Sometimes when I'm bored I like to randomly explore homes on Zillow.

[shortylickens]

410 Wood End Ct, Charles Town, WV 25414 | Zillow

410 Wood End Ct, Charles Town WV, is a Single Family home that contains 2162 sq ft and was built in 1996.It contains 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.This home last sold for $435,000 in November 2020. The Zestimate for this Single Family is $546,100, which has decreased by $2,965 in the last 30...

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Thats nice but I'd need a service to take care of the lawn. OR, if I were retired I guess I'd install a shack and buy a rider mower.
Basement is big enough it could either be storage, or a nice game room. Maybe set up a driving simulator or flight simulator.

 

[BoomerD]

Olive Branch MS Real Estate - Olive Branch MS Homes For Sale | Zillow

Zillow has 91 homes for sale in Olive Branch MS. View listing photos, review sales history, and use our detailed real estate filters to find the perfect place.

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[IronWing]

Why explore random homes on Zillow when you can do it in person?

 

[jameny5]

Check out HotPad's from the comfort of your couch. Go to Google Play and download it.

 

[shortylickens]

Why explore random homes on Zillow when you can do it in person?

Here, Let Me Google That For You

Passive-aggressively teach your friends how to Google. For all those people who find it more convenient to ask you rather than search it themselves. Not associated with Google.

googlethatforyou.com

 

[zinfamous]

Why explore random homes on Zillow when you can do it in person?

he got tossed out the last time he showed up with his waifu pillow and asked that the realtor address it as "Shelley."

 

[lxskllr]

Realtor?! Only n00bs look at houses on the market. Everything's been prettied up to hide defects and accentuate the positive aspects. Just walk into various houses and check them out. If you see one you like, make an offer. Everything's for sale. The only question is price.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

Trulia is my favorite site to browse property -

Southern AZ in the high desert & Western Kentucky by LBL is my favotire spots to browse currently.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I've been trying to find off grid land lately and sometimes I find myself looking at the houses too for fun. It's fun to see what is the cheapest house in my area, or the most expensive. This is most expensive in my city right now:

Check out this listing

360 Roche AVE, Timmins, Ontario P4N5Z6

www.realtor.ca

1 Million And 14k taxes.

It's a nice house, but that's just nuts. The taxes would be the real killer. The mortgage eventually gets paid off, but taxes are forever. You can't retire in a house like that.

I felt like a baller when I sorted by highest price though.

 

[BoomerD]

Realtor?! Only n00bs look at houses on the market. Everything's been prettied up to hide defects and accentuate the positive aspects. Just walk into various houses and check them out. If you see one you like, make an offer. Everything's for sale. The only question is price.

I agree with your last bit...but if you just walk into my house...you're probably going out in a body bag.

 

[lxskllr]

I agree with your last bit...but if you just walk into my house...you're probably going out in a body bag.

That's not how you get maximum price for your house!

 

[Red Squirrel]

If you are really bold you don't even put an offer first you just start moving all their stuff outside and start moving your stuff into it and when they call the cops, then you put an offer.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

This is most expensive in my city right now:

Check out this listing

360 Roche AVE, Timmins, Ontario P4N5Z6

www.realtor.ca

You live in the middle of fuckin nowhere. I'm all for living in a small town, but you're basically 8hrs from a Intl airport and in the winter - that must be a 3-day drive.

$1M Canadian - LOL

429 California St, Santa Clara, CA 95050 - See Est. Value, Schools & More

429 California St, Santa Clara, CA 95050 is a 1,325 sqft, 4 bed, 3 bath home sold in 2021. See the estimate, review home details, and search for homes nearby.

www.trulia.com

 

[Spacehead]

The house in the OP needs to get some trees planted. I don't care for the 'we just built a house in the middle of an old field' look.

 

[MrSquished]

All that lawn looks useless. Plus you'd be stuck in West Virginia. Double bummer.

 

[Spacehead]

I've been trying to find off grid land lately and ...

Last time i saw you post a price on land it was pretty cheap(i thought, per acre), though it was a large acreage, so large $$$.

