[QUOTE=Junebug]I live in the Bay Area, and a 3 bedroom/2 bathroom 2,100 square feet home can list at 700,000 and close at 850,000, depending on the area, and sometimes upwards of a million.
This makes it virtually impossible to buy a house unless you're willing to starve for the next 10 years.
My hubby is from SF proper and when his dad bought their house 25 years ago, he paid 138K for 4 beds 3 bath 3 stories and now it's worth $1.3 million!!!!!!!!! Crazy
We live in NYC now and it's impossible. An apt that you can actually live in with room to grow is about $1 million. Impossible. What we are doing is renting our apt and will buy a house in Woodstock next summer huge, 4 beds, acreage, etc... for probably less than $200K |