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Move somewhere where there's a lot of housing. I live in Baltimore and there are plenty of sub 200k homes in non-terrible neighborhoods (relatively speaking)
by throwaway6734 5y ago
Move somewhere where there's a lot of housing. I live in Baltimore and there are plenty of sub 200k homes in non-terrible neighborhoods (relatively speaking)
- soylentcola 5y agoCurious what neighborhood you ended up in. The "relatively speaking" part is huge in a city where a mile can make the difference between "reasonably decent and can still walk to things sometimes" and "might as well have bought in the county if I have to drive everywhere". And I wasn't just looking in the heart of gentrified neighborhoods either (didn't even bother with Canton/Fells/Hampden/Fed Hill/etc). I was shopping for over a year back in 2017, and even when I found a place in need of some work, a little ways out past the recent renovated flips and dual-income-large-dog-owners, I'd still get beaten by cash offers, even if I put in my offer the day it went on the market. Those "decent spot, but haven't been updated in a while" places are prime picking for flippers and rental property owners, whereas in the past those were how you got a deal and "bought up" into a halfway decent area without mortgaging your life away.
- throwaway6734 5y agoAround Charles village: station north, Barclay, old goucher, Abell, etc. Greenmount is seeing some development now and it's becoming less of a dividing line than it used to be. We picked up a 2 bdrm/1.5 bath for ~190k in 2019. We're within walking/biking distance to a ton of cool restaurants and things to do.