After church today, and before my husband had to leave for work, we looked at a couple of homes that are for sale. The realtor that we are working with actually suggested that we should find some land and build after what we saw today. The homes that are available for sale right now are either overpriced or absolutely bizarre in how they are laid out or both.
One of the houses was located in what my husband calls a "hillbilly subdivision", which means that
someone decided to sell lots off of their property and have all of them connected to a central gravel driveway that leads to the main road. These type of situations are all over the place out here, and few of them have any covenants. This means that you might have a $300000 home next to a doublewide with siding falling off.
The other house suffered from a serious case of poor design and layout, as it needed walls knocked out and an addition to make it work for us even temporarily. It was also in a version of a hillbilly subdivision, but in this case the property owner had sold lots that were all parallel to the main road, so each home had a drive leading to U.S.40.
To be fair to the housing market, both of these properties were foreclosures, but we have seen some really odd housing situations in our search the last few months. I think we likely will take our realtor's advice in the end.
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