because they just can't process the prices.
Overland Park seems expensive to me, Missouri side Kansas City is pretty cheap.
Don't let the space bugs bite!
Kaylee ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gudanov - Apr 22, 2005 6:32:14 am PDT #8067 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Sparky1 - Apr 22, 2005 6:33:00 am PDT #8068 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
I don't think we're that bad yet.
We're special! (Goddess bless my rent controlled apartment, that I moved into less than 6 months before the city dropped rent control.)
sumi - Apr 22, 2005 6:34:37 am PDT #8069 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Happy Birthday Betsy!
ita -- congratulations on your cousin's achievement. (Seems weird to do it that way -- but you know what I mean.)
Hmmm, so last night I picked Project Trainwreck over er -- it looks like either way there was going to be squicky eyeball stuff. Although with PTW you're talking watching the fake squicky eyestuff being made rather than watching it and feeling it as if it is real.
Sparky1 - Apr 22, 2005 6:34:44 am PDT #8070 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
Isn't the Missouri side considered the "nicer" side of Kansas City? I admit, I'm sometimes confused where I am and if I've crossed the state line or not as we travel around there.
Topic!Cindy - Apr 22, 2005 6:35:37 am PDT #8071 of 10001
What is even happening?
You'd be really alarmed to see what "luxury condo" means around here.And then you've got condo fees on top of the mortgage. In (very) general terms, I don't think it is as good of an investment to mortgage to buy a condo to live in, as it is to mortgage to buy a single family home in which to live.
Nutty - Apr 22, 2005 6:38:21 am PDT #8072 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I don't think it is as good of an investment to mortgage to buy a condo to live in, as it is to mortgage to buy a single family home in which to live.
But, like, to buy a freestanding house I'd have to be shopping in Belchertown or Lakeville or New Hampshire. A condo is what you shop for when a house is really out of your price range.
Gudanov - Apr 22, 2005 6:38:54 am PDT #8073 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Johnson County, KS is considered the "nicest part" with pockets of the Missouri side on the same level. Wyandott County, KS isn't considered one of the "nicer" parts. Anything in Kansas City, Missouri proper is depressed because of all the school district problems. Then there's North of the River which is like a totally different city.
Fred Pete - Apr 22, 2005 6:40:09 am PDT #8074 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
In our development (20 miles away from DC), they're building condos that now start somewhere in the $200Ks.
Last summer, we checked out the single families in the development. They were starting at about $650K then.
Katie M - Apr 22, 2005 6:44:25 am PDT #8075 of 10001
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
I'm never going to own a house, am I?
Topic!Cindy - Apr 22, 2005 6:46:00 am PDT #8076 of 10001
What is even happening?
Oh absolutely, Nutty. I didn't mean to say otherwise. I was going straight back to Gus's assertion last night. He was saying it was financially smarter to rent and save, and buy outright (I think) than to mortgage. I dispute that where a house is concerned. I'm less sure that I would dispute it, where a condo is concerned--that is to say, if you did end up making out on the condo in the long run, I think it would still be less than you could make out on a single family home.
Condos are, I think, generally a little more sensitive to the market than houses are. I don't think investment is the reason to buy a home (house or condo) that you're going to occupy, either. It might be one of the reasons, depending on how you rank the intangibles.