Moving Home (Charleston, Huntington, Hurricane: for sale, real estate, homes)

[Ronnie15]

We are looking to relocate back to the Hurricane, Charleston or Huntington area. Want to purchase a "fixer-upper" - cash sale - 20K or less. Realtors have offered little assistance - guiding more to the more expensive homes - any leads?

[tbailey1138]

For $20,000 your options will be VERY limited but I'm sure you can find something in the area. We've been happy with REALTOR.com - Real Estate Listings & Homes For Sale in the past to find what we are looking for and then we contact a realtor to look at the properties that seem to best suit us. Hope this helps and we'd love to have you in the Huntington area. Let me know if I can help in any other way.
Tim

[NOVAmtneer82]

I agree with tbailey, even though from a national perspective real estate prices in the Charleston/Huntington area are VERY cheap, finding something for $20K will be a stretch. I grew up in Charleston and have long thought about investing in real estate there myself, at least before the real estate crash. The I-64 corridor isn't where I would look, the only places you can likely find homes for in that range would be the economically depressed towns of the Upper Kanawha Valley (Dupont, Rand, Marmet, Belle, etc.) you can also guarantee little/no return on your investment because demand is practically non existant.

[snowshoemtnman]

I would put the $20K down and maybe look at something in the $40K range.