SSgt Ramsey
07-26-09, 06:49 AM
After a self-imposed "break" from this site due to a certain POS individual who shall remain un-named and a lot of stress from buying our first house and the nightmare that is now with the credit crunch and housing market, I'm slowly coming back to my online life.
I'm still in the process of submitting for my retro-active CAR for Silver Wake via my old Platoon Commander who's now a LtCol Reserve Officer in NY with a few Marine's notarized statements to be included for processing, so hopefully not too much longer and that will be included in my awards along with a NUC I knew nothing of...go figure lol....after these 2 I officially quit researching Maradmins pertaining to that float lol....it hurts my head.
This area is strange for housing....it's mainly a coal-mining and farming area....with a lot of poverty and drug use intermixed...and there is very little medium ground as far as what's available and the price for houses...either it's a condemned trailer or double wide you wouldn't want, or it's $300K and above...just insane.
The house we bought belonged to the sister of one of our very good friends who lives just down the road from us. It had to be sold as part of the divorce-decree. We found out about it from her brother Randy, when one day he picked me up to go riding around and I commented on this house, as I've always liked it but never knew his sister owned it. He informed me that it was for sale. The house never hit the open market and we closed without going through a Realator just a lawyer.
It's about 10 years old, .98 acres of land, 3 BR, 2 car attached garage, 1/2 unfinished basement, dining room, LR, kitchen w/island, hardwood, tile, and carpet, central air/heat pump w/gas logs in LR also.
Here's some pics, and the former owners hadn't left yet so some of their schtuff is still in the pics....but you get the idea....
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/JacksonSL-1/H1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/JacksonSL-1/H2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/JacksonSL-1/H4.jpg
I think we got a steal on this place....eventually the housing market will rebound and value increase way above what we paid for it increasing our equity in it. It sucks for sellers, but for buyers it's a great time, and we got a really low 5.5% interest rate....I can't complain.
I'm still in the process of submitting for my retro-active CAR for Silver Wake via my old Platoon Commander who's now a LtCol Reserve Officer in NY with a few Marine's notarized statements to be included for processing, so hopefully not too much longer and that will be included in my awards along with a NUC I knew nothing of...go figure lol....after these 2 I officially quit researching Maradmins pertaining to that float lol....it hurts my head.
This area is strange for housing....it's mainly a coal-mining and farming area....with a lot of poverty and drug use intermixed...and there is very little medium ground as far as what's available and the price for houses...either it's a condemned trailer or double wide you wouldn't want, or it's $300K and above...just insane.
The house we bought belonged to the sister of one of our very good friends who lives just down the road from us. It had to be sold as part of the divorce-decree. We found out about it from her brother Randy, when one day he picked me up to go riding around and I commented on this house, as I've always liked it but never knew his sister owned it. He informed me that it was for sale. The house never hit the open market and we closed without going through a Realator just a lawyer.
It's about 10 years old, .98 acres of land, 3 BR, 2 car attached garage, 1/2 unfinished basement, dining room, LR, kitchen w/island, hardwood, tile, and carpet, central air/heat pump w/gas logs in LR also.
Here's some pics, and the former owners hadn't left yet so some of their schtuff is still in the pics....but you get the idea....
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/JacksonSL-1/H1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/JacksonSL-1/H2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/JacksonSL-1/H4.jpg
I think we got a steal on this place....eventually the housing market will rebound and value increase way above what we paid for it increasing our equity in it. It sucks for sellers, but for buyers it's a great time, and we got a really low 5.5% interest rate....I can't complain.