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AD says

I guess the county sets restrictions on minimum square footage per lot.

Damn counties.

AD says

Need to figure out how to sell $250,000 3 bedroom/2 bath/1500 square foot single family detached starter homes at a profit without any subsidies.

Do the following and build a separate garage.

AD says

I rather be in Virginia like west of Front Royal or southwest of Winchester or even in eastern West Virginia if I am going to live like that

Me too, Blue Ridge or Ozarks... but not possible with currrent situation.

I'm thinking the turn of the panhandle would be doable though. Deals are starting to open up for fixer uppers on several acres with spring or lake side.

Not doing shit for at least a year, in any case, I ain't paying a lot for that muffler Ticky Tack Shack.

AmericanKulak says

Blue Ridge or Ozarks

Same here! Ozarks are like the Blue Ridge without the drawl. I am searching waterfront property on Table Rock Lake.

HeadSet says

AD says

Need to figure out how to sell $250,000 3 bedroom/2 bath/1500 square foot single family detached starter homes at a profit without any subsidies.

Do the following and build a separate garage.

That bad boy is a trailer my friend. Even with land that costs the builder $100k all in. Basically if you have dignity, you'd never live in that thing.

WookieMan says

HeadSet says

AD says

Need to figure out how to sell $250,000 3 bedroom/2 bath/1500 square foot single family detached starter homes at a profit without any subsidies.

Do the following and build a separate garage.

That bad boy is a trailer my friend. Even with land that costs the builder $100k all in. Basically if you have dignity, you'd never live in that thing.

Yep, there are fixed costs for the developer like land acquisition, impact fees (electric utility line, storm water, etc), and permit fees.

A builder friend told me it likely cost $85,000 for the developer to build our 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath, 2 car garage townhome about 2 miles from the white sands and emerald water beaches; we paid $187,000 in summer 2016. So they doubled their investment likely over 5 years (bought land in 2011, etc).

I rather live with my people (in a trailer on Joan Avenue or anywhere else on the barrier island of Panama City Beach) then in some uppity white liberal village (with an optimized amount or mix of Asian tiger moms).

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WookieMan says

That bad boy is a trailer my friend.

Oh, I know, and I am very familiar with trailers. My dad is from an Appalachian style background so I have many cousins that are or have lived in trailers. I also had a friend in Wyoming who had a trailer and even one Air Force captain that chose to live that way. I would never prefer a trailer to a built house, but these trailers I have been in are quite nice. They look the same inside as other modest single-story homes, with a similar layout kitchen, bath and bedrooms. You just do not get an attic or basement. The people that get these trailers do so because they do not want to overspend on a house. One of my cousin's daughter works as a manager at a rural small town Dollar Store. She was able to buy an acre of land and put a trailer on it. Not sure how long her mortgage is, but the others with trailers own them outright. They live where they want to live and are able to afford boats and have the free time to go fishing. They also have nice decks and outbuildings.

AD says

I rather live with my people (in a trailer on Joan Avenue or anywhere else on the barrier island of Panama City Beach) then in some uppity white liberal village (with an optimized amount or mix of Asian tiger moms).

Yes.

The attitude towards trailers is yet another thing that keeps prices elevated. How are people supposed to combat high home prices? Through government? Keep bitching about high property taxes. LOL.

GNL says

The attitude towards trailers is yet another thing that keeps prices elevated.

I think there is a manufactured homes facility in Panama City along with other major factories and manufacturing job sites like Trane HVAC, Eastern Shipyard, Berg Pipe, Oceaneering, a new electrical transformer and electrical equipment manufacturer at the local airport industrial district, an industrial washing machine and dryer manufacturing facility at the beach industrial district, etc

Its not just about Tyndall AFB, Navsta Panama City, and tourism in Panama City metro area.

And the city is allowing them as these homes look a lot better : https://www.mypanhandle.com/news/manufactured-homes-allowed-in-panama-city/

ROLL TIDE

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zzyzzx says

As long as they can sell more profitable luxury houses, they have no incentive to build affordable housing.

The desire in a big home is real estate brainwashing and might be mostly an American phenomenba.

When rates actually went up the following day to 6.15% after the Fed’s announcement, there was lots of splainin’ to do. Although rates would settle at 6.06% on Friday night, the cracks in the narrative had been widening since late May when mortgage rates started their move down. Every realtor, broker, housing industry publication has made the innuendo or explicit case that when “rates” go down everyone was going to be fine, and the housing engine would restart. Additionally, if you ask one of these industry insiders about mortgage rates, they refer to the latest news from the Fed. No matter how many times I have pounded the table that the Fed does not control mortgage rates, the bond market does, those in the industry failed either to grasp or overtly acknowledge this fact. Do the Fed’s actions have an impact? Sure, but the bond market had already front-run the move with large drops in August when the Yen Carry Trade started to unwind. The confusion out there has gotten so bad that Jerome Powell himself had to state explicitly from the podium that “he can’t really speak to mortgage rates.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/m3melody/p/wait-what

He could control mortgage rates if he wanted to by simply buying a trillion or so MBS.

He's not desperate yet because the Federal government and corporations are expanding the amount of bonds at a reasonable rate.

HeadSet says

I would never prefer a trailer to a built house, but these trailers I have been in are quite nice. They look the same inside as other modest single-story homes, with a similar layout kitchen, bath and bedrooms. You just do not get an attic or basement.

You described an Eichler, lol.

HeadSet says

She was able to buy an acre of land and put a trailer on it.

And it gets a pink slip from the DMV so is not counted as a perm improvement on the property tax assessments. Need to pay more for the loan on them though.

You can have them added as a property improvement, tho. Involves an affidavit that you won't move it off the property and you surrender the pink slip to the property tax authority. Ppl only do that to get better financing for the trailer.

Eric Holder says

You described an Eichler, lol.

Eichlers can have basements/attics tho. Not common, but possible.

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

Eric Holder says

You described an Eichler, lol.

Eichlers can have basements/attics tho. Not common, but possible.

I thought they weren't supposed to have the former by definition and the latter are add-ons. There are some Eichlers in Bay Area with added 2nd stories, attics and such, but I never heard of basements in these. The whole "slab-on-grade foundation" thing was pioneered (or put into wide use) by Eichler, no?

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

And it gets a pink slip from the DMV so is not counted as a perm improvement on the property tax assessments.

I may have been using the term "trailer" wrong. These homes I am talking about are called "off frame" where two halves are brought to a site and assembled on a foundation. The roof is normal asphalt shingle. That example photo in my above post is one of those off frames.

HeadSet says

The roof is normal asphalt shingle

I was up on the roof today cleaning the gutters to get ready for the wet season.

The 17 years old shingles look a bit frayed at the edges. Supposedly it's a 20 year roof. Maybe we can eek out year 21. Time to start setting aside some money for this inevitability now. Because homie don't borrow.

B.A.C.A.H. says

Because homie don't borrow.

Same here. The only time I borrowed was for my first car and my first house. Paid cash for all cars and residence homes since. I did borrow to biy rental houses, but that is a business and not personal consumption.

HeadSet says

B.A.C.A.H. says

Because homie don't borrow.

Same here. The only time I borrowed was for my first car and my first house. Paid cash for all cars and residence homes since. I did borrow to biy rental houses, but that is a business and not personal consumption.

Who does the note cite as the party who will pay? You or the “business” that is a Corp? Think about risk and what that looks like if people stop paying your mortgage.