For Real Men Only

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5 years from now... I look across the Vegas valley... and see a huge ghost town.

[Iggy]

Originally posted by cegerer
Under $350. One of the most desireable locations in the county. All brick, completely custom interior. There are advantages to living in Michigan. The photo doesn't show the entire lot either - it extends back quite a ways from the fence.

Of course, the helicopter view today would be completely white. Haven't been able to get the 911 out in 3 weeks ......

Nice house....but you must live out in the boonies.


Try looking at realtor.com for Grosse Pointe or Birmingham, Michigan. $300K gets you jack$hit.

(or you can look at Troy, Rochester, Bloomfield Hills, etc., etc.....you can get nice homes for decent prices, but you've got to live an hour from anything urban...)

[Isabo]

Also for real men

[dd74]

LOL! Isabo.

[MFAFF]

Fanastic....

[JavaBrewer]

Originally posted by tabs
Remember it's location, location, location...

****cula....La Cresta ....or Central Coast by Cambria are the places I'd seriously look at in CA.

Looks like you got your answer. Investing $600K for a single (owner occupy) LV home is insane - unless you plan to live there till you croak. If you don't mind a "cooler than LV summer" and "warmer than LV winter" look to Temecula - wineries, mountains, skiing, desert, shopping, and yes even the ocean is an easy 1 hour drive away. Sandwiched between two of the largest markets (LA and SD) you can't miss. Did I mention the golf? New homes are still selling in the $390K and then way, way, way up range. Of course considerations have to be taken if you commute daily to SD or LA, but work that into the deal with your employer - partial out of home, broadband, flexible hours, etc...

[dd74]

Why'd you move to Vegas anyway? I mean, aside from whatever taxes could be saved in LV, there's so much better-bang-for-the- buck real estate in other places throughout the US.

Hell, I'd move to Costa Rica if I had 600K to blow. I'd buy a whole town and have virgins set at my feet.

[MFAFF]

Finally dug up the courage to look at those 'Christopher Homes'



Now i have seen the bottom of the barrel and it ain't pretty.

Are these guys for real. If so luxury and taste come from a different dictionary to the one I use.

[MFAFF]

Finally dug up the courage to look at those 'Christopher Homes'



Now i have seen the bottom of the barrel and it ain't pretty.

Are these guys for real. If so luxury and taste come from a different dictionary to the one I use.

[tabs]

LV has 6000 people a month coming here, with no end in sight. CA might very well implode, lots of businesses are relocating to NV. The Dems have raped CA, virtually killed the Golden Goose. Lots of people love it here because there isn't any white stuff on the ground during the winter.

As far as style goes LV looks to LA for it's direction. As Detroit and Chicago looks to NYC. It is kind of vapid here.

Home design in CA etc goes through cycles in the 50's and 60's it was the Ranch style sprawling single story. In the 70's it was the CA Spanish/ Mexican with the Red tile Roofs, in the 80's and 90's it switched to a Italian/French Med look. Today it has gone to Spanish revival of the 20's, Med revival of the 20's...Wallace Nef.. Prairie School .. FL Wright.

I look at floor plan, when I buy a home. I personally like the Spanish revival of the 20's. Question I have to ask myself is will it age well, is the design timless or just trendy?

[surflvr911sc]

LV, the new LA, coming soon!

[cegerer]

Hardly the boonies, got every conceivable big box store and chain restaurant about 8-10 miles away. Most of the homes in the immediate vicinty are $500k+. I'm kinda slummin' it ..... I am in Detroit metro on business 3 days a week and am very familiar with the ridiculous real estate values down there. My house on a somewhat equivilant 2 acre lot (are there ANY 2 acre lots next to a ski resort and golf course there? doubtful) would be well over $1,000,000 down there!

[Jim Richards]

Curt, I shudder to think what your property would cost if it was located in the DC metro area, say in a 'burb such as McLean or Great Falls.

[tabs]

Hey where in Mihigan do U live...ahh maybe up around Van Dyke and 24 Mile road????

[cegerer]

Van Dyke and 24 mile????? That's cookie cutter plastic palace yuppie-vil man!!!!!! Go another 80-90 miles north. Hey, we got casinos here too now!!!!!!

[tabs]

Up towards Harbor City? ANyway 24th and Van Dyke is right near Decker....as in "I got bombed in the Decker bar!"

[cegerer]

Decker???????????? OK, that's it! You're not going to try to pin me with the Oklahoma City bombing! That's where Tim McVay and his cohorts practiced igniting fertilizer ....... besides, $350K there would likely buy the general store, the fillin station and all 50 double-wides .......

[Ian Morton]

Originally posted by tabs
There is an old saying that you can tell what a man is about by 3 things...His Shoes, His Wife, and His House.

Tabs,
OK, enough about houses, please tell us about your shoes and your wife.

[jpachard]

You guys want to hear crazy house prices, come to Boston. A house went up next to me on a 1/2 acre lot. Pref fab and put together so poorly I couldn't believe it. It sold for 600K 2600sf...Yikes...and unlike our friends in CA, we have to pay big $$$$ to heat houses out here...

[Moneyguy1]

Tabs..I got a lawn on my back yard. That is where most Tucsonans have their "green". The fronts in where we put the low maintenance landscape rock and cactus....Next time you are in the Tucson area, go up the mountains. You want green? And snow? Got it all in an 18 mile radius from my adobe hacienda.

Nice house in Michigan. But, I am a transplant from the great rustbelt. Won't go back unless it is a family emergency. Have had it with ice, snow, sleet, and the COLD!! I wouldn't trade my house out here for a 300k unit anywhere in the North. I can work outside year round.