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I am Homeless...

ccasey612ccasey612 Member Posts: 901 ✭✭✭✭
edited August 2002 in General Discussion
Well not exactly. I am throwing my money in the trash with this rent crap. I think is now time to buy a house. Intrest rates are low. My problem is I do not know where I want to move. I do not know what type of place I want to like. I am a city boy but am not afraid of the country. I want a dream home for my family. What is your dream home? What type of enviroment is it in.


If you will blame gun makers for every shooting then blame car maker for every car accident.
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  • njretcopnjretcop Member Posts: 7,975
    edited November -1
    Sometimes the process of elimination works..........so my best advice to you is: if the State of NJ is on your list, remove it, lol.

    Get me outta here.........help!!!!

    Charlie

    "It's the stuff dreams are made of Angel"NRA Certified Firearms InstructorMember: GOA, RKBA, NJSPBA, NJ area rep for the 2ndAMPD. njretcop@copmail.com
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  • E.WilliamsE.Williams Member Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Move on down here to lower Alabama right on the Gulf Coast,try Mobile its a fair sized city but still within reach of the country and just about anything else for that matter.Great summers and even better winters NO SNOW!You can find it all right here in DIXIE!

    Eric S. Williams
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  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,092 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well no matter what the location here is what has worked for me.
    I bought a fixer-upper at first and then sold it a couple of years later at 100% profit. The next one was also a fixer-upper and I rented it out after a couple of years. And so on.
    Now I own three houses that provide income and are worth more every day no matter what the stock market does.

    "If you ain't got pictures, I wasn't there."
    ?The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.?
    Margaret Thatcher

    "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
    Mark Twain
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  • ccasey612ccasey612 Member Posts: 901 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I work in VA right now and there are a mix of both. If I stay close to work I will have to pay more taxes, pay more for a house and pay more for land. Around my job land is about $10000 per acre compared to if I was to buy land at $2000 per acre 45 mins away.

    If you will blame gun makers for every shooting then blame car maker for every car accident.
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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,471 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Although the hunting and fishing are great in the area I live, I would cross Illinois off the list. Chicago has screwed this place up for the rest of us.

    Guns only have two enemies: Rust and Liberals....
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Get yourself a "buyer's broker" and let him or her start showing you things in your price range. I found that sitting home dreaming up my ideal house has nothing to do with what's on the market in your area, and you have to see a house to fall in lust with it. It will probably not turn out to be the style you were imagining anyway.

    You can decide you want a farmhouse in the country, but are you willing to spend all your time mowing and trimming and picking up leaves or cutting up trees and hauling them away after a big storm? And lots of people want those farmhouses so you may pay a premium. If your dream home is being able to shoot out your back door, you may never find a house where you live, with a huge back yard and a woods beyond, you're still not safe to shoot unless you know what's in the woods and beyond the woods. What if neighbor kids like to explore the woods?

    DON'T buy more house than you can afford to pay monthly and have a chunk of your income left over for repairs. Buying a house is like owning a used car. The payments don't cover it -- you'll have to have money for paint, fence repair, chimney, roof, windows, plumber, you name it. If you get the highest payment you can afford, you will soon realize you have nothing left at the end of the month to paint or fix the bathroom or do any upkeep. And never get a second mortgage bill consolidation loan. It takes unsecured credit card debt and attaches it to your house, which the credit card companies LOVE.

    Heheheheh.... Good luck.


    - Life NRA Member
    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Casey, (a) look at the laws (b) look at the employment opportunities in your field (c) look at the quality of life. Don't think anyone can do a lot to help you because this is a highly personal decision predicated on the individual's values, priorities and preferences. But if you are a "city boy," that narrows the choices real quickly if you want to keep & enjoy firearms, eliminating most of the metropolitan areas on the two coasts and in the upper Midwest!
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  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    www.property.com

    400 million cows can't be wrong ( EAT GRASS !!! )
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  • UNIVERSITY50UNIVERSITY50 Member Posts: 1,705 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    do not forget about the kids, the school system,how good is it? how long does it take for them to get to school and back, a long bus ride is not good! how close are others they will play with, etc.. these thing can take up alot of your's and the kid's time. safe place for them to grow up and play. where i live may not be out in the sticks but it not inner city either, two blocks to cows & horse, 1 mile to schools, 3miles to major shopping center. good police and fire protection. after 19 years here the only thing i miss from the city is the sidewalks and the street lights, i don't like walking on dark road with dog and kids.
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  • squeakycsqueakyc Member Posts: 204 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Try Eastern Ontario south of the Rideau River. You could by 100 acres of land, a house and outbuildings for around $150,000 Canadian. Do the conversion pretty cheap to live in the country up here.
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  • kgnovumkgnovum Member Posts: 594 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Lots of factors to consider when buying a home. Your income, age, job, family, future plans among others. Will it be permanent (more or less) or just a temporary stay? The list goes on. But be sure to check the Concealed Carry laws first!! As well as other guns laws.
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  • woodsrunnerwoodsrunner Member Posts: 5,378 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I must not be meant to reply to this thread. I tried before work today and got bumped off just before I hit the post new reply button. Then I get a responce typed out and the power goes off!! LOLOL

    Anyhow, Consider an older house in a small town. You get many of the advantages of the country and a few conveniences your used to having. That's what I did and here's why.

    I'm a block from the fire dept and ambulance corps.

    My street is plowed out right away after a snow storm.

    I can walk to a store or the post office.

    My yard is small enough to maintain in a few hours every week, but there are woods behind me.

    I have town water, The farm I grew up on and every other well in this township has lots of sulfur. That's great if you like the smell of rotten eggs.

    There are 6 gun clubs within a 20 minute drive of me, 2 of them are within 10 minutes.

    I live on a dead end street and three out of four houses have two or more firearms in them. Guess what our crime rate is.

    If I had kids they could walk to school or activities. You don't want to know how many miles a farmer's wife puts on a car hauling kids to and from things.

    My neighbors are for the most part pretty laid back and not troublemakers. If you need thier help they are there. It's not unusual to sit on the porch or under a shade tree and discuss the weather with a neighbor.

    I often refer to Hamlin, NY as almost Mayberry, try a small town,

    Woods
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  • ccasey612ccasey612 Member Posts: 901 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    woodsrunner,

    You hit what I am looking for dead center. I want to live some place where I do not have to drink from a well but the air is not filled with smogg. I want a nice pretty lawn that I can spend time taking care of. I want to live in a place where every one likes each other and does not dare walk by with out speaking. I want to live in a place where when you are out of town folks look after you house not brake into it. I want to live in a place where me and a few guys can sit on the portch together and clean guns. That's my ideal place. I was raised in 1 house in philadelphia almost my entire life. That is the way I would like it to be for my kids. To know one place as home.

    If you will blame gun makers for every shooting then blame car maker for every car accident.
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