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

 

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.

 

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 **** 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 ****** 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.