Condo

[Redlinerider]

i read your mind on this post and bought one in december 06

you are right!! i would like a house but, i enjoyed looking at the landscapers this morning grooming the lawn

[John712]

Originally Posted by 67GTONUT

Got married 11yrs ago and bought an inexpensive condo(78K), 2bedroom, 900sqft, and 1 1/2 garage.
Condo is now worth $225K..... GTO and 919 are in the garage. I can ride or cruise all weekend, while others are mowing their lawns and doing other outside upkeep on thier home....

Even with a refi and owing more then what I paid for it...... I will have it paid off in 10 more years. I make an average income, and living in a condo lets me enjoy life as if I made what others do in the Northeast...

In short.... I would never own a home in the Northeast....

im constantly mowing my lawn, twice a week. and when it dont need mowing its raining. then comes the pool. BIG inground pool. needs a lot of up keep to it. im still redesigning my yard. im going on almost 2 months now. i should be done within the next month or so. now i got a leak in my roof. nothing major. but i caught it in time while i was in the attic, i heard drips hitting the floor. i quickly patched it up and put a big bucket where the drip was just in case. now i got to redo my roof sooner then what i wanted to do. but Lowes has the roof shingles i want. 30 year 3-tab shingle for $19.25. it adds up. im already 5G's into my yard alone.

roof will be about the same in material alone. im doing it all myself so im saving several G's. i already got the siding on order, a hook up from a friend who managed to save me about $6 a case. im not set up to do siding, but my uncle is and i just got to wait for him to come to Jersey from Florida for his help me vacation lol.

so yeah, if i had a condo i would have been saving all that money, putting it away and get a house built the way i like it, WARRANTY on most of the stuff to.

[yb929rr]

i was thinking about moving the family into a cardboard box. cheap maintenance and you get a new house everytime someone buys a home appliance.

[Brian78]

Originally Posted by John217

im constantly mowing my lawn, twice a week. and when it dont need mowing its raining. then comes the pool. BIG inground pool. needs a lot of up keep to it. im still redesigning my yard. im going on almost 2 months now. i should be done within the next month or so. now i got a leak in my roof. nothing major. but i caught it in time while i was in the attic, i heard drips hitting the floor. i quickly patched it up and put a big bucket where the drip was just in case. now i got to redo my roof sooner then what i wanted to do. but Lowes has the roof shingles i want. 30 year 3-tab shingle for $19.25. it adds up. im already 5G's into my yard alone.

roof will be about the same in material alone. im doing it all myself so im saving several G's. i already got the siding on order, a hook up from a friend who managed to save me about $6 a case. im not set up to do siding, but my uncle is and i just got to wait for him to come to Jersey from Florida for his help me vacation lol.

so yeah, if i had a condo i would have been saving all that money, putting it away and get a house built the way i like it, WARRANTY on most of the stuff to.

when is the pool party at cakes' house??

[SilverDragon]

Originally Posted by yb929rr

i was thinking about moving the family into a cardboard box. cheap maintenance and you get a new house everytime someone buys a home appliance.

sweeeeet!!! LOL

[njracer]

I say house all the way......bought my house 7yrs ago and I could now sell it for double what I paid.

However, I spent $35,000 doing the kitchen, $5000ish doing the main bathroom, $4000 on the shed, $4000 on the deck expansion and unknown amounts on the rest of the house. We still have a bunch to do and we might even go up and add 3 more rooms and 2 more bathrooms.

Still, at the end of the day, we are only paying a bit more than what I was paying for rent (about $600 more) and I have a house and a nice size yard.

njracer