Foley, Alabama. 1,700 sf brand new home with 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2 car garage, town water and sewer with no grinder pumps, huge master suite with a walk in closet that will make any wife very happy, and a huge screened backyard patio for $170K. Annual property taxes? $550!
Nice! Since it's a ground level ranch one of the first projects will be a flagstone patio off the back door. When I rent the bobcat to clear my first 50-100 yard range I'll dig about a foot deep and fill it halfway with river rock, then sand, then flagstone. Maybe 30x30 ft or so, put a 10x10 screened gazebo in the middle, hot tub on one side, loose brick bbq on the other.
This had better go nowhere.
Swap the house size with the garage size and that's my dream. Hell I'll take a tent with a 2000 sqft garage.
There's a one car carport attached to the house, off the kitchen. Finished interior walls and poured concrete floor. Gonna frame the "door" and make it a dedicated gun room/office. I get to frame it, it will NOT be easy access...
173k is a lot when you consider that decent jobs are not easy to come by there and the wages are no higher than $20/hr. Unless married and wife works, that's a lifetime to pay off the mortgage.
There's a website, shows COL differentials. I expect to make 15 percent less and save close to 40. Last Radtekk wants a minimum 1/4 acre garden for veggies ready by spring, there's a nice two acre or so pasture that she plans to line with blackberry, blueberry and raspberry bushes.
I plan to find somebody to log and replant an acre a year, make a few bucks that way. Maybe dedicate 1/2 to 1/2 acre to solar, hopefully net a couple hundred a month on average. The house is south facing anyway
so within two years with well, septic, solar, logging, garden, maybe chickens (house already has a coop) we should be pretty close to net zero expenses except for fill-in groceries. Now, if I can get a cell phone tower...
But you still get low taxes and can shoot from your back porch.
Daughter saw a house listing in MO near her. $200K - share a pond. If they were staying in the .af, hubby would have put $ down right away. Fishing off the back deck??? Oh yeah! LOL
That TN property tax is about half of what MA property taxes are, on like sized properties. Although there are a crap-ton more amenities here and the schools are far better as well.
Amen! And the taxes on the 1500sq ft split level on 1/2 acre in Chelmsford I'm currently renting at $1890/mo are $6000/yr
If only I could convince my wife, thrn again depending on the pay scale diffetential depends on how much money we could bring with us
As above, I'll take a 15-20% pay cut max and save 40% or more minimum. And of course never have a rent increase. 49 days out from close I'm looking to lock at 4% or less with zero points.