I keep an eye out for land but it usually seems like too large of acreage(& $$$) for me. I'd like to find something in the 5-20 acre range, wooded.
I don't really need it, i'm sitting on all the land i need now. But i would be nice to have something else just for, i don't even know, investment i guess. If you buy some land i don't think you could ever lose money on it over time.
With the pandemic & now my work situation i'm not in the market at all.

 

[Red Squirrel]

You live in the middle of fuckin nowhere. I'm all for living in a small town, but you're basically 8hrs from a Intl airport and in the winter - that must be a 3-day drive.

$1M Canadian - LOL

429 California St, Santa Clara, CA 95050 - See Est. Value, Schools & More

429 California St, Santa Clara, CA 95050 is a 1,325 sqft, 4 bed, 3 bath home sold in 2021. See the estimate, review home details, and search for homes nearby.

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About 8 hour drive to Toronto. But now that we have porter you can fly there for under a grand, so not really a big deal. Not like I travel all that often or have a need to. There's no reason to travel when you live in a good area anyway. Less people, less traffic, more nature etc. Though this city is getting pretty bad crime wise and also getting very expensive (taxes). There's smaller cities all around, I want to eventually live in one of those, or off grid.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Last time i saw you post a price on land it was pretty cheap(i thought, per acre), though it was a large acreage, so large $$$.

I keep an eye out for land but it usually seems like too large of acreage(& $$$) for me. I'd like to find something in the 5-20 acre range, wooded.
I don't really need it, i'm sitting on all the land i need now. But i would be nice to have something else just for, i don't even know, investment i guess. If you buy some land i don't think you could ever lose money on it over time.
With the pandemic & now my work situation i'm not in the market at all.

Yeah it's decently cheap, I just need to jump fast enough once something I can afford pops up since it sells fast. There is not a lot of unorganized township land anymore so everyone wants in. With costs of living going up and the world in general going to shit I think lot of people are starting to get the same idea of wanting to live off grid.

There was a really nice parcel of like 300 acres for 75k a while back, but a bit beyond what I can afford, otherwise I would have jumped on that one. I'm sure something in my price range will come up though, I don't don't want to wait too long as I have a feeling this type of land will get rarer and more expensive over the years. I only really want like 40 acres, I'd even settle for 1 acre if it's lake front. But 100+ for a good price, why not. Would be cool to build trails and stuff and have lot of toys like ATVs and skidoos to play with, and not need insurance and all that crap since I'd keep it on my land.

 

[shortylickens]

The house in the OP needs to get some trees planted. I don't care for the 'we just built a house in the middle of an old field' look.

Hypothetically if I were to buy it I'd plant trees. Actually if I had that kind of money I could pay a guy to do it. And put up a fence around what looks to be a quarter mile of perimeter.
The reason I was daydreaming about THIS house is because it sits in the middle of an "old field" I could play music and movies as loud as I want and its unlikely the neighbors would complain. And I would never hear them. Heck, as long as it is I wonder if I could get a construction team to set up a 25 yard indoor range. Dig down into the earth a few feet, lay out a concrete floor, brick walls and roof. My own personal indoor range. Can shoot whenever I like.

 

[Spacehead]

There was a really nice parcel of like 300 acres for 75k a while back, but a bit beyond what I can afford, otherwise I would have jumped on that one.

That was probably the one i was thinking of. Cheap per acre but yeah, a lot of $$$ to lay down all at once.

Hypothetically if I were to buy it I'd plant trees. Actually if I had that kind of money I could pay a guy to do it. And put up a fence around what looks to be a quarter mile of perimeter.
The reason I was daydreaming about THIS house is because it sits in the middle of an "old field" I could play music and movies as loud as I want and its unlikely the neighbors would complain. And I would never hear them. Heck, as long as it is I wonder if I could get a construction team to set up a 25 yard indoor range. Dig down into the earth a few feet, lay out a concrete floor, brick walls and roof. My own personal indoor range. Can shoot whenever I like.

Yeah, it is situated nice on that property for the 'there's no one near me' feeling.

