I Love Texas

[guttboy]

Gunslinger,

WELCOME TO SAN ANTONIO!  I am off of 281 in the stone oak area...you need to try out Rudy's.....Miller's is OK but Rudy's is excellent!

Gimme a buzz sometime and we can do dinner or something!

Make sure you get a season's pass to Sea World!  Much better than paying the daily rate...plus you can go there free once with your family with the Salute to the Troops deal....they should open in March/April

Take care!!!!

Mike

[indy007]

Originally posted by Gunslinger
I have to say though.....the traffic isn't nearly as bad here, but the drivers are.

Then don't come to Houston We get the bad traffic AND the bad drivers.

The rest of the nation's housing costs are ridiculous. My brother in law is a builder. That same 138k home only costs about 70k to build. Saving my pennies to have him build mine, then I get almost half the value of the home in instant equity.

[nuchpatrick]

WOW! Great hook Gunslinger!! Same house here in Orlando would go for over 250K..

[Goth]

Originally posted by rpm
Welcome to Texas my friend. You will also become well aquainted with Taco Cabana.

When I was stationed at Ft Sam, Taco Cabana rocked...that was back in the late 80's, glad to hear they're still up and running when many franchises blow away. Miss them frajita's!

[Mustaine]

everyone else mentioned the same exact thing that came to my mind...

$138k for 2300 sq feet??! AND a pool!!!?!?!

$300K easy here minium.

i did a search the other day on shorewest.com for the county i live in (a suburb of milwaukee county) of houses $125k and lower.

in the whole county there was 1 listing:
http://www.shorewest.com/vp/ListingServlet?SITE=SHOREW&ScreenID=LISTING_DETAIL_P&cd_MLS=618060

i am guessing you got a much better house than that.

[eagl]

Housing prices in Texas have shown a sensible climb over the last 5 years, unlike other parts of the country with similiar economic situations.  Prices have risen between 2 and 8% per year through most of Texas, pretty much keeping pace with the economy.  That's a good thing 'cause when the housing price boom gets it's inevitable correction, Texas shouldn't get hit too hard.

Texas gets ya hard in property taxes though, but that's the tradeoff for not paying state income tax.

[Maverick]

Good deal on the house Guns. I hope the closing goes smoothly for you!

Since you'll be in the San Antoio area we'll have to get together. I have grandkids there and we stop by at least once a year for about a month or so in the hill country just NW of the city.

[Curval]

Originally posted by Mustaine
everyone else mentioned the same exact thing that came to my mind...

$138k for 2300 sq feet??! AND a pool!!!?!?!

$300K easy here minium.

i did a search the other day on shorewest.com for the county i live in (a suburb of milwaukee county) of houses $125k and lower.

in the whole county there was 1 listing:
http://www.shorewest.com/vp/ListingServlet?SITE=SHOREW&ScreenID=LISTING_DETAIL_P&cd_MLS=618060

i am guessing you got a much better house than that.

2300 sq feet 3bedrooms and a pool would run about 1.5 - 2 million here.

[Gunslinger]

For those wondering why I offered list, it's because I wanted them to pay some of the closing costs.  That way it's les out of pocket for me.  Either way the house will appraise between 140 and 145.  They even offered up the Fridge and their pool table.  I really don't have the time to haggle and I'm going to be pressed to close in 3 weeks.  GAWD i'm moving in 3 weeks!!!:confused:


Here's some Pics, I hope they link:










The upstairs is nice as well.  It's got a HUGE loft which is the future home of my "media room".  The master bedroom is pretty big as well.  All the bedrooms have walk in closets and the upstairs bath room was recently re-modled.  The house itself still has 5 years left on it's orriginal builder's warrenty.

I'll post some pics of the garage when I get back to Kalifornia tomorrow.  This is the only downside (well depends on how you look at it)  The previous owner finsished the garage up nice and put up a wall in front of the garage door to close it off.  This is where the pool table is.  My wife wants to keep it that way, wich isn't all that bad reall.  But I REALLY like to work in the garage.  It has a tool shed so tool storage isn't an issue.  To get it back to normal it's just a matter of knocking down a non-loadbearing wall and re-installing the opener.  I'm totally stoked!!!!!!!!!  I just hope we don't hit any snaggs on closing.

PS I've seen the rudy's but unfortunatly I wont have time to stop there.  The HEB deli/take out was what's for lunch and left over papa johns for dinner.  I'm studying for my WAPS (promotion) test that I have next week.

[Curval]

They forgot to dig a big hole and bury the pool.
Nice big kitchen...like that.  Kitchens and bathrooms...always think kitchens and bathrooms.

Nice man!  

[midnight Target]

138??? dayyyumm.

[Mustaine]

oh yeah, that is a $300k house here in the milwaukee area easy.

[Skuzzy]

Curval, there are many places in Texas you cannot have an in-ground pool due to the soil and/or sea level of the property.  

I do not know if this is the case or not here, but I know there are many areas of the Dallas/Ft. Worth area where you cannot have an in-ground pool, nor a concrete slab foundation due to shifting soil conditions (we have a lot of clay in the ground here).

138 is a pretty good price for that home.

[midnight Target]

That house would cost 450k here, 550 to 650 in Orange County. Maybe more if it's within smelling distance of the ocean.

[lasersailor184]

Plus the backyard is rather small Skuzzy (at least from the pictures).  Puttin in a pool in ground would be a big undertaking.