Tri-Cities growing like crazy

[willyslover]

a ton of these folks moving [myself included] are just damn tired of the state taxes and liberal politics in our states ...



yes there are better prices in small comunities and ruralville but as said before they are skyrocketing also. . the good news bad news is the comunities are receiving the much higher property tax value of the resold homes that most buyers don't think of as they look at the old tax number on the listing LOL



the rural prices are going much higher . . I'll be selling my home for more than 4 times what I paid for it cause the city folks are looking for their slice of heaven and I have it LOL . . I will be getting out of this damn state as quick as I can and yes I'll be driving up the price where I buy 'cause I'll be spending more than I sell for here, but what I get for the money will be outstanding. . and my retirement place.

in California the new buyers are driving in some cases 3 hrs. one way to work just to be able to buy a home. . it's nuts I know. . the central valley has been the receipent of most of the growth and Liberal politics with it... farmers are selling out prime growing land for home projects and we will be paying for it dearly in years to come as the central valley is THE farm area of the world...

where will it all end . . only time will tell but you can bet your sweet butt I'll be very rural and have plenty of land around me to be in good shape.

 

[Andy Perreault]

Originally posted by willyslover

. . the central valley has been the receipent of most of the growth and Liberal politics with it... farmers are selling out prime growing land for home projects and we will be paying for it dearly in years to come as the central valley is THE farm area of the world...

That just makes me sick when I drive between Seattle and L. A. Pretty soon it will be nothing but housing tracts ("master planned communities") and mini-malls from the base of the Grapevine to the base of the Lake Shasta dam! There ought to be a law against destroying farmland, but it's all about $$$ now and screw the future. Once it's gone, it's gone for good.

Andy

 

[CFAR]

willyslover

Wish I could go with you, but I can trace my California roots to before the gold rush. My mom still lives on the old homestead, it is home, its where I grew up. The old one room cabin that has been added onto for two or three generations is still the main house. What do you do!! (besides buy more ammo)



We need another group of Bear Flaggers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[thejeepdude]

All I can say is I totally lucked out when I bought my house in 2000. I couldn't afford to live here now if I hadn't. I found 1. 3 acre in Roseville/Granite Bay with an old 1300sf ranch built in 1961. I got into it for about $200K after remodeling. My neighbor just sold his 2000sf house and ~1. 5 acre for $700K. JEEZ. Granted, his house is nicer than mine, but I look at it this way... I coulda spent my $200K on a nice new house in a tract, or get this old POS with no garage and remodel as I can afford it. It's a lot easier to add onto the house than the land!!! I plan to add on to it and live here until I just can't stand the congestion any more (and it's 5x as bad in the last 2 years). By then, if these crazy trends continue, I should have about 500K in equity in less than 10 years... then I can buy a bunch of those $2000 acres in South Dakota and just relax for a few dozen years

 

[QRTRHRS]

The area I live in and the area I work out of are only 30 miles apart but used to be like night and day due to one big hill (for this area) that gets ugly come winter. Since 911, the area I work out of has become overrun with people wanting to escape NY and NJ. The implication of this as I see it is that mankind is the predator suppreme plus the biggest polluter going.



What does scare me is that when after my wife and I bought our farm six years ago, the "locals" as we met them would comment on how we paid too much money. Mind you, we have done a bit of work but our property is considered to be worth double what we paid.



The change was further driven home one day as I stopped by the local "beauty salon" to schedule a haircut. While I was asking my "cutter" how his horses were doing, this gal burst into the shop and states, "Can you cut my hair the way I want it cut"? "I am new in the area". "I hate to have to go to NY (100+ miles) to have it cut. " My friend set up a consaltation time for her and away she went. We looked at each other and chuckled. Kind of makes me glad that our winters pretty much "bite" and that on occasion, the grid goes down.

 

[CFast]

well there must be somewhere in this USA that people are moving from. Some towns must be losing populations, right? Hopefully the big one will hit LA and San Fran and level them. That way, less people will move to the Valley.

 

[thejeepdude]

Originally posted by CFast

well there must be somewhere in this USA that people are moving from. Some towns must be losing populations, right? Hopefully the big one will hit LA and San Fran and level them. That way, less people will move to the Valley.

Well, no they don't lose populations... you see, people do this thing... it's like rabits do but not quite as fast... multiply. That's why I'm thinking of buying another house as an investment even if I'm getting 1/4 as much for my money this time around... because even if the bottom falls out of the housing market, there will always be MORE people than there is houses in the long run... and things will always go up again. Name one place in the US where someone bought a house "for too much money" anytime over 10 years ago and it isn't worth more than double what it was. Now if I could only figure out how to afford to buy about 10 houses...