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That's why if Northstar wants to live in a cooler climate and in the Northeast, I'd highly recommend PA. It's the Northeast for Beginners, basically. Sticker shock isn't much down here for people like us (unless you're a country bumpkin from the Marcellus Shale region), though for a Southerner it probably is.
No, I don't plan on moving to the NE - never have, unless upstate NY counts. Since I don't work a regular job (I'm self-employed), there's no reason for me to live in an expensive area. Atlanta is cheap for a big metro, but the climate really sucks (not to mention the traffic), which is why I want to move. I was looking at central or western NY state, but ever since I visited upper Michigan, I've got my sights set on that currently. Very remote, but the climate is a dream and the cost of buying real estate is incredibly low - and the people are awesome to boot.
So what's the deal with "offers in excess of XXX XXX"? Here, a price is listed, and people typically offer 3-5% lower than that, or even 10% less (called "lowballing"). If the sellers are tightwads, they can reject those offers, but then the house will sit and sit and sit, and then they have to cut the asking price down and hope that someone come in with any sort of reasonable offer...lol. Although, at one time, during the heyday of the great housing bubble in the mid 2000's, people did get into bidding wars, but you don't see that happening these days, not around here anyways...lol.
Yeah usually people here also list a price & you put in a lower offer first, but sometimes & generally with more 'exclusive' type properties people will list as "Offers in excess of £XXXXX", which basically means they have a minimum that they want for it, but rather than listing that price they want people to offer an amount so they can see how much they can get for it... A bit silly really IMO.
Both of those homes looked decent, in safe neighborhoods and $300k isn't that really out of reach for the middle-class. And I thought the $339k wasn't bad for Manhattan; a decent deal for someone who works there and wants to live there and doesn't need anything fancy. It should hold its value. One can find much cheaper going into the boroughs in safe but unhip neighborhoods.
They're whooper swans! Breeding only in Finland and Sweden in Europe.
Right now I have five coins: one has the coat of arms of Finland, one a cloudberry bush, one the German eagle, one with a Greek ugly face and one other has an ugly face as well, apparently being the king of Belgium.
Ok, perhaps Elizabeth II is not not so bad compared to these.
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