AAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUGHHHHHHHHH

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I just stupidly went on Realtor.com again and they knocked the price of my house down. I know it's better to wait until I've got my credit built back up again (not that it was lawsuit-bad or bankruptcy-bad, but I took a hit due to the recession, a brief period of unemployment, and a long period of underemployment) and have been at my job longer

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[forgottensanity]

This might just be fueling the fire - but could you give a link to the house? I'd love to see what type of house-person you are.

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CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT I WILL FIND YOU AND THEN WHEN I DO I WILL SWAT YOOOOUUUU~

Here is my house. It was about $42-$43K, but got knocked down recently, probably because the bank is desperate to sell (I think it was a foreclosure).

[forgottensanity]

It's really cheap by Danish standards, but I couldn't really hazard a guess for what it would equal to in Denmark. It looks rather rundown, I don't know if that's normal in the US? Over here that type of house would be difficult to sell.

I took a glance at houses for sale in my neck of the wood. They're of course not entirely equal to each other, but a Danish house could easily cost 350,000 - converted to US dollars. Even if I lowered the price considerably, it would still cost a lot more over here.

Doesn't your house sound extremely cheap now? :-D

[shake_the_stars]

It's very cheap by US standards, too. It had been $42-$43K, which will buy you a modest house--probably nothing special, but better than a dump. I agree that it looks rundown; as I said, I think it was a foreclosure and the bank is probably taking the minimal amount of care so that it doesn't attract squatters or drug dealers (not that it's in the part of town where you could expect that kind of thing), but probably they're starting to get a little hinky about selling. I expect it'll be knocked down to $18K by the time I'm ready to move XD

I don't think my parents ever owned a house that was appraised at $350K; when lolmom refinanced last year, the house was appraised at $120K, which is still beyond the means of most Americans, and my childhood home is, I think, estimated at $313 now (it was probably much less in 1991 dollars).

(One beef: Zillow fucked up. The house where I grew up was NOT built in 1910--it was built in 1889, and actually predates the town where it is located.)

IT IS TTLY A BARGAIN~ :D