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"mazda616" (mazda616) 02/07/2015 at 22:06 • Filed to: Houselopnik

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We are outgrowing our home. It's our first place and we have lived there for going on three years. It is a decent house - just small, old, and not in a decent neighborhood. We are trying to move out of the city and closer to where my grandparents live. May have found just the ticket today.

Built in 2001, very desirable neighborhood, original owners, and a nice two-car garage. Yeah, I wasn't really looking to live in a subdivision, but at least this is a quiet neighborhood and isn't the typical cookie-cutter where every house is the same. Plus, the backyard backs up to fields and my grandparents actually live on the other side of those.

It needs nothing but for us to move in. Wouldn't even have to paint. Me like. We'd finish the fence there at the back so our dog wouldn't take off chasing an errant rabbit, but that's all.

We have to make an offer on Monday, though, as it is listed at a great price and likely to sell quickly.

I'm already stressing out remembering the process we went through buying our first home. But, that garage is amazing. I'm already picturing how clean my car will be.

bob and john > mazda616 02/07/2015 at 22:08

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that is a realluy nice house....the backyard (to me) screams motorcycle/man shed

JR1 > mazda616 02/07/2015 at 22:13

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Beautiful house and you don't see a bunch of neighbors out back. Good choice hope you get it!

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > mazda616 02/07/2015 at 22:14

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You have a 2 car garage and a driveway, back yard, wow. Where I live that house would be a million dollars, not joking.

ly2v8-Brian > mazda616 02/07/2015 at 22:23

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Country life, best life.

mazda616 > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 02/07/2015 at 22:29

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One reason to love my area. We'll be able to get this place for $150k easily.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > mazda616 02/07/2015 at 22:32

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I can't do my job from an area like that and my wife is not American and works for a company in SF so she has to be here too. Makes my life harder to do any projects.

mazda616 > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 02/07/2015 at 22:34

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It's not all sunshine and roses here. There are like no jobs and the city's economy depends entirely on two businesses (the hospital and a bank that set up a mortgage servicing center here). Neither of those companies pay all that well, so anyone with a higher income job has to travel. A lot. And if those two companies ever packed up shop, we'd all be screwed.

XJDano > mazda616 02/07/2015 at 22:39

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Good luck on the house.

Got a basement? HOA/ subdivision dues? (Those suck)

My first house was 3Bed 1.5 bath slab & oversized 2 car garage in kind of the lower middle class, 50 year old house

Second was 3 & 2.5 full unfinished basement & 3 car with a better interest rate. More uppity neighborhood with pools.

ranwhenparked > mazda616 02/07/2015 at 22:42

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There must be something wrong with me, because the first thing that popped out to me was the awesome concrete driveway. Guess who won't have to worry about re-sealing/re-paving in the foreseeable future?

mazda616 > XJDano 02/07/2015 at 22:42

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No basement, no HOAs. It's on the back edge of a neighborhood that is really uppity. Basically, there's the uppity neighborhood (huge four to five bedroom behemoths) and a kind of blah neighborhood (small-ish ranch houses all built in the early-'80s, used to be nice but have fallen into various states of disrepair) and then there's the row of houses this one is in that are kind of right in between blah and uppity. So the HOAs end with the uppity neighborhood just up the street, thankfully.

PatBateman > mazda616 02/07/2015 at 22:46

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SKEET SHOOTING PARTY!!!

I'll bring the keg.

Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man > mazda616 02/07/2015 at 22:49

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Your not buying a house, your buying a garage, with a bonus house attached.

PyramidHat > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 02/07/2015 at 22:59

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Yep. If you're not a programmer or have founders stock, buying a house is a bitch here...

PyramidHat > mazda616 02/07/2015 at 23:01

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Is that in PA? Have you designed the garage layout, yet?

mazda616 > PyramidHat 02/07/2015 at 23:04

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It's in Kentucky. And I've already pictured garage layouts but I'm trying not to get my hopes up, as hard as that is! Another couple did their second wall-through today, so they might get their offer in before we do.

Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > mazda616 02/08/2015 at 00:45

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My mother wants to move into a bigger house. we only have 4 rooms, so when a visitor comes, we have to share rooms. Father wants a larger garage for motorcycle/car things, and so do I. I'm fine with living here, but I won't contest moving. There is a house we liked, but it is too expensive at its current asking price. Main floor and stairs need to be reno'd as well, making it over what we want to pay, unless they accept our offer.

BJ > mazda616 02/08/2015 at 07:24

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Crazy cheap for a nice house, but like you said not much in the area for work. I live in a huge city with endless opportunities and enjoy the conveniences it provides - everything is waking distance or accessible by subway - but I dream of having open space around me like that. Commuting here is a nightmare so I'm just going to have to tough it out.

When the kids are grownups, I'm going to get a small apartment in the city for the work week, and live in the country on the weekends.

Good luck with the house!

Alex B > mazda616 02/08/2015 at 07:47

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Nice home. It's nice to see something smaller with character once and while. :)