If you've bought a home in the past 30 years, what did you pay for it?

That’s why she is under investigation.. She sucks- voters voted in weed, and she illegally stopped recreational sales…
No different from the rest

In my state in Australia I purchased my house for $350k Australian $ (about $250k USD)in 2016 and is now worth close to $800k (about $560k USD), more then doubled its value in 6 years.

Good, peaceful suburb. No issues where I live.

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$28,500 bought 29 years ago worth $130k or so now , but area has gone to shit like 1 dude said.,but it's 7 min from work an 10 min to parents who are in 70's so I can help them as they get older.

its really inflation.

assets always go up in price when the dollar gets devalued.

printing money is direct cause of this.

this is why shit houses on shit blocks with shit pay are asking for shit tons of shit cash.

every time they print money they steal from everyone.

your dollar has to spread to cover capitaless currency.
hence it weakens and assets soar in price.. not nessesarily value.

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You are right and wrong. Young families tend to put off having children or not have them until they have a roof over their heads.

This is why the assholes in charge are causing the housing prices to go through the roof because they KNOW this.

$430k in 2019 and it's worth about $550k today, Alberta.

I have you beat ... bought my home (for cash) while it was in foreclosure in 2011 for $65 K - last "professional estimate" $550K

Built a 3 bedroom house. Moved in 2006. Spent 150K. Still here. Worth about 500K now. we’re not moving anywhere. We got lucky. The community we live in became one of the more desirable areas around where I live. Very upper middle class. We’re rednecks and don’t fit in, lol.

i live in the berta too
the ballet dancer in ottawa thought it was good to print a shit load of capitaless cash.

assets go up while wages on the surface stay the same.

yet the dollar is actually devalued so the 20 bucks someone was making is now only 18 or less.

not only do they steal capital from your savings
they steal capital feom the wage earners.

the result, life long renters and many future generations of replenishment.


i wont even get to the idea of even having a house of commons in the age of the internet where everyone can represent themselves in a true democracy.

i trust 51% of the general public more than a drama teacher or smurf anyday.


we dont fuck9ng need these clowns!

they f7ck everything up

In 2017 in Oklahoma we bought our 3 bed/2 bath, backyard and garage small town home for 95k. Population 5k in this town at that point. Now they're building hundreds of new houses starting at 300k. Our neighborhood is "old town" so it's sought after hard-core because it's walking distance to all the city's public schools. We're not leaving any time soon.

I posted the insane thread about my next door neighbors selling their 1560 sq ft home for $572,000 when they were only asking $450,000. I bought my home 1980 sq ft in 2003 for $163,000. No idea what it would sell for now. Doesn’t matter. My house is not a financial instrument. It’s my home.

Nashville , TN. 2005, which was years late and last minute. It's in the core. Paid 190K in 2005. I was determined to not be tempted by the large fancy dilapidated Mansions going for 250K all over town. Homes that are now worth 2 million, or more, with the high taxes to go with it.

Thing is I have no idea what I could get. People are desperate to get into Nashville and they can tear this down, in a neighborhood you're not allowed to tear down. 1 million is a start. Some idiot would give me 2 probably.

For those of you wondering how young people can afford these homes, they inherit money, family helps them buy, or they have UT channels, work for Amazon or Google, and makes tons of money just selling crap online. To them 10k a month is a low end lifestyle.

11 years ago “paid” 174999

Just appraised at 266000

Mortgages are such a racket

You’re spot on! Many people can’t do math, they think if you bought a $400,000 house with 20% down and sold it 2 years later for $500,000 that your return was 20% total, 10% average per year ($100,000 profit/$400,000 purchase price).

But you only put $80,000 of YOUR money into it so you made 125% profit or 62.5% per year!!!! ($100,000 profit/$80,000 investment of your money).

Not understanding simple concepts like this are why the poor often stay poor.

Paid 130k for old farmhouse and 4 acres 10 years ago. Zillow says it's worth 300k, my realtor friend says 595k

We put in a new kitchen and remodeled upstairs as a nice 2 bedroom apartment for my kids.

Also have a decent orchard and gardens with perennial fruit and nut plants as well as room for veggies.

Still need to keep emptying previous owners crap out of the barn and machine shed...including an old camper.

Let's see now, 1989 was my second @ 22K, but outside the 30 year requirement, so...2 each vacation apartments side-by-side that we later modified to join the two quarters, each one cost 10K, this was on the beach at Mersin in turkey back in 1992, sold for 20K. Later, in 1998, a House in Hampton, VA for 109K, which sold for about 160K in 2013, due to death of spouse. Inherited the home in Arkansas which was an original cost around 14K in 1972, United Bilt Frame home finished by my parents, and estimated at 72K in 2010, later sold for 88K, but value was said to be about 160K, hard sale due to proposal of marriage to a Turkish girl, and finalized about 2 months after getting married in Turkey back in 2018, and the current apartment/home cost 44K. So, in the period of 1992 through 2022, we purchased 5 and sold 4, plus the other two in the years before, up to around 40 years ago.

I paid 396k in 2018, Zillow thinks it’s worth $600k now but I won’t sell. I like my house.

10 years ago we bought at 179,000. On zillion at 423,000 now.

5 more years until it's paid off.

2001 $167k starter home NJ
2004 sold $290k
2004 $325k bigger home NJ. Needed major cosmetic, roof, HVAC
2022 still in same house and might get high 4's if sold now.

fixer upper with 2 lots side by side. Hwy in front and horse pasture in back.. 10,800.00 land contract

How's your apartment? Or is that a cardboard box?

Bought a 3 bedroom. Townhouse. In 2017 for 96k. Good location. Now valued at 149k.


Just bought 12 acres of land for 36k. Going to move there. Away from the city.

Bought in 1994 for $149,95.00

Finished off the attic for a guestroom and home office and finished the basement, added a second bathroom.

Worth today $1.3 M

$192,000. Nows its worth $485,000 (florida)

Bought a house in eastern Long Island, New York in 2012 at 29 at the bottom of the market for $265k that is valued at over $500k right now. Got lucky. Taxes over $10k a year though.

I have no idea but am always wondering how to leverage the equity. If I do anything at all bc I don’t have the cajones to gamble and screw up a good deal. Just happy to have a roof over my kids heads.

$130k at 2% interest. 23 years ago now.

I’ll tell you about my second home I just sold. Marco island FL. Bought for 440k in 2008, sold for 1.35 million. Thanks Fed easy money!

It is not necessary to have bought a home to know what they cost or how that price has risen .
Why start the thread like that ?

My house is now valued at nearly TWICE the amount we paid for it. If we sold our house, we would definitely make a profit - but where would we move? Maybe down south/west where homes are more affordable. We've been investing in chicken coops, gardens, generators, preserving food, etc. The problem for us is property tax keeps going up.

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Condo in 1985 for 68,000. Homeowners associations fee was $45.00 mo. Now it’s $300 mo.