Turns out the timeline was just too short lol. At least in MA.
It’s fucking insane.
Had a friend sell his house for 1.635m, wanted 1.655 but couldn’t get it because it didn’t have a master bath…
Imagine that? A house without a master bath went for 1.635… We laughed and he goes “Would you buy a house without a master bath for 1.6 million dollars”
“John, I wouldn’t buy a house for 1.6 million without a basketball court in the basement.”
House in Arlington goes up for 850k on a Thursday, by the next Tuesday is under contract for 980k. And that place was a “fixer upper” in that town…
Eastern MA has pretty high prices, and maybe it’s just here, but god damn man.
If you were to put my house in either of the two towns (without the land even) it would have been “worth” 2.5-3x what I paid for it, or if it was 30 miles further north about 75-80% of what I paid with the land.
People will pay the stupidest prices to live within the 495 belt in MA.
I was just talking about this with my boss. It is crazy how much people will pay for relatively small houses and small plots because of their location.
It depends on where you are of course, but around here you can get a lot of house (4+ bedrooms) and a sizable chunk of land 30-60 minutes outside of Baltimore for sub $500K. The same house would be 3x as much, but you’d be in the city (shutter).
45 minutes outside dahn town here. $200k for 2k square feet on 5 acres with no visible neighbors and a detached 4 car garage.
$500k for Baltimore… a quick perusal of loopnet shows a few buildings 6-12 units in B and C neighborhoods. $100k down payment and $24k/year PITI. Should cashflow pretty well.
Some days it winds me up tight enough to turn coal into diamonds with my butt cheeks.
But most days, it’s a good opportunity to leave work at work, and think about things. I put podcasts on my phone and listen to music a lot, but there are plenty of days where I keep the radio off and just talk through issues in my head and/or out loud.
Basically my daily commute as well … Not sure if yours is 2hrs total or one way … mine is about 45 mins one way … so 1.5 hrs … again not bad. Don’t really hit much traffic … I go through Providence which gets bad only if there’s an accident (so whenever it rains)
Monday - Thursday I average 1.5 hours in and 40mins to an hour home. Friday I’m 40 mins in, and 2 hours home lol. Depends on time of year. September- early November is the worst, other than summer time Friday afternoons. July and August are the best.
Best part of the 2007/8 meltdown? Less traffic, lol.
Morning & afternoon commute is full of people that have no business driving on a highway under any circumstance as it is. One fucking rain drop and I know to add at least 20min to my ride, at least.
Lucky for me with the new new gig I can work at home on my discretion … you can bet your ass if I see ONE snow flake fall, I’m staying in my pjs and working in my study with the fire going
Are you talking about MA? Because it does have a reputation for shitty drivers. I almost killed someone who tried cutting me off one time while I was driving through MA. I should add that I was driving a damn Humvee as part of a convoy. Where I’m from we’re known for tailgating.
At least once a year I drive by an accident where a car cut off a tractor trailer and was demolished because they dont’ understand the size of that vehicle prevents them from stopping fast enough to not, literally, kill them from behind.
I have clients that drive dumps, and they have had to make the choice of “likely kill this person who just cut me off” or “swerve and not kill them, but cause a 4-12 car pile up across 2 lanes”.
Massholes, we Massholes, earn that name in everything we do, including driving and posting on message boards, lol.
I’ve worked from home for 10 years. I could make a decent amount more if I got a job in Portland, but that would mean anywhere from 1.5 - 3 hours in my car every day. I’d hardly see my kids.
Project manager. It wasn’t created as a work-at-home position initially, but my company was sold and I and a handful of others in the area stayed on with our parent company. So we all work remotely. There’s a job posting site that only lists WAH positions (legit ones too, not the “earn money in your spare time!” BS) called Virtual Vocations. Costs around $12/month, I think.
When I was going to school up there I got into my suite mate’s car and I’m trying to reach for the seat belt. I ask him where the seat belt is and he says that his car doesn’t have them because he didn’t reinstall them when he put new seats in his car. He then proceeded to play Sammy Hagar’s I Can’t Drive 55.
The reason why he had to have work done on his car was because of a crash which he described to me. He starts out by saying he was just driving along when he hit a tree stump. I’m like, “a tree stump?” He says, “I know. I was thinking the same thing. What the hell’s a tree stump doing in the middle of a corn field.”
He crashed his car again and said to me, “That tree just came out of nowhere.”