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Old 01-27-2013, 08:39 AM
 
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That assumes you cannot find a good community AND a nice/modern home in MD. I have no dog in this fight anyway as I live in DC, but I think most people would find it difficult to find even a decent sized home in NOVA for $500K in a good school district and less than an hour commute to the city.
250 single family homes in just Alexandria, VA at < 500K. First one I hit was 2700 sq ft and only 5 years old.

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My only point is, these things are worth scratching a little deeper than the surface on. People just write stuff off without going too far......
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Old 01-27-2013, 05:05 PM
 
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250 single family homes in just Alexandria, VA at < 500K. First one I hit was 2700 sq ft and only 5 years old.

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My only point is, these things are worth scratching a little deeper than the surface on. People just write stuff off without going too far......
You didn't provide a link to this 5 year old house for less than 500k in Alexandria, but I can personally guarantee you that there is something terribly, horribly wrong with it. Maybe the schools around it are bad, maybe there's a giant gaping hole upstairs where the roof should be, maybe its backyard has a view of some sort of waste disposal site, but yeah, it's an illusion. We searched for over a year all over Nova and we viewed many, many homes that appeared to be great deals based on their ads... but were actually really terrible houses for bizarre, unforeseeable reasons. You can go farther out, maybe in Burke or even possibly West Springfield and find a house from the 1980s in good condition at that price.
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