People are just being greedy (real estate rant)

[demnan]

I can't find a decent townhouse 30 miles out of Washington, D.C. to save my neck! I put a contract on one last night and the realtor called to tell me they want money over and above the value of the house!

We aren't talking about a honey house here. We're talking about a little town home built in 1976 on a postage stamp tract of land that needs a new roof.

They want money over and above what I'm able to finance! Go figure?

[Skittles]

1. of course it is greed

all you people are F***ING GREEDY.

[Catfight]

2. Did you have your kerry sticker on your car? Tell them you're

a Bush supporter, you'll get a special interest deal. Or you could take in a repug roomate?

[demnan]

4. Not only a Kerry sticker

I have "Bush Lied, People Died" on mine.

Think I'm an "undesirable"?

[Bertha Venation]

3. visit this link

http://washingtonpost.homehunter.com/wpost/map_search.jhtml?areaId=68984,73784,70904

:shrug:

[demnan]

5. Charles County

I didn't really want to go over to Maryland although I thought about it. It is better over there, isn't it? I have family in Woodbridge.

It's certainly something I'll look into as I get more and more discouraged in Virginia.

[Bertha Venation]

12. I didn't realize how badly you wanted to stay in Virginia.

I hope you can find something that suits you in all ways. My fingers are crossed!

I can't tell you if MD would be better for you, but one thing's for sure: on the whole, MD's not nearly as conservative as VA.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Here in Castine ME, a 70s modular ranch house in scrubby, swampy land

no water view:

$300,000

[LibInternationalist]

7. market's gonna collapse soon, I can feel it

[demnan]

8. I know some people who have just given up

n/t

[gpandas]

9. greed seems to be 'american nature' n/t

[WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot]

10. I know the feeling

Prices go up religiously every year. The wife and I had come to within 2 years of buying our own house, and were pretty excited about being "only" a couple of years away. I got laid off a month later and took a few years' worth of steps back.

Little wonder why more and more apartments are being built. Apartment rent is ~1/3 of a mortgage payment.

[bhunt70]

11. This months Washingtonian has a list of neighborhoods and

the property value increase from the last 5 years I think. Absolutely phenominal. Im glad I own already.