I bought a new house! (my first house purchase!!) UPDATED, MOVE IN TIME

[RD]

It is a split-level, 4 bedroom, 3 bath, with attached 2 car garage, 200 ft of chain link fence for the backyard, a 24x30' detached garage that will have water/sewer hookups, a 22x24' concrete pad in front of the garage with its own entrance into the street.

The house will be built within 4 months.  Wife says I can occupy one section of the attached garage as well as my own detached garage! woo hoo, gotta love her!

Pics below are not of the house, but one that is exactly the same as the plans we picked out.

I am really excited to own, instead of rent for the last 10 years!!

Oh, and total cost for this item (hehe) $149,000

[TruckDriver]

  WoW! You couldn't build that for less than $200,000 if not more anywhere near me. Congrats!

[Silver R/T]

Congratulations. As I can see house prices are way down in your area. It would be double that for same house over here.

[Lostsheep_01]

Congratulations!  Looks like it's gonna be a beaut!

[dkn1997]

nice, that baby is 400k where I live, nice score.

[d72hemi]

That is awesome! I thought UT was cheep compaired to So Cal. I wish I had one like yours!

[RD]

thanks for all the compliments, I sure do appreciate it.

I guess I should have mentioned that the total square footage is around 1,750 if that helps with the layout.

[derailed]

congrats on the new pad . Hope all the construction goes smooth for you.

[4cruzin]

Sweet looking place!!  Nice job on the new pad!   

[Brock Samson]

I looked at a 960 sq. foot 1 bedroom + 1 small den condo last week,.. $ 560K.. and no that's not a typo...
looks good Race!

congrats man!

[moparguy01]

cool deal RD. more space for parts! too bad its gonna be such a pain in the butt to move all your stuff. 

[Old Moparz]

Congrats on the house.

Better get used to eating lots or rice & pasta the first year. 

[Shakey]

 

Building equity is a good thing!   

[chrisII]

wow ! my house is 100 years old with alot of updates and a 2 car garadge on a really small lot and would likely sell in that range, but im guessing that if home prices are that low that your avg wage in the area is also much lower than most places. house prices normaly seem tied to avg wages, but there are exceptions to this, cali comes to mind.
Congrats!!

[41husk]

congrats and two car garage as well sweet. only  need a couple more garages.

[BB1]

Congrats RD! 

The rest of you stay out of Kansas!  Gods country

[Nacho-RT74]

GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAT... this apparently looks to be a nice year to you with your graduation, job and new house.

[NYCMille]

Dude... that would be a $800 - $1 million dollar house on Long Island... way to go man.

[mikepmcs]

AWESOME!!! Congratulations!!!

I'm moving to kansas.

v/r
Mike

[Charger_Fan]

Congrats, Man!! You're not gonna know what to do with yourself with that much garage space, are ya?
I rented for 10 years too, I'm still pissed when I think about how much equity I flushed away.

Four months, huh? Good, that'll give you enough time to practice up on your signature...you'll need it.

[RD]

Thanks to all!  I am really excited. The house is in a small town of only 900 people (yeah I said 900, 923 as of the 2000 census to be exact).

This house built just 10 miles to the east in the county seat would have sold for 185,000 smackers.  It just so happens that the town in which I was raised, is now the town I will have my first house built in.

God has been good to my family and I.

Congrats RD! 

The rest of you stay out of Kansas!  Gods country

and, do what cudahob says!!!!

[firefighter3931]

Very Nice Jamey and welcome to home ownership !  The fruits of your hard work and studying are starting to pay off. 



Ron

[NHCharger]

Congrats   There's nothing like owning your own home.
As a contractor I have to ask. Are you going to be one of those pain in the a$$ homeowners that stops by the jobsite to inspect every day J/K (kind of)
There's two kinds of homeowners. 1.The ones that stop by every night after we have gone and make a list of which nails aren't fully pounded into the wood. 2. The ones that besides checking the house out at night stop by once a week in the morning with coffee and donuts for the crew and swing by around quitting time on Friday with a few 6 packs.  Guess which homeowners the crew goes out of their way for.

[RD]

Congrats   There's nothing like owning your own home.
As a contractor I have to ask. Are you going to be one of those pain in the a$$ homeowners that stops by the jobsite to inspect every day J/K (kind of)
There's two kinds of homeowners. 1.The ones that stop by every night after we have gone and make a list of which nails aren't fully pounded into the wood. 2. The ones that besides checking the house out at night stop by once a week in the morning with coffee and donuts for the crew and swing by around quitting time on Friday with a few 6 packs.  Guess which homeowners the crew goes out of their way for.

MAN!  that #2 is awesome advice!  I never would have thought of that, but now thanks to you, it will happen!  Thanks so much for the advice.

[Charger_Fan]

Congrats   There's nothing like owning your own home.
As a contractor I have to ask. Are you going to be one of those pain in the a$$ homeowners that stops by the jobsite to inspect every day J/K (kind of)
There's two kinds of homeowners. 1.The ones that stop by every night after we have gone and make a list of which nails aren't fully pounded into the wood. 2. The ones that besides checking the house out at night stop by once a week in the morning with coffee and donuts for the crew and swing by around quitting time on Friday with a few 6 packs.  Guess which homeowners the crew goes out of their way for.

MAN!  that #2 is awesome advice!  I never would have thought of that, but now thanks to you, it will happen!  Thanks so much for the advice.

That is a good idea. My wife bought the electricians pizza once, but that was about the extent of it. We mainly tried to stay out of their way & let 'em do their jobs. Whatever peeves we had (which weren't many), we went through the foreman about.
They even raised the garage door opening a foot (now 7' tall) when I decided it needed to be higher & didn't complain about it.