Well I am just shocked, SHOCKED I say! Well…not that shocked

  • solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    who’s got 5 digits in the bank for a down payment? let alone a bank that will approve a loan for the only “affordable” house which is affordable because it’s falling apart?

        • BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org
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          21 hours ago

          The floor price to buy a 2/1 house is $750,000 in my town. Assuming a standard 20% down payment you have to come up with $150,000 cash to buy the worst house in town.

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            19 hours ago

            Maybe. But. That’s assuming people are actually putting 20% down, which I doubt.

            And either way, even though prices are rising everywhere your area is still an outlier

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          3 days ago

          $100k is 20% of a $500k house. 20% is the traditionally “normal” amount, and $500k is a pretty average price in big cities these days…

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              3 days ago

              No it isn’t. It says “who has that?”, and “what bank would approve the loan for the falling apart shack that would buy”

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        3 days ago

        My dad bought a house for 5k the other day. He so excited goimg around looking for more. The house should of been torned down and the town has zero jobs. But it bound and determined to gst us all to move there. “So cheap” there reason for that.