MikeH
Well-Known Member
I'm not a city boy anymore! Have a proper house now and everything!You have a basement?! Ok Scrooge McDuck!
I'm not a city boy anymore! Have a proper house now and everything!You have a basement?! Ok Scrooge McDuck!
I mean, I live in the middle of nowhere, pay like $900 a month on my mortgage and have a basement and a room just to store records.So all I have to do is move to the middle of nowhere and I can have more space for records?
*takes notes furiously*
If not for rent control I’d probably be double your mortgage for a 500 sq ft apartment in Maine. As it stands I’m at about 1.5x. Which is why I love vinyl deals!I mean, I live in the middle of nowhere, pay like $900 a month on my mortgage and have a basement and a room just to store records.
Downside: it’s the Midwest.
I live in Tacoma, a city 200,000+ people, 30 minutes from Seattle, two hours from Portland and I have a 800 sq ft finished basement (and a spare bedroom) and I still struggle for record space.So all I have to do is move to the middle of nowhere and I can have more space for records?
*takes notes furiously*
Spare bedroom, eh? When am I moving in?I live in Tacoma, a city 200,000+ people, 30 minutes from Seattle, two hours from Portland and I have a 800 sq ft finished basement (and a spare bedroom) and I still struggle for record space.
Well, it’s now my primary record room/WFH office. The other spare bedroom my SO uses for her crafting projects. You’d have to live in the basement but don’t worry there is a second turntable, CRT TV hooked up to an original NES, ping pong table and mini fridge down there so you would be entertained, if a little chilly.Spare bedroom, eh? When am I moving in?
This reminds me, I need to go sign my lease renewal (with rent increase)…*sobs*
Damn didn’t know you lived in BuffaloJust out of a city center! haha. I'm about 30 min outside of NYC. but my mortgage is quite a bit more than @Corycm's haha.
Your finished basement is bigger than my SF apartment!I live in Tacoma, a city 200,000+ people, 30 minutes from Seattle, two hours from Portland and I have a 800 sq ft finished basement (and a spare bedroom) and I still struggle for record space.
It’s true, the homeless guy down the street from me has the biggest collection I’ve ever seen. Mostly odds and ends.the collection will grow to its largest possible size based on environment
Before COVID there were some affordable condos around Portland and even out in the boonies you could find homes under $250k. Then the pandemic hit and everyone from Boston, Philly and NYC moved up here with their WFH jobs and prices literally doubled. Throw in a thousand refugees/asylum seekers entering the rental market, as well as 1/5 homes in Maine being vacation rentals that sit vacant most of the year, and it’s just a god awful time to be anything but a home owner up here. I love it here but I’ve given up on settling here because it’s just too damn expensive.The market makes no sense right now. And I’m afraid the nonsense is only going to continue
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The market makes no sense right now. And I’m afraid the nonsense is only going to continue
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We got lucky with our house. Bought during the pandemic from a crazy bird lady who said the house spoke to her and it wanted us to live here. A lot of houses in our town went up for sale and I think we were the only people to pay below asking. One house down the road sold for $350k over asking. With the current interest rates we never would have been able to afford our house.Before COVID there were some affordable condos around Portland and even out in the boonies you could find homes under $250k. Then the pandemic hit and everyone from Boston, Philly and NYC moved up here with their WFH jobs and prices literally doubled. Throw in a thousand refugees/asylum seekers entering the rental market, as well as 1/5 homes in Maine being vacation rentals that sit vacant most of the year, and it’s just a god awful time to be anything but a home owner up here. I love it here but I’ve given up on settling here because it’s just too damn expensive.