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I've been looking at houses lately, and in my area it's very very difficult to find something in a decent area (ie: not in the city) that doesn't look like a trash heap for less than $160k-$180k.
Now, I COULD afford a house in that range, even on my own income. I work at a union steel mill, but I'm not sure this job will be around in 10, 20, 30, etc years due to trade policies and what have you. I do have a backup plan. It doesn't pay as much, but I'll be able to make it through so long as my fiancée/wife works.
Recently, I've been looking at buying an acre or so of land and putting a modular home on said land. This is the route my parents went 25 some years ago and its a pretty nice place. I've found a few lots for sale in a pretty decent area and have been looking on different modular home websites and found a couple pretty nice layouts (3bed, 1+ bath single story and a garage, the price they listed included the cost of land prep, assembly etc) for about the same price or less than the completed homes in the same area.
This is ridiculously overwhelming. Why are people selling (not so nice) houses for so much money, when I could buy property and build for the same if not less than what they're selling for? Ugh. Growing up sucks.
And on top of that any plans to big turbo the Fusion are pretty much gone.
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