How is the housing market now? (Dallas, West: cheap house, to live in, prices)

[BigDGeek]

Originally Posted by tonie972

Can you provide some examples of the "look cheaply-built and tacky" houses? Maybe something from Zillow near your place?

It sounds like TO ME that you can't afford a new house in the desired area so you've settled on a old house that has been renovated to be "moved in ready".
I wont be afraid that I can't afford a new house in a nice area but that doesn't mean I should condescend to people who prefers a new house.

LOL


I chose my neighborhood based on its location and my house itself; it was a buyer's market in 2009 and I could have chosen from various neighborhoods ranging from Frisco to Lakewood.


I chose a non-renovated 50s house in Richardson.


Call me poor all you want, I don't care.

[tonie972]

Originally Posted by BigDGeek

LOL


I chose my neighborhood based on its location and my house itself; it was a buyer's market in 2009 and I could have chosen from various neighborhoods ranging from Frisco to Lakewood.


I chose a non-renovated 50s house in Richardson.


Call me poor all you want, I don't care.

LOL.

You should go back and read your posts to see how silly you are.

I don't understand people who insist on new construction. I think more modern houses (at least around here) look cheaply-built and tacky.

I totally agree with you that YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND people who insist on new construction.

You're only focusing on the cheaply built and tacky but failed to expand your horizon.

[BigDGeek]

Originally Posted by tonie972

LOL.

You should go back and read your posts to see how silly you are.


I totally agree with you that YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND people who insist on new construction.

You're only focusing on the cheaply built and tacky but failed to expand your horizon.

So says you.


You're a stranger on the internet and therefore are nothing to me. I don't care what you think. You can continue to scream at a blank wall if you like.

[tonie972]

Originally Posted by BigDGeek

So says you.


You're a stranger on the internet and therefore are nothing to me. I don't care what you think. You can continue to scream at a blank wall if you like.

lol... I forgot CAP means you're yelling and that was not my intention. I just wanted to cap all that.

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by turf3

So 100 years ago the 80% or 90% of Americans who were farmers and repaired everything themselves were all "gifted" and now that special "giftedness" only resides in some special tiny fraction of people and everyone else just has to be helpless?

Gifted sure does not mean what it did when I grew up on the ranch.

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by Ralph_Kirk

Well, "brand shiny new" is what Dallas is all about.

Negative, Dallas proper is filled with twenties of thousands of homes built 40 and more years ago.

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by aggie972

Most people today specialize in non farming/non carpentry work, and are thus less skilled at it than their ancestors who did not work at offices on computers, but did spend their days growing their own food and repairing their own homes.

With respect, that's a dodge. Any adult who can't properly manipulate a few hand tools is shorting him or herself. I'm not asking millennials to work hand-crank-drills, wood rasps and hand planers and "two-man" saws but come on - a steel tape, screwdrivers, torpedo levels etc.

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by tonie972

Can you provide some examples of the "look cheaply-built and tacky" houses? Maybe something from Zillow near your place?

It sounds like TO ME that you can't afford a new house in the desired area so you've settled on a old house that has been renovated to be "moved in ready".
I wont be afraid that I can't afford a new house in a nice area but that doesn't mean I should condescend to people who prefers a new house.

That only works on low information people. Around here much of the more expensive homes are older - North Dallas, Preston Hollow, Park Cities, Lakewood, Westover Hills and many more.

[cordata]

Originally Posted by EDS_

Gifted sure does not mean what it did when I grew up on the ranch.

I think was like the term "touched" used to be ?

[TurtleCreek80]

Originally Posted by tonie972

I hope you realize that not everyone is gifted.

Most old house plans are not attractive and the insulation is bad, those two reasons alone are enough for me to steer away from old houses. Not including bad wire for electricity.

Most old homes (1950's) in my area have the same floor plan as the brand new homes. They've either been updated to be open floor plan, high ceilings, entertaining oriented or they're tear downs. My house is 60+ years old but my roof, HVAC, and tankless water heaters are all <5 years old and Kitchen, baths, windows are <10 years old. It's basically a new home but with the original beautiful hardwoods and some nice character features like the tile floor in the hall bath (that looks like it came out of a current magazine, FWIW). Plus, we get the benefit of 60+ year old trees

An "old home" doesn't literally mean OLD HOME.

As for insulation, ours is just fine. Because it's not actually old.