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Now you see why I have a hard time forking out $ for a house, and living in an apartment!!!:eek:

Richmond, VA
San Antonio, TX

My jobs pays fairly well, but I have a hard time buying when I'm not even sure I'm staying!

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Ric, a few of us will be in Richmond the weekend of Sept 9th for the Busch and Nextel races. We're staying downtown. It's a requirement we get together.:D

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Downtown is a blast...!!!
I'm definetly in!!!
I've got an extra bdrm if y'all are looking, not real close to downtown, but the rates are the best in town(and the sheet are clean-ish):D

Sept 9th...I think I can grow my mullet out by then. I'll get working on it right away!!!

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Our house is really old. Especially the front half. We think it was built in the 40's. We have kicked around moving but where we live doesn't care about our dogs. We are thinking about having a kid someday, but our house is kinda small. We have already added on a huge patio room that is about 400 spare foot (for our doggies).

So rather than move, my solution is to add a guest house next our own house. We want to make it look like a barn from the outside, but have room for all the stuff for the space we lack currently. Fortunatly we live on an acre.

For us, it's kinda hard to move since we keep putting so much work into the place we live.

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Just tear the whole thing down, and start from scratch!!! Best of both worlds!!!

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[quote=Bully13] Fortunatly we live on an acre.quote]


An acre, whats that:eek: . My lot is 25X100. Yea thats right, 2500 square feet. An acre is a whole fricken block:o

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We just might do that. Either way though, I'm goning to want my guesthouse/studio. I'm going to build that and then maybe live in that while they re-do the house.

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Sounds like a plan...
When's the house demolishing party!!!
Don't forget to save alot of the old timbers to use in the new house. It gives it a warm homely feeling knowing that part of the old house is still with you.

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in my locale, you could buy just short of a palace for the monthly cost of the H2

i guess there are pros and cons to locations of every kind. where you're paying +41%, you probably have a peachy selection of restaurants, this's, that's, and scenic places to scratch your truck.

where truck > big house, you probably have a spanking selection of chain restaurants and 1-6 hour drives to interesting truck-scratching salons

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So what is your locale???
I'm ready to buy me a palace!!!:D

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X2 :D

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I saw this, doesn't make sense unless you are living in the projects of SA. :(

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[quote=hmrlvr]
Damn. Wile our new lot is big for the area (12000 sq ft), it is pretty small for Denver suburbs. We had been looking at a smaller house on 2 acres at one point.

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Home ownership is the American dream. Good guidelines (not hard rules). Everybody should own at least one.

S.

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[quote=Adam in CO]I have a love/hate realtionship with our yard. I love the size and privacy, but I hate taking care of it.:mad:

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We have a teeny-tiny little yard now. It's mostly rocks and deck, to boot. I hate the whole watering and mowing business. Water is expensive here and I pay the neighbor kid for the little mowing. The new house is almost all xerascaping. Less grass than we have now on twice the land. Yay!

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It's all the $40k projects homes dropping it down a bit:D

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Move to New York:
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