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Not a lot of privacy in the bathroom though and it is a short sale so it''s probably a teaser price.
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http://www.redfin.com/CA/Redondo-Beach/2012-Robinson-St-90278/home/6685773
 
Okay...the bathroom comment has me thrown...I don''t know if you''re serious or not. But, if you are--and have an additional 100k--you could flip that place and it would be really adorable.
 
Oy vey.
 
Eek. And I thought our bay area fixer upper we''re buying this week needed a lot of work.
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I''m officially horrified.
 
Oh, oh my. Too bad I''m used to your avatar, as that''s about the only response that seems appropriate.
 
Tee hee about the bathroom!! Gosh, I thought OUR house was a fixer upper...
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North Carolina is looking better and better...
 
TGal, I feel your pain! Housing prices are so high here compared to the rest of the country. I guess that''s just what you have to deal with if you want to be in SoCal - the weather is so great today! Any time I think perhaps we''ll move somewhere less expensive, I remember the weather (and no mosquitos!) and I decide it''s probably worth it even if it means I can never retire...!

Good luck!
 
Uhhhhhmmmmmm thankfully California is SO not for me.
 
Terrifying
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Wow...and I thought Long Island prices were bad. This shocked me.
 
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OMG.
 
Oh sweet heaven!
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That''s a bit of a fixer upper!
 
I had no idea the Redondo market was that inflated.
 
HI:

Has anyone said "yikes'' yet???
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cheers--Sharon
 
and to think 2 years ago what this would have sold for.......location location location.

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Hence why I plan on moving when the time comes. I just can''t afford Orange County, and Southern California in general.
 
I''m glad I live in Texas! That house, in that condition, would be torn down here; and if it were not, it would sell for about $40,000.00, (someone would buy it for the lot and tear the house down)!

The house DH and I saw today, that I would love to have, is $149,900. And it was move-in ready, in a great neighborhood, updated kitchen, new bathrooms, new tile, new carpet, new paint, etc. It had a deck, privacy fence, sprinkler system, security system, was nicely landscaped with mature trees, and so on.

And still, DH says, "I don''t know. I''m not really ready to do this. I didn''t think we were serious yet; I thought we were just looking and seeing what''s available." I bit my tongue to keep from saying things I can''t take back. We''ve been looking for a month, we have a realtor, we are preapproved for a loan; how could he think we weren''t SERIOUSLY LOOKING?
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So at this point, we''re hardly speaking to one another. I''m too po''d to really be much more than barely civil.
 
wow, oh wow. Seriously? Well, it''s a good thing it''s sunny for what, 360 days of the year there....better to live outside


I think that would go for about $30 k around here (tear down and build kind of thing. I guess that is what the buyer would do? A 1/2 mil for the lot
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Date: 7/12/2009 12:00:07 PM
Author: Bia
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North Carolina is looking better and better...
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Oh man, that sucks!!!!
 
Yes...another reason why DH and I are moving back to the midwest. We were thrilled with what our budget would buy there (a much smaller budget than yours).

Any chance you would settle for a condo though? My friends just bought a very high-end nice 2 bedroom/2 bath condo in brentwood no less for about your budget...something to consider...
 
This is horrifying... I can think of several better things to do with 475,000. Move to Melbourne, you can get a nice house in the suburbs for that amount
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Dear lord!!!!
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That house would sell here in NW PA for about $10K, and that would include a nice lot!!!
 
Yup, so cal is crazy. But we can get a smaller house if the lot is big enough because we can do most of our year round living outdoors. Yeah, not worth it, I know.

Italia, yes, I was kidding. So Cal real estate is nuts, but that listing really made my eyebrows raise - and I look at a lot of listings!!

steph, I know FL is considered to have nice weather, but I can''t stand the weather there. Nice in winter, but the humidity in summer, plus the hurricanes! I need nice weather year round! Where I live, it''s about 65-80 degrees year round with very little humidity and no bugs whatsoever.

Holly, hopefully your DH will come around. If you find the RIGHT house, you should buy it. After all, at that price, it''s not like you''re that much under if the market keeps going down. Here in Ca, it''s possible to be down 100-150K on what you paid for your house. My bro is 100K down, but he also sold at the right time and wouldn''t have made 250K on his little house if he didn''t choose to move at the time.

kcoursolle, no way I''d do a condo in this market. They are losing value the fastest and I don''t see the point in buying air. I''d rather keep renting my cheap, flea infested apartment and put away 26K a year! Plus I really want a yard for the kid.
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OMG that house is nasty!!!!!!!


Holly: you and your DH should buy that house. What a steal of a price. My girlfriend lives in Fort Worth and I can''t believe the prices she tells me of the houses there.
 
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