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Posted on 4/22/26 at 9:44 am to BluegrassBelle
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Holy gaslighting, Batman. Are you just assuming they’re sitting at home crying?
Likely. Since they are doing it online
Posted on 4/22/26 at 9:44 am to Techdave
quote:Dude, the AVERAGE home price is more than that.
When people on this thread think 300k is a starter home, that is delusion.
$300k is BELOW average.
Posted on 4/22/26 at 9:46 am to Salmon
quote:
buy a small starter house for $150k in a nice neighborhood
this is harder to come by every passing day.
This post was edited on 4/22/26 at 9:48 am
Posted on 4/22/26 at 9:47 am to Scruffy
Scruffy,
Do you think a starter home should be below the average home value?
Or do you think people should just magically own something nice the first time they buy. You gotta start small and build equity for something nicer.
Do you think a starter home should be below the average home value?
Or do you think people should just magically own something nice the first time they buy. You gotta start small and build equity for something nicer.
Posted on 4/22/26 at 9:47 am to Techdave
quote:
The frick it is. You don't need a 300k starter home. Get your first one for 150k. Get a used car. Live minimally until you make it.
Longfield is the most dangerous street in my Metro area. Multiple murders in that area, significantly high crime. Right outside of Churchill Downs. The absolute hood.
This 2 bedroom, 1 bath shotgun house on a postage stamp lot at 1400 sq feet is almost $200k.
Get fricked with your “just buy a $150k house” BS.
Zillow
Posted on 4/22/26 at 9:48 am to theunknownknight
quote:
210,000 dollars today is equivalent to 6 dollars an hour in 1971.
this is dumb AF
the median home size is almost 1k bigger an increase in size of almost 70%......so you accounting for that?
do we want to talk about amenities? because your theory goes to shite right after that.
Posted on 4/22/26 at 9:48 am to caro81
It does for a first time homebuyer willing to build equity.
Posted on 4/22/26 at 9:49 am to Techdave
quote:
Do you think a starter home should be below the average home value?
Yes. $300k is below average home value.
You said that was delusional.
Posted on 4/22/26 at 9:49 am to BluegrassBelle
quote:
Longfield is the most dangerous street in my Metro area. Multiple murders in that area, significantly high crime. Right outside of Churchill Downs. The absolute hood.
This 2 bedroom, 1 bath shotgun house on a postage stamp lot at 1400 sq feet is almost $200k.
Get fricked with your “just buy a $150k house” BS.
No one is making you live in that area. There are jobs elsewhere with affordable homes.
Posted on 4/22/26 at 9:49 am to Techdave
quote:Yes.
Do you think a starter home should be below the average home value?
That is what a starter home is.
The average home price is $400k.
quote:Are you even reading your own posts?
Or do you think people should just magically own something nice the first time they buy.
You gotta start small and build equity for something nicer.
You said that $300k is unreasonable.
That is BELOW the average home price.
Posted on 4/22/26 at 9:50 am to Techdave
quote:Brother, it’s been established the median home price is 420k. Starter homes are going for 300k
You don't need a 300k starter home. Get your first one for 150k.
.but your advice is to go buy some shitbox in the ghetto for 150k? In a failing public school district they can’t use? The ENTIRE point of this conversation is that if someone who is 21 years old does exactly what you did when you were 21 years old, they end up in a much worse spot. And as far as I can tell, your position on the topic is “suck for you, just work harder” instead of “wow, maybe things got messed up along the way, we should probably try to fix it.”
Can you not see how disingenuous that is?
Posted on 4/22/26 at 9:50 am to lsu777
quote:
the median home size is almost 1k bigger an increase in size of almost 70%......so you accounting for that?
Sure.
Houses that are traditionally under 1,000 square feet aren’t being built anymore (for a lot of reasons). The ones that are, either still have older generations living in them or are being bought up by venture capitalists and LLCs to rent out.
Posted on 4/22/26 at 9:51 am to Techdave
quote:
No one is making you live in that area. There are jobs elsewhere with affordable homes.
If you live in the largest Metro in Kentucky and likely work in that area you can’t realistically live 2 hours away just to find a starter house.
Posted on 4/22/26 at 9:51 am to Salmon
quote:
Yes. $300k is below average home value.
You said that was delusional.
My point is that buying a 300k home as your first home is pretty unrealistic. Go cheaper and build equity.
Posted on 4/22/26 at 9:51 am to BluegrassBelle
quote:
Houses that are traditionally under 1,000 square feet aren’t being built anymore
Posted on 4/22/26 at 9:52 am to RolltidePA
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Adjusted for inflation the $25,200 = $209,079 today
My only criticism of these comparisons is that the average home size in 1971 was just under 1,400 sq. ft. Today the average home size is 2,400 sq. ft.
that kind of tracks for my house, though. It recently appraised for $201,000 at just over 1000 sf.
Posted on 4/22/26 at 9:52 am to Salmon
The last time we did this thread, one of the usual suspects posted a picture of what he thought a starter home would be
The house would have sold for probably half a million dollars in the city I lived in at the time
Some people are just willingly detached from reality because that’s still easier than admitting shite is hard out there.
It doesn’t invalidate or diminish any work they did in their own lives, but they’ll never stop being defensive about that possibility.
The house would have sold for probably half a million dollars in the city I lived in at the time
Some people are just willingly detached from reality because that’s still easier than admitting shite is hard out there.
It doesn’t invalidate or diminish any work they did in their own lives, but they’ll never stop being defensive about that possibility.
Posted on 4/22/26 at 9:52 am to Techdave
quote:
My point is that buying a 300k home as your first home is pretty unrealistic. Go cheaper and build equity.
My first home was $300k. Why is it unrealistic? Maybe you should have got a better degree?
Pretty dumb argument, huh?
Posted on 4/22/26 at 9:52 am to Techdave
quote:There are no homes in safe areas with functioning job markets that you can find for $150k.
There are jobs elsewhere with affordable homes.
This is a dream that doesn’t exist anymore.
It is about time that you recognize this as a fact.
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