much luck

I think my rent is like 3x your house payment. but then I have a view of the capitol building and washington monument from my street.

Thats a good thing?

Maybe if you have a sniper rifle? :P

still a ban on guns here in the district...

and yeah it's a good thing. the capitol and monuments are gorgeous buildings. I can't say the same for all the people in them (cough W cough) but giant marble structures are cool.

Congrats and nice looking house. There's nothing like washing your car in your own driveway.

I'm in the process of building our house. We bought this lot last April and soon there will be a house somewhere in those trees.

Hot damn. I thought property was cheap here in SC. Our 1800sq ft. was $144k

Congrats on the house. Feels good to be a homeowner :)

can I come over? lulz

First order of business before you pile all your shit in the garage. Epoxy the floor. I just did it in mine but I had to prep my floor because the house is 8 years old now. Got up all the coolant/oil stains. It really classes up the garage.

So lemme guess. The pool room and garage are yours and the wife gets the rest of the house? :) That's the arrangement I have. I get to customized the basement and garage and the wife can do what she wants with the rest of the house.

Frank

dude here in ok you would get 6,000 less sq ft than that. nice house,

Sure, any time.

I don't play pool much, that is the wife's. I get the garage and the upstairs game room.

congrats on the house. killer bargain. we've been looking as well. in decents parts of LA, that house is about 700K +/-. but again, i have no idea where Arlington, TX is...

It's about time I sell my overpriced (but nice) house here in the inflated MD-DC market, buy something like ray_sir_6 in a different area, retire and have some fun with the left over money.

Hard to believe the untapped real estate market bargains in different areas of the country.

Frank

2500 sqft for 122k = < $50/sqft very good buy. new construction on a 1/4 acre lot in town here runs about 100 to 120 per sqft depending on trim level.

not to bash ray sir 6 or his housing choice (since I dont know where it is), but is it still a bargain if it's not in a nice location?

I mean crap you can buy a 200k house in DC if you dont mind living between crack whores and their dealers.

This is a nice place. It's in a very low crime area, plus just north of Mansfield, which is one of the new "Richie Rich" cities, and one of the fastest growing cities in the area. Doubled it's population in the last 10 yrs, plus has the best (and newest) school district in the metroplex, which our house is in that district, so my daughter will be going there.

We could have gotten a house this size for $98k if we wanted to live in the bad part of Arlington, and put bars on all our windows.

A nice location in Arlington TX is much cheaper than a nice location in the DC burbs.

Similar goes for SC, ARK, and other states where the housing market didn't ridiculously inflate. Hell, I couldn't afford my house in the Baltimore 'burbs if I had to buy it at todays prices. I bought it in '00 right before the market took off. It's worth over twice what I paid.

Frank

the great equalizer is "where do you want to live" I guess. I personally have no desire to live in crack hoods or Texas. I like the bay area ($1,000,000 homes) so I guess I'm just plain fuct.

and I don't want to live in DC, with their rediculous populus and rediculous cost of living.

so I live north of Atlanta, where I have a 'DC area $1M home' on 1.5 acres that's worth $200-something in GA, and in a nice area, surrounded by country clubs. :)

I think working one year on the mall and playing football next to the monuments kind of burns out their appeal. When I first moved here I was like "Wow theres the washington monument!", nowadays I don't really see the appeal. Then again, I don't have a welder either. :sadwavey:

Hell, I'd like to live in Texas. Or Florida. Or anyplace else where the cost of living is reasonable. Problem is I can't find a job in those places...

there's the second chapter of the story.

salaries are inflated in silicon valley too :)

ben: who wants to live by country clubs? if I want racially insensitive rich guys, i can just go to congress.

This is silicone valley, my friend. World 'o difference.

The Dept. of Labor regional adjustment table that my company uses (we are after all a gov't contractor) says that I got a 10% salary adjustment when they transferred me from Cincinnati to San Diego. That wouldn't have been a problem if I were one of the many folks who moved out here during the 90's, instead of the one guy who got transferred in 2003 after the 400% inflation.

Upon leaving Maineville, OH (an upscale suburb outside the 275 loop on the N.E side of the Cincy area) I sold my 1500 sf home (with oversized 2 car garage and another 1500sf full basement on about 1/4 acre) for $160,000. Here in Carlsbad I pay $1,700 a month rent for a 700sf 1 bedroom apartment with 1 car garage. A house like the one I had in Ohio would cost me a minimum of $600,000 if I moved further inland, and over $800,000 where I am now.

Inflated salary my ass...

I took a significant pay cut moving out of the sf bay area. AND i pay more rent. now that's just f'd up.

You're retarded. :)

I just don't get the appeal of this area. The weather isn't good in the winter or the summer. If the cost of living is gonna be this high, we should at least have beautiful weather like Cali!

As a convertible owner, weather is important to me.

Frank

In NY a house like that would go for twice what it would go for where you live.

You guys notice he took pics of the whole house and not the most important part? The garage. :nono:

Congrats on the house.

haha, well I didn't move here for the weather.

I moved for the poon.

In NY the city never sleeps or shuts down,there is always something to do or somewhere to go if your bored,you get what you pay for.

In Vancouver everything shuts down at 2AM.It's a fucking ripoff to live here.

The only bad thing about Texas is that the property tax is fucking ridiculous. Also Texas does not have California's Prop 13 where Prop tax increases are capped every year.

As for FLorida, the real estate value sucks right now so it might be a great time to buy.

I think you cover your toys really well in the corner :)

I am putting up shelves this week.