Bluefield leads nation in mortgage-free homes (Princeton, Bramwell: foreclosure, to rent, HOA)

[snorpus]

Looks like it wasn't a good weekend to be a Thanksgiving dinner guest, either...

Woman with machete chases Thanksgiving guest (Tampa Bay Online).

Man shoots, kills cousin at Thanksgiving dinner (Greensburg Tribune Review).

[AliceT]

Well that's just perfect. A Floridian tells a woman to get out of her house while holding a machete and a drunk Pennsylvanian engages a man with a gun into a fist fight.

And people say West Virginians are uneducated. Yeah, right.

[harborlady]

Originally Posted by vec101

Insane. Come on people, is saving $40 really worth taking someone's life? The majority of those people in line can consider themselves murderers.

Oh Vec it's so much worse than you imagine. They're doing CPR on the guy and shoppers are still salivating to get their HDTV for $798.

I'm embarrassed to admit where I'm from because it's changed into something so ugly since city folks wanted to 'live in the country'. Garbage came with them. I won't tolerate or adapt to sociopaths.

[Big_Al]

% of mortgage free households is a MISLEADING statistics. it isn't a sign of prosperity, it's s a sign of poverty.According to a recent study 81% of households with income above average have mortgages. The main reason is tax advantages. Low income families don't have this advantage and don't buy expensive houses. Many people in rural WV have land for generations, they don't pay to buy it, they just put a trailer there.
Such statistics published by press is just for sensation nothing else.
Last week I was overseas, the same time huntington was named 'the fattest town'. All news agencies around the world got sarcastic about "fat yankees". I had to defend my state! Also I had to explain who yankee really was

[harborlady]

Originally Posted by snorpus

Looks like it wasn't a good weekend to be a Thanksgiving dinner guest, either...

Woman with machete chases Thanksgiving guest (Tampa Bay Online).

Man shoots, kills cousin at Thanksgiving dinner (Greensburg Tribune Review).

Snorpus are you saying it's not normal to carve a turkey with a machete in Florida? I did try warning folks not to complain about the gravy.

[snorpus]

Don't know about Florida, HL, but around here it's considered unusual to even own a machete, much less use one to carve ol' Tom.

And it's definitely bad form to use one to chase away a guest.

[Dark Corner]

Originally Posted by Trombley

I'm not ignoring the information in this post....I obviously don't live in a bubble! The man selling the property has never lived there and the project is a total rehab. He's not trying to hide anything and we already know that we will have to do most of the work to make the place livable. The main thing I am concerned about is the black mold. However, any house can have this problem. My point is the price is cheap enough that we could rip the entire house out if desired and put another one up and consider our purchase to be a land buy. My husband is able to do all of the work.

Don't be discouraged by some of the comments, I have bought a few properties in and around Bluefield within the last 18 months and would not have any trouble getting my money back on any of them. (I also live in another state that is getting over crowded, snobby and down right expensive.) There are plenty of homes in the Bluefield area that are beyond repair and on the other hand there are plenty of homes that could be rehabbed with a little elbow grease. Take your time and make friends with some of the nice local folks and tell them what you are looking for.
I have spent a good bit of time in and around Bluefield in the last 18 months and have found the people more than courteous and willing to help. In my opinion the only way for property values in Bluefield to go is up, cause they certainly cant get much lower than what they are.

[harborlady]

Originally Posted by snorpus

Don't know about Florida, HL, but around here it's considered unusual to even own a machete, much less use one to carve ol' Tom.

And it's definitely bad form to use one to chase away a guest.

TY snorp I'll be sure to leave the machete wielding, rabid stampeding, taxing a tax ways in NY where they seem to prefer them.

I much prefer the heathen ways where men don't greet women by publicly touching themselves or wolf whistling. I'm supposed to be homesick but don't tell anyone I'm not, OK? Just our little secret on the internet.

[vec101]

That's why we keep saying all the bad things about WV, Bluefield, etc. - we don't want everyone heading to WV for their low cost living. They'll bring all their problems with them.

[harborlady]

Mold, lead paint, crumbling cinder block foundations, asbestos, sink holes, flood zones, abandoned mines, drugs, vagrants... what else? Heard the bear population is getting out of hand.