The Escapees co-op park in Pahrump was initially approved with the well and septic system designed for a mobile home park, then they revised the plans and got permission to make into an RV park with twice as many spaces by dividing each mobile home space in half. In 30 years we've had zero problems with the septic system.
Aye Don, house prices in the Bay Area are, or were, crazy. Our small (1600 SF) first CA house in San Jose (West Valley) - small house, is up for $2.5M. With all the recent hi tech layoffs it seems house prices may be on the way down.
Not really - it was West Valley, not East San Jose.
Perhaps this is one reason: The great American ‘homewashing’ is happening under our nosesBut that is acceptable .This topic could bring out many reasons as to why the rent and housing market is out of wack to the working class and forcing people to find alternative ways of getting out of the elements. But as you know that is not acceptable exchanges here which can also generate opposing points of view.
Our small townhome in a suburb of Columbus, OH has more than doubled in 8 years.
That's a nice increase even after we subtract the 16.32% for inflation since 2014. Is the population increasing there? Perhaps a lot of people from CA moving to Ohio?
I have no idea. We visit our townhome a couple of times a year so we can visit two families of kids and grandkids.
But you do now.
Had I been in the MidWest at the time, I would have visited a bank with a suitcase and asked for $12,000 in one dollar bills. Then I would have visited the apartment leasing office, opened the suitcase, on the desk, and asked "does this qualify?".
I have no idea, but our townhome community has largely retirees. What does human age have to do with house prices?
The average homebuyer is 45 years old, but about a quarter of buyers are in their 30s.
Which suburb, Tom- I used to live in Pickerington (far east, just S. of I-70). I have often thought that Columbus, if it were in a climate more like that in Denver, and had the mountains, would be a much better place to live than in the Denver Metro.
But isn’t this the park that doesn’t let you have your own washer in your rig? It may not be a problem with the septic, but that may be because they don’t let you use it as most people would.
No kidding. When I went to high school, we lived in Los Gatos. Nowadays I can't even afford to drive through there. In fact, the house my stepmother bought for under $20k in like '61 is now going for
With normal inflation, the 20K$ then in 1961 will be $183,534.20 in 2022. Houses in CA did better than the inflation rate, as usual. One of the better investments.
Groveport, near 33, north of Canal Winchester, not far from Pickerington.
No, that's Park Sierra near Yosemite and it's one of the reasons I haven't bought into that park even though it's only 20 minutes from my sister and her family. Because of the terrain in the park (there's something like a 400 ft elevation change from one end to the other) they built it with numerous small septics and leach fields instead of having to use lift pumps to get to a central septic system and the small systems can't handle the flow from in rig washers. Their clubhouse and laundry room are on their own system. We have one large septic system so it doesn't matter if the wash water comes from the laundry room or a washer in the rig.
And this, in a nutshell, is why we need affordable housing.
