Get off your ass and get 50+ full time jobs you lazy fucks!
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And stop earning avocados.
Stop eating avocados. Start eating landlords.
Tough to stomach at first, but very good for you and the community.
If I keep paying the current $1200 a month to my landlord it'll eventually trickle down to me. No doubt!
Then with that revenue, I'll buy my first house!
In reality, I'm almost 28 and I have no delusions about home ownership. Just like retirement!
Only 1200 a month?
God I wish.
That’s the going rate for renting a room in someone’s house in my neck of the woods.
That’s garage money in my area. As in, $1200 gets you a somewhat converted garage, possibly without permits, and there’s garage door might be from the 70s and falling apart.
Broseph they've been raising my rate since I moved in several years ago. My rate used to be $925. My brother rented a studio near my area for $1200 at that time, I have a 2 bed 1 bath unit with plenty of space. The shitty thing is that I'm more or less trapped here. I appreciate deeply I haven't been priced out of my home, but there's nowhere to go. And believe me, I want out of here. I guess at least I'm grateful there's some agencies not entirely committed to totally fucking their clients.
I'm grateful to have a stable roof over me these past years, especially considering my past, but I recognize I may be in a more favorable area in general in regards to rent prices. Shit's rough. I wish you the best. But right now this is taking up near 35% of my income. I'd rather have the two floors plus basement even if the place is falling apart compared to having a studio somewhere. And they'd make me pay to apply and have to do a credit check. All they did here was confirm I had an income. I consider myself lucky now, though I was sour in the past.
My only hope of home ownership around here is waiting for my parents to die and inheriting one. That said, I keep telling them to sell all their shit, move somewhere cheaper, and retire for fuck's sake, so we'll see how that pans out.
Zillow is a part of the problem. With all the data collected and only a few companies, prices are conveniently increasing at extreme rates. It is not just cities; land and rural areas are increasing at high rates.
The real issue is the commodification of housing. Houses shouldn't make people money; they are supposed to be homes to live in.
This! We have the means to provide housing for everyone but don't because, fuck you thats why.
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Speaking of which, zillow's stupid "zestimate" is worthless. Any assclown can put their house up for way too high a price and the zestimate will automatically jump up to match.
Apparently the value is whatever the seller says it is, even if the home has been on the market for over a year (either continuously or repeatedly taken off and put on, I guess to reset the time on market).
Guess it's a nonstarter.
* curb your enthusiasm theme plays *
A starter home?! This home is a finisher home! A shelterer of gods! The GOLDEN GOD!
I am untethered, and my rage knows no bounds!
You rang?
This is the inevitable result of infinite growth. You aren't getting a home in world class locations without being at the very top yourself. Sure other people lucked into the right place and the right time. Go buy lottery tickets. Or set down in location that is more affordable. With any luck you'll be a multimillionaire when you're elderly too. And the kids of the year 2060 will hate you for the dastardly plot you schemed up with your friends to ruin everything.
We're all part of the rat race that is fucking us over. Nobody wants to flinch. So we continue to eat each other alive.
This.....is hard to believe. I've been looking around non-major US cities, and even some major cities, and the starter homes are around 200-500k.
That's still fucked for a starter home but a million?????? That's the average home price in Honolulu and NYC lol.
i was going to say its avg in the west coast blue area. 200-500k is "cheap"
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"Why do we have so many homeless?"
Well... define starter home. I got a starter for about half that in LA but I have a shared wall townhome. Not great, but if we're talking no shared walls and a yard, ya I can see that costing more... Except I also saw those for about this price, only with like... 600sq ft? Pick you battles, but those aren't a million even in the city.
Now, maybe the 200 cities are specific neighborhoods, like how Santa Monica isn't technically Los Angeles since it's got it's own city government. Same with Beverly Hills, Bel Air, etc. You sure as hell ain't getting a place for 1 mil there, even if it's a small "starter home."
All of your question are answered right at the beginning of the article:
"Zillow defines “cities” as distinct housing markets, which can include large suburbs, towns or boroughs within major metro areas. “Starter homes” are defined as properties in the bottom third of home values within a given market. That means these aren’t luxury listings — they’re the least expensive homes available in each city."
Gotcha. So yes, it's misleading headline, mostly for the first part since you can probably pull up 200 "cities" where you'd be nuts to find your first home. You aren't getting your first home in Malibu, that's just silly.
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