In a friend of mines parents house they had a range in the basement. Basically a culvert pipe laid under ground that one end was open into the basement. I assume there was a wire/rope retrieval thing for the targets, don't really remember. Pretty cool though.

 

[ponyo]

Yeah it's decently cheap, I just need to jump fast enough once something I can afford pops up since it sells fast. There is not a lot of unorganized township land anymore so everyone wants in. With costs of living going up and the world in general going to shit I think lot of people are starting to get the same idea of wanting to live off grid.

There was a really nice parcel of like 300 acres for 75k a while back, but a bit beyond what I can afford, otherwise I would have jumped on that one. I'm sure something in my price range will come up though, I don't don't want to wait too long as I have a feeling this type of land will get rarer and more expensive over the years. I only really want like 40 acres, I'd even settle for 1 acre if it's lake front. But 100+ for a good price, why not. Would be cool to build trails and stuff and have lot of toys like ATVs and skidoos to play with, and not need insurance and all that crap since I'd keep it on my land.

If I could find 300 acres for $75k, I would write a check tomorrow. $75k Canadian is like $57k USD. I would just buy it for the heck of it and to say I own 300 acres.

You live in the middle of fuckin nowhere. I'm all for living in a small town, but you're basically 8hrs from a Intl airport and in the winter - that must be a 3-day drive.

$1M Canadian - LOL

429 California St, Santa Clara, CA 95050 - See Est. Value, Schools & More

429 California St, Santa Clara, CA 95050 is a 1,325 sqft, 4 bed, 3 bath home sold in 2021. See the estimate, review home details, and search for homes nearby.

www.trulia.com

I've been looking at homes for sale online the past couple of weeks. $1 million in north metro Atlanta will still buy you huge ass house on 1 acre of land. $2 million plus will get you big mansion. There's such huge difference between a house slightly under a million dollars to house in the $1.5 million range. That extra $1/2 million makes such a difference in the quality of the house you can get.

If I had to pay $1.5 million for that shack in California, I would just move out of the state. That's ridiculous.

 

[shortylickens]

300 acres is insane. For that kind of bargain I think I could probably just live in a Winnebago until I got a house built. And it wouldn't need to be large. Just a bachelor pad. 1 bed, a single 3/4 bath, kitchen and laundry room. Actually I would need a decent workshop/storage area.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah it's a crazy deal. Right now I can afford up to 60k. The more I wait the more I can afford, so I hope I get another opportunity like that again. I have a line of equity line of credit so basically the more I pay off the house the more the line of credit has. My truck set me back though, that's eating up 14k.

If I buy this land I basically won't be able to afford to build anything for a while, but it would be more a place to go camping anyway, I would build it up slowly, until I can get it to a point that I can live there, then sell the house eventually. Basically a retirement plan. These places are like an hour or more from town so not like I could live there and keep my job so I'd want to come up with another source of income. I have a few ideas for that I need to start on.

 

[sdifox]

I've been trying to find off grid land lately and sometimes I find myself looking at the houses too for fun. It's fun to see what is the cheapest house in my area, or the most expensive. This is most expensive in my city right now:

Check out this listing

360 Roche AVE, Timmins, Ontario P4N5Z6

www.realtor.ca

1 Million And 14k taxes.

It's a nice house, but that's just nuts. The taxes would be the real killer. The mortgage eventually gets paid off, but taxes are forever. You can't retire in a house like that.

I felt like a baller when I sorted by highest price though.

A pool in Timmins? More like an outdoor rink.

 

[zinfamous]

I've been trying to find off grid land lately and sometimes I find myself looking at the houses too for fun. It's fun to see what is the cheapest house in my area, or the most expensive. This is most expensive in my city right now:

Check out this listing

360 Roche AVE, Timmins, Ontario P4N5Z6

www.realtor.ca

1 Million And 14k taxes.

It's a nice house, but that's just nuts. The taxes would be the real killer. The mortgage eventually gets paid off, but taxes are forever. You can't retire in a house like that.

I felt like a baller when I sorted by highest price though.

That would be ~ $4 million Freedom Dollars around here.