Anyone thinking about moving to Atlanta?

[_Kevin Graham]

To upset you folks even more, the house is actually a little overpriced.

Open house on Saturday with the new price listed at $330k. We paid $238k about six weeks ago and put about $23k in renovations.

We have a buyer from California wanting to see it on Sunday. California! This would be a million dollar home in most places in Cali.

[_Kevin Graham]

All of the reliable websites list it at 3505 sq ft but that's the 2500 above grade + whatever was finished in the basement at the time that number was determined. We have since finished the entire basement, so add about another 600 sq ft to get a more accurate figure. Those websites also say our home is 3,800 sq ft and my kids insist this one is bigger.

[_Jersey Girl]

All of the reliable websites list it at 3505 sq ft but that's the 2500 above grade + whatever was finished in the basement at the time that number was determined. We have since finished the entire basement, so add about another 600 sq ft to get a more accurate figure. Those websites also say our home is 3,800 sq ft and my kids insist this one is bigger.

Gotcha. So could you fix that listing for me, Kevin?

[_Jersey Girl]

To upset you folks even more, the house is actually a little overpriced.

Open house on Saturday with the new price listed at $330k. We paid $238k about six weeks ago and put about $23k in renovations.

We have a buyer from California wanting to see it on Sunday. California! This would be a million dollar home in most places in Cali.

Who did the reno/upgrades? Did you use subcontractors and if so, how did you find them?

p.s. You don't upset me. :-D

[_AmyJo]

To upset you folks even more, the house is actually a little overpriced.

Open house on Saturday with the new price listed at $330k. We paid $238k about six weeks ago and put about $23k in renovations.

We have a buyer from California wanting to see it on Sunday. California! This would be a million dollar home in most places in Cali.

Did you buy it at a foreclosure or short sale? Is your asking price the going market value in the area for that home? If so, you got a steal of a deal.

It's a nice house, but not someplace I'd want to live as pretty as it is there. I have no ties to Georgia. When I retire I hope to relocate back west to a warmer, more arid climate. I'll want a house but not that large.

[_Kevin Graham]

The home belonged to my ex-brother in law who was trying to avoid foreclosure. We bought it to help him and my sister who are going through divorce. They needed the money to pay my nephew's tuition at Auburn. But we stand to venefit as well, obviously.

The home was appraised last week for $345k, hence the price. But it is a little rough around some of the edges and my wife is lowering it to $334,900 tomorrow. A home on the same street sold for $369k but it had a pool and fewer bedrooms.

My wife finds these guys who renovate homes at rock bottom prices. Mexicans and Brazilians of course. I hired one American guy to change the trim on some of the windows and doors and he did a crappy job and charged me $450 for only 4 hrs work. He then came back the next day with a second invoice of $96 for minor things he did that my wife asked him to do, like screw in a broken toilet paper roll holder. Things I would have done and he never indicated he was charging in the first place.

[_MsJack]

Who wants to live in Atlanta? It's infested with zombies. No wonder the housing is so cheap.

[_Kevin Graham]

True that. Incidentally, i just found out that the kid in Walking Dead lives in that same neighborhood.

[_AmyJo]

345,000 doesn't sound like cheap housing to me. Atlanta is a metropolis and in the sunbelt. I don't care for the traffic or higher crime rates of large cities - but it has lots of perks for living there culturally and climate wise.

I've been to the south once with my mom on a genealogy trip when I was a teenager. Loved the place, just don't envision myself living there.

One of my great uncles was a spy under General Sherman during the Civil War in the South.

As for lots of history, intrigue and romance the south is full of it. The one thing I picked up on with my mom when we were there is the Civil War is still not over, and the South has not declared defeat.

We stayed with Mormon families. The friendliest people were blacks when we needed directions. They were the ones who went out of their way to be kind and helpful.

Most everyone was polite however. With exception of some hoodlums who tried chasing us down the Ozark Mountains on a Sunday afternoon, when the state troopers were apparently not working. My mom had the foresight to stop at a gas station at the foot of the mountains as they chased us from a rest stop to call for help. They took off only because she stopped for help. That was the only frightening moment of the whole trip.

[_subgenius]

To upset you folks even more, the house is actually a little overpriced.

Open house on Saturday with the new price listed at $330k. We paid $238k about six weeks ago and put about $23k in renovations.

We have a buyer from California wanting to see it on Sunday. California! This would be a million dollar home in most places in Cali.

1. This house ain't in California...so....
2. How do you justify your $69k "profit" ? Do you really need a 20% return? Seems like you suffer from that which you condemn others for having.....greed.