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kleinbl00 · 3512 days ago · link · · parent · post: NY Times calculator: better to rent or buy a house?
The 1100sf 2br we lived in down the hall sold two weeks ago. $490k with a $500/mo HOA. I'm pretty sure our complex is the cheapest place you can live on the west side. I knew it was time to get out when the semi-okay house up on the ridge, all 1800 sqft of it, sold for $1.6m. Just for shits'n'giggles I looked up what $1.6m got me in Bellingham, WA. Answer? A 5800sqft 9BR bed'n'breakfast on 45 acres with water rights and an i-shit-you-not T3 line to the house. Not gonna lie. If I had to find a house 'round here I'd be super-depressed. Made a visit on Sunday for a show; it was a nice place up in the Hills. As it turns out, it had sold two weeks previously for Eight. Million. Dollars.