I wish you hadn't done that, Debodun. Now I'll be on zillow and realtor.com for the rest of the afternoon. I've always loved to look at houses and once they started showing the interior, so I can look at other people's furniture, I can spend hours.
Until last year we had a quiet tree lined road behind us that led to a little group of charming cottage-condos. Now that whole strip is lined with about twenty new houses. The cheesiest, most poorly built, things you've ever seen. they all have front porches that look like back stoops, garages twice as wide as the house, four tiny bedrooms, two tiny baths and living rooms that are about 10' x 10' opening onto tiny ugly kitchens. Cheap gray carpeting throughout. All going for about $240,000.
As Don says these are "starter" homes, and all the new families are young, but I hate to see them invest so much money in houses that are already starting to crumble.
