Flounderpounder (10/4/2007)Too expensive? Try looking at prices for waterfront comunities in the rest of the country (west coast, east coast, South FL). Pensacola is an amazing BARGAIN compared to most places! Lower taxes (still) than a lot of places too! On top of that, we have better fishing, beaches and weather than most, and less traffic! Heck we even have some high ground (can you say storm surge?) right up to the water! What I'm asking formy 2800 sq ft home (1/2 mile from the bay) wouldn't get me a similar building lot in a lot of other places!
OK, here's a challenge: where could one go to find better (apples to apples) prices on real estate with equal ammenities, easy water access,and quality of life???? :letsparty
You have to look at it in relative terms. I'll throw my numbers out there... I'm not ashamed. I have 1700sqft on end of cul de sac with almost a half acre and a nice shed. Nice quiet middleclass neighborhood. 3 mins from the Mall, 5 mins from the interstate. AND 2 mins from the local fishing store! $70,500(4 years ago). House next door, smaller house, smaller lot, crappy driveway, sold for 99,900 in less than a week. I'm in good shape.
Take $100,000 +25% (willing to have a little higher house payment) I searched in the areas that I mentioed above (it was just my first search). I actually prefer P'cola or AL. The only thing I came up with were 5 doublewide trailers for $122-123,000. A similar doublewide here would be in the $50,000 range!
I'm not "actually" looking for a house. I was more day dreaming. I would have to find a job there first. I searched another site (for Pcola, milton, pace etc) and saw a few houses in the 140-180 range, but they were all in pretty bad shape. I've had a couple of PM's offering houses, but they were all WAY out of my range. I went way wrong somewhere in life :banghead haha. Thanks anyway guys.
As for DeFuniak. My family is from there, but I want to be much closer. I want to live in a town that has water frontage. Not, a house with frontage, just in a town that does.
Like I said, I would have to find a job first and I have never looked for a job. I have always been hired away from where I already worked by someone offering more money. Anyone know anyone looking to pay good money for 36yr old fishing bum. I'm willing to work overtime at it!:angel The point of my post was more to point out the huge gap in middleclass housing in the whole gulf market. My wife and I would obviously have a really hard time living there, unless the wages were just vastly better.
