Where can I get this in the triangle? (Lexington, Louisville: real estate, houses)

[bls5555]

I don't even know if people in Kentucky refer to it as that

Im referring to the area between Lexington, Louisville and Cincinnati.

What Im looking for is a nice small town where I can buy an old fixer upper house between $100,000 and $130,000. Now when I say fixer upper I don't mean completely trashed. I mean more of a house that just needs substantial updating.

Any ideas of where I could start my search?

[serate]

Eminence, Carrollton, Shelbyville to name a few. LaGrange, Crestood might have fixer uppers.

[tomocox]

The problem with Crestwood, LaGrange, and most of Oldham County is the average age of a home is very young compared to Shelby or Henry Counties. If employment and infrastructure such as high speed internet are not important, I would look at Milton, Bedford, and most of Henry County.

[censusdata]

Danville or Wilmore

[tomocox]

Originally Posted by censusdata

Danville or Wilmore

Are you taking something for your eyes? Danville and Wilmore are neither inside the Triangle. Close maybe, but neither have ever been considered Triangle towns.

[bls5555]

Originally Posted by tomocox

The problem with Crestwood, LaGrange, and most of Oldham County is the average age of a home is very young compared to Shelby or Henry Counties. If employment and infrastructure such as high speed internet are not important, I would look at Milton, Bedford, and most of Henry County.

High speed internet is very important as I am self employed and need it for business. Thanks for bringing that up as I didn't even think of it as an issue.

[bls5555]

Let me also state that inside that triangle isn't an absolute necessity. I would be traveling to Louisville, Cincy and Indianapolis quite a bit so it looked like a great location.

Im up for all suggestions on nice small towns. Thanks a bunch so far for the help.

[serate]

Originally Posted by tomocox

The problem with Crestwood, LaGrange, and most of Oldham County is the average age of a home is very young compared to Shelby or Henry Counties. If employment and infrastructure such as high speed internet are not important, I would look at Milton, Bedford, and most of Henry County.

That's why I said possibly LaGrange or Crestwood. Average doesn't mean there are no older fixer uppers. When we in Kentucky we lived in an awesome older house just outside of LaGrange.

[tomocox]

Originally Posted by bls5555

High speed internet is very important as I am self employed and need it for business. Thanks for bringing that up as I didn't even think of it as an issue.

You are welcome. Just practicing my profession.

Yes, I live in Crestwood and my office is in LaGrange. During the recent real estate boom, most of the available older "fixer-uppers" got fixed up, especially those in the price range suggested. This doesn't mean there aren't some excellent homes available, but my point was the number available. As a matter of fact, my wife and I are rehabbing a 1944 built Cape Cod style home into our LaGrange office.

Of course, with the limited criteria specified, we were speaking of the entire Triangle which I feel I probably know as well as any one person. Do I know the entire area like the back of my hand, of course not, but I feel that considering every locale, I would test out pretty well.

[serate]

Number available. I heard this in another thread, another state. All I can say is I'm glad we didn't limit ourselves to an area that had over 300+ houses available in our range, probably 150 if not more met most if not all of our criteria. The town we now live in had 3 houses in our range, all 3 met all of our criteria. Looking back, we got alot better house for the same money we were looking at spending elsewhere. We're looking at a transfer probably in the spring. [Unfortunately NOT back to Kentucky. ] I'm not going to base where we look for a house on the number available. Even if there's just a few the one you really want might be one of the few.

OT - does anywhere in Henry County have affordable high speed internet yet? We we left almost 2 years ago there weren't many affordable options. Where we're living now we pay $2 more for our DSL than we did in Henry County for the slowest dialup I've even used. Wait, no our free trial with AOL there was slower, but I tried it for a week and said shut it off.