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Old 01-31-2021, 3:34am   #1
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It's bitter sweet. Raised my girls here, very quiet neighborhood but its time to move on. We'll keep our mountain property here in Commifornia but wife and I are done with the city life, we'll buy a home in a different state.

Gonna stay with our oldest kid for a minute until we figure this all out.

Crazy thing is in '99 we paid $185K for it, It's listed at $750K. Today was the first showing and there was over 30 appointments. I'm fairly certain it'll go for north of 800K.

Lord I'm not looking forward to packing and moving all the stuff we've amassed over the years
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Yeh, neighbors down the road/on high side of swamp road, so not flooded in the 23 years I been here, building new home further south, and starting yard sales yesterday to offload tons of junk.....they in their 70's along with majority in this street.....they have a house full of crap, same as we do.....
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We are going to be in the same boat soon. I had this house built in 88 with a couple additions along the way. Same as you, raised my two girls here. It will be hard for me, but it is way too much house for us now, so yeah, time to downsize. Moving is going to be a major pain! Actually going to look at a piece of land this morning!

Good luck with the sale. Let the bidding wars begin!
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We have been looking for housing for about 4 months now. It seems a good house comes on the market and it is gone in a couple of hours. Leaning towards building a house. Found some land down in Kentucky but can't get the owners to respond about Perc testing and utility availability. Getting frustrated to say the least. We want to get out of the area before the dickhead across the street starts his shit of walking around with the pistol and stalking my wife again.
Of course the good ole boys won't do anything around here because Daddy knows people. The city is screwing with us now, losing our sewage bill twice, forgetting to send our tax bills and ignoring our requests to have our area patrolled by the police.
Yeah it is time to get the hell out of this inbreed piece of shit town. They are so stupid they elected a retired idiot who wasn't worth a shit as a worker and is worse as the mayor.
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We had another house for the last 22 years that we downsized into so we sold,threw out and gave most of our 25 years of stuff and furniture. Was not fun. Wife sold a lot on the facebook market place.
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Good luck with the house sale and moving. Perfect time to downsize and or get rid of stuff don't want or need.
We have a small house and a conex to store crap in, been weeding out stuff don't need for 10 years now. I purposely built a small house so couldn't move all the junk into it.
About to have another spring purge this time holiday stuff mainly.
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We sold our residence and cabin little over a year ago and built our final
ONE level house. Got over 2 1/2 times what we paid for it.
Congrats.
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Yeah, before it was showed yesterday, had to get up at 3:30am and load the weapons and ammo for the showing. Weapons weren't to bad, but my back still hurts from hauling the ammo. Damn, I didn't realize we had so much shit in the vault. I couldn't see out the back window of my truck after it was all loaded
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We sold our residence and cabin little over a year ago and built our final
ONE level house. Got over 2 1/2 times what we paid for it.
Congrats.
Ranch aka one level houses are the best and definitely came about from older folks.
Talked my inlaws into a one level 10 plus years ago as they had 3 levels.
Stairs suck...

I have 2 small steps into the house now and I'm raising the grade at another entrance so possibly zero steps then. Planning ahead.
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We almost built new a couple of years ago but after going through the planning process and mortgage appt., decided to stay put and just do some upgrades. A big part of deciding against it was the idea of having to deal with all the crap we’ve accumulated over the years!

Gonna have to do it at some point as my knees and feet are getting tired of stairs and my older dogs feel the same.

That said, I thought housing was in a bubble again back then but prices are much higher today. Not just materials, land prices have gone crazy out here.
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Raise the price!

Hope you get mega bucks!!!
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Ranch/single level home is the way to go.....my folks found that out the hard way.....laundry in basement, 4 large bedrooms up top, living/dining/kitchen/TV on main floor.....and 2 acres to mow...... Dad backed the rider mower through the fence.....lucky he not hurt badly.....after that hired a lawn mowing company......

I had a cape cod up north.....3 story and room addition, and concrete back yard with a 3 car garage in back.....wonderful party deck too......many a BBQ/beer party for some ten years......
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That is one helluva appreciation in 21 years. Things must be crazy around there.
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Good luck with the sale and finding a new place to live!
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That is one helluva appreciation in 21 years. Things must be crazy around there.
Same thing in the DC/Md. region......165k my old house sold in '97, joint valued at 650k a year ago, last time I checked.....
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It's bitter sweet. Raised my girls here, very quiet neighborhood but its time to move on. We'll keep our mountain property here in Commifornia but wife and I are done with the city life, we'll buy a home in a different state.

Gonna stay with our oldest kid for a minute until we figure this all out.

Crazy thing is in '99 we paid $185K for it, It's listed at $750K. Today was the first showing and there was over 30 appointments. I'm fairly certain it'll go for north of 800K.

Lord I'm not looking forward to packing and moving all the stuff we've amassed over the years
I just went through this with my parent's house which was stuffed with 4 generations of stuff.

Some advice if you want it:
1) if you touch something, make a decision on it immediately - pack it, throw it away or donate it.
2) don't get in the habit of saving stuff for family/others. It will drive you nuts tracking what goes to who. If you have stuff for family/friends, put it in 1 place, invite them over to get the stuff, if they don't show, toss it.
3) have a place for everything to go - packed stuff goes to place a, garbage to place b, donations to place c, etc
4) buy big 55 gallon trash bags, they're a lot more convenient than boxes
5) get a dumpster after you've accumulated enough to warrant one.

i have a lot more I could mention, but those are the big ones. Good luck
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oh, 1 more thing:

find an auction house locally to partner with to sell stuff that has value, like collectables, antiques etc. They will come get everything, clean it up, and take care of everything that needs to happen to sell it. They usually take a 25% cut of the proceeds.
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I just went through this with my parent's house which was stuffed with 4 generations of stuff.

Some advice if you want it:
1) if you touch something, make a decision on it immediately - pack it, throw it away or donate it.
2) don't get in the habit of saving stuff for family/others. It will drive you nuts tracking what goes to who. If you have stuff for family/friends, put it in 1 place, invite them over to get the stuff, if they don't show, toss it.
3) have a place for everything to go - packed stuff goes to place a, garbage to place b, donations to place c, etc
4) buy big 55 gallon trash bags, they're a lot more convenient than boxes
5) get a dumpster after you've accumulated enough to warrant one.

i have a lot more I could mention, but those are the big ones. Good luck
Timely advice. Thanks!
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are you selling too? good luck... it's not easy... took me 4 months to clean out my parents house, mostly on weekends.
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30 appointments the first day, you should do well. Good luck.
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