At first I thought “I wonder what condition it was in” and then thought “who give a ## its not a Pokemon card.”
I keep all my contacts on dymo labels tucked in top loaders. For insurance cards that go in my wallet, I seal them up in sleeves. Outgoing checks go in Jumbo top loaders, as do any of my wife photography CD’s. All my receipts I keep organized in 9-pocket pages. Team bags are used quite often as well.
My home was for sale through Berkshire Hathoway. It may be manufactured, but hard to beat.
$36,500
4 bedroom, 2128 square foot, and 2.47 acre lot and the end of a private drive right outside of town.
Looked like garbage when I got it. Needed grading, new floor, AC, gutters, doors, mold, windows, lights, bathrooms, kitchen, you name it. Spent all last summer working on it. Learned a lot even if the ebay store sales dropped estimated $25k in that time period haha. Going that route definitely beats losing $500 a month in interest to a mortgage that won’t pay off for the next decade or more. I do occasionally think about running through the interior walls as they are 2 ft on center and the drywall is 1/2 inch.
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Wow…I built a 500sq foot guest house on my property and it cost double that:(
That must be a nice one!
Frugality is a virtue. Glad you shared this Rusty. It is nice seeing people making these types of decisions rather than blindly throwing money at real estate without analyzing a price point.
Oh and not sure if people realize that Berkshire Hathaway is just a reality company here. They sell homes to all incomes.
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I thought this might be relevant to the thread.
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He is absolutely one of us, and far beyond.
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I would have thought the land alone would be worth that amount.
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That was a big part of the purchase as well. I knew even if the home was not worth re-modeling there would be the option of building one - maybe even using the home there as a place for work or storage. My wife and I had already visited several stick built homes that were just so pricey. The original plan was to use what I bought this with(the $36,500) mostly as a down payment for other houses we were looking at. We were lucky enough to see this the first day it was on the market, and to be fully closed on the deal 24 days after.
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Crazy hearing that price as an Aussie, where average price of a house where I live is half a million bucks, Sydney is $1 million AVERAGE
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wow… I was driving through New Jersey once and my friend had an app giving the home prices, and I thought that was ridiculous. It was like $200k for what looked to be 12 ft wide brick homes smashed together
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The envy