Fuck your property values. I want to puke.


I paid $140k for a 3 bedroom 2 bath (1500sq ft, crawls space) that has been extremely well maintained 5 months ago. It's on just over an acre and has a 1250sq ft 3 car garage with a man cave/apartment with a full bath. I'm 100yds outside the city limit and under 1 mile from the shopping/dining district. If you look at some cost of living calculators the property values are still horribly skewed on the left coast. I'd need to make $140k/year to have the same standard of living in the area surrounding LA but I still wouldn't be able to afford the property I live on. I'm very happy where I'm at haha.


Good luck with the fixer upper. I've bought 2. 1 is being rented and the other is for sale. Both were Fannie Mae properties. As an electrician you should have the skills you need to take car of everything outside of major carpentry.

i make good money here + the side jobs/racing stuff and my wife is a nurse and makes bank+ over time is killer


yeah, shit out here is insane, you cant buy anything for less than like 300k any where near here


im going to build a big steal building shop on it, and the concrete alone is insane..... good thing i have a friend with a paving and grading business thats going to poor it a little at a time with extra stuff

80X40 im thinking, maybe 80x50 i want to be able to drive the trailers in and leave them hooked up + put everything in the same shop and not have to leave shit outside

You are going to hate a slab that big that is done a little at a time. To do it right each pour will need an expansion joint or it will crack. You will end up with a patchwork quilt for a floor. I'd go 5" thick with rebar in the areas that will see a lot of weight. Standard 4" on the rest. Pre measure for your lift(s) and do a 6" pier with rebar and place your studs for the lift bases. That will be much stronger after the fact. Epoxy coat the whole thing once it is cured before you move anything in it. That saves a lot of time on cleaning and prep work.

my buddys dad owns ACC,the place thats doing it, and hes doing all the rebar at cost and i may just pay him to do the whole deal since im getting it at a deep discount anyway


and yeah i know about the stuff for the lifts, and coating it. ill probably just get it poured 6inch thick the whole way because thats what code is here, and even tho im not in city limits, when they see the size of the building i bet im going to have people poking their noses out here, so im going to do everything up to code anyway







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This post was edited by KoJ on Apr 14 2015 10:16am

Your still in the flower business? I was being sarcastic haha.
That's quite the shop.
Steel is the way to go cost wise for sure half the cost of framing and sheathing one. I priced them out before out of curiosity, the slab is the big cost.
I just want a 40x40ish.

yep, im looking at used buildings, so it will depend on what i can find really.


and yes still working for the floral wholesale lol

Jesus... i'm assuming your price are similar, or high then how New Jersey was
How many square feet is this?


My parents house here in Indiana was 300k, and it has 4 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, attached 2 car garage. Its over 7000 sq feet
Same house in New Jersey would have been easily 750k+
Not to mention the property taxes, they used to pay over 10k a year in property tax in NJ. They pay a fraction of that here

The house?

it is 3340 square feet

Outside of the house now, have a realtor coming to let us in. Pics coming in a bit if I like it enough.

Completely forgot to take pics.. The house is move in ready... All it really needs is carpet in the master bedroom, new siding, paint and lighting upgrade.. Everything else in the house is in beautiful condition... Has a patio right on the master bedroom.

Going back this weekend, ill take pics.