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Time to start the next chapter…Update 9/25. Under Contract!!!

wm69 said:
My great grandfather almost bought Litchfield back in the 30's. They spent summers at Pawley's Island, big cotton broker meeting out there every summer.

My great grandmother told him the land couldn't be farmed and was thus "worthless" so he didn't buy it......:banghead:
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That’s alright. My grandfather was a Navy pilot back in the 1920s. He thought planes would only carry the mail. He lived until around 1992.
 
wm69 said:
My great grandfather almost bought Litchfield back in the 30's. They spent summers at Pawley's Island, big cotton broker meeting out there every summer.

My great grandmother told him the land couldn't be farmed and was thus "worthless" so he didn't buy it......:banghead:
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Not to hijack the thread, but...while going through my grandfathers papers in 1983 when he died, we found a letter he wrote to his realtor in 1945 saying how he would NEVER pay $40.00 an acre and described it as highway robbery! He was looking at particular acreage in the Napa Valley which goes for close to $500,000 an acre now.
 
mhinchliffe said:
I live in W-S......IT SUCKS. There have been shootings 4 of the last 5 days! We're on our way out. Allen Joins the D mayor has RUINED this city!
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This is the kind of intel that I desperately need. I would love to have a map that I can highlight the bad areas in red and the hood areas in green. You can watch hours of UTube videos and get nothing.

Any other feedback?
 
Randyzzz said:
This is the kind of intel that I desperately need. I would love to have a map that I can highlight the bad areas in red and the hood areas in green. You can watch hours of UTube videos and get nothing.

Any other feedback?
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If you're looking at a particular area you can contact that area's county chamber of commerce and they usually have maps or they can put you in touch with an agency that has a map of the high crime areas.
 
Randyzzz said:
This is the kind of intel that I desperately need. I would love to have a map that I can highlight the bad areas in red and the hood areas in green. You can watch hours of UTube videos and get nothing.

Any other feedback?
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Aren’t the “hood” areas also the bad areas? At least that is how it is around here.
 
mhinchliffe said:
I live in W-S......IT SUCKS. There have been shootings 4 of the last 5 days! We're on our way out. Allen Joins the D mayor has RUINED this city!
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Seems that's everywhere. Horry county (Myrtle Beach) has always got something going on. Asheville NC which was a great place to move a few years ago,, samething. Drugs, no punishment, acceptance. I have escaped most of it by being in rural area, but bad stuff still happens in area. Truly an infection that has no boundries.
 
My phone has been substituting “hood” for “good” if I’m not careful.

I have accessed local newspapers and crime reports, CityData reports, you name it. But I somehow doesn’t seem as accurate as personal experience- especially for the “feel” of a place.
 
We live in Charlotte. Like it a lot, but eventually looking to get to the coast as I like the salt water. That said, I have a project up in the Mouth of Wilson (VA) / West Jefferson (NC) area- Pretty area- slower and cooler. I’ve always liked Boone as well- good college town vibe.
 
A decent rule of thumb is to look for the best public school systems, at least in non-rural areas.

Good public school systems don't exist in the hood.

I live in BFE now and want to move further out away from humanity at this point LOL
 
wm69 said:
A decent rule of thumb is to look for the best public school systems, at least in non-rural areas.

Good public school systems don't exist in the hood.
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This is very good advice. In Texas all school systems are rated and individual schools are rated. Look for good rated schools in a good rated system. Even good school systems have bad areas in them, so look at both to get a better picture of specific neighborhoods.

Randyzzz said:
My phone has been substituting “hood” for “good” if I’m not careful.
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I figured as much, but just could not resist the temptation to poke the bear. :wave:
 
A little update. The housing marked here has tanked. I think the rising interest rates and overall fear of the state of the economy have shut down our plans. Competitive properties have dropped their prices drastically, and that’s something we can’t afford to do. We will still have the house on the market, but I’m really not expecting it to sell. So, looks like I’ll be staying put for a while.
 
It’s starting to get a little scary out there with prices. I paid my house off a couple decades ago and projected monthly house note payment prices are crazy to me. Just a couple months ago a couple of niece and nephews that sold their homes, for over asking prices because there were more buyers than houses. Good luck with the sale!
 
I told my wife that If we didn’t sell, I was going to buy a nice trailer, and take the scrambler back to at least one event a year. Nationals, Jeep Beach, Jeep Invasion…

She was all good with that. Now I just have to get it finished!
 
Got a buddy who has his house on the market in a "hot" real estate market here in Arkansas. He's been dismayed at the pattern we've been seeing, said he might just rent his house out now.

He had a dozen offers on his house. All either had the financing fall through or backed out wanting major work done on the house. Now he's wishing he'd gone ahead and done the work to make the deal go through on one of them who actually had the financing.

I think it's gonna get worse...… I think it's gonna get a lot worse.
 
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