relocating to WI (Eau Claire, Spooner, Burnett: real estate, foreclosure, homes)

[JudithLynn]

Want information to purchase home in WI from $10,000.00 to $50,000.00 range. Looking for friends and people to share socializing with I am married 64 and spouse is 40. We like music, motorcycles, outdoors, learning, lots of interests.

[gallon]

Surprisingly, there are homes within that range. They are way upstate and in the upper peninsula. The economy there is depressed and appalachian like. Just off the top, from your two different threads, the first place that comes to mind is Marquette Michigan in the upper peninsula. Nice thriving bohemian college town, economical real estate, far from Ohio. If you are outgoing, you shouldn't have a problem integrating into any town.

[dmanlick]

Check out Burnett county, it is the NW part of the state, 1 1/2 hr to Minneapolis. It is a beautiful part of the state that has more water than land due the large number of lakes and rivers. Some of the towns you should look up are Danbury,Spooner,Webster. If you want a nice larger city that has little to no crime, close to lakes and on a huge river check out Eau Claire Wi. It is 1 hr ro Minneapolis.It has all the great shopping that you would find anywhere with price competition. There are homes that are going under foreclosure that are very nice that can be purchased for a fraction of the cost. Haselwander has a good site for looking at what is on the market for a large portion of NW WI.