🏡 Better Homes OFFICIAL real estate bs discussion

[FirstWorldProblems]

what the fuck

3718 Main St, McHenry, IL 60050 - 4 beds/2.5 baths

(MRED) 4 beds, 2.5 baths, 2363 sq. ft. house located at 3718 Main St, McHenry, IL 60050 sold for $230,000 on Feb 12, 2021. MLS# 10904752. Your dreams are about to come true! Main street living at its fine...

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built in 1862!!! Holy crap

Based on the pic from the curb I don't know where they jammed all 2,300ft (pool doesn't count as living area methinks), but I guess every room/living area/kitchen is a closed off square you can stack them alongside each other like tetris and have decent footage on a small footprint

 

[Yaj Yak]

built in 1862!!! Holy crap

Based on the pic from the curb I don't know where they jammed all 2,300ft (pool doesn't count as living area methinks), but I guess every room/living area/kitchen is a closed off square you can stack them alongside each other like tetris and have decent footage on a small footprint

a few houses around there, that old. pretty neat shit.

pool is RIIIIGHT in there... im betting pool counts as living area too. cuz otherwise its not that big of a house.

 

[boostedguy05]

Looking at the satellite view, it is a decently long house as well, house area is longer than pool area.

 

[Yaj Yak]

i just really wanna know whats going on here

 

[Yaj Yak]

im actually leaning towards N20GT's opinion that the pool isn't included... some of the rooms are big.

not the kitchen but

 

[Chester Copperpot]

All it needs is the live laugh love and we've come full circle

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

im actually leaning towards N20GT's opinion that the pool isn't included... some of the rooms are big.

not the kitchen but

That pool room is 32 x 21, which would leave 1,700 sq ft for the rest of the house (4 beds, 2.5 bath, kitchen, lving room)

Possible but unlikely. I don't feel like adding up dimensions of each individual room

 

[Yaj Yak]

All it needs is the live laugh love and we've come full circle

well i mean, is that brick part a huge fucking chimney? can i have like bonfires in my kitchen?

 

[Chester Copperpot]

well i mean, is that brick part a huge fucking chimney? can i have like bonfires in my kitchen?

judging by the fact it has the iron door traps, that's an old ass wood fired stove

fuckin send er bud

 

[boostedguy05]

well i mean, is that brick part a huge fucking chimney? can i have like bonfires in my kitchen?

No, that is now wine storage area.

 

[Yaj Yak]

 

[Yaj Yak]

402 Nippersink Dr, McHenry, IL 60050 - 3 beds/2.5 baths

(MRED) 3 beds, 2.5 baths, 1900 sq. ft. house located at 402 Nippersink Dr, McHenry, IL 60050 sold for $315,000 on Nov 25, 2020. MLS# 10887130. Beautiful 3BR/2.1BA home on DEEP FLOWING CHANNEL - NOT ON A F...

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[Yaj Yak]

um.

wtf buggggout property

17602 Streit Rd, Harvard, IL 60033 - 1 bed/1 bath

(MRED) 1 bed, 1 bath, 1600 sq. ft. house located at 17602 Streit Rd, Harvard, IL 60033 sold for $530,000 on Nov 10, 2021. MLS# 11199733. Do you want something completely new and refreshing, perhaps even &...

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[Chester Copperpot]

 

[Yaj Yak]

when i see deals that went through like this, i feel like i should offer jack shit, on shit occasionally.

39482 N Petite Pass, Antioch, IL 60002

(MRED) Vacant land located at 39482 N Petite Pass, Antioch, IL 60002 sold for $15,000 on Oct 26, 2020. MLS# 10786784. VACANT LOT ON THE CHAIN O' LAKES!!!! LOCATED ON THE CHANNEL RIGHT OFF PETITE LAKE MINU...

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asking 37k sold for 15k.

i had a buddy just buy something like this, was a property on a busier street 'round here with 2 residential properties on it, rented out. people were asking 300k last fall

he offered 185k... they said no. he said cool, when you're ready, i have 185k for you... they said ha no way, we'll keep it.

guess who got it for 185k.

 

[Chester Copperpot]

And I bet his taxes didn't budge either.

#illinois

 

[LikeABauce302]

I think we are going to see some deals soon. I've been keeping an eye out for a house and I'm starting to see some recent foreclosures and short sales being listed.

 

[Yaj Yak]

In other news, they're going to start developing the corn field behind my house next summer/fall, soooo my new plan is to break ground in Feb (weather permitting), list my house by 3/1, be out by mid-april

I need to find a place to live for 5-6 months. Fml

Really planned to keep my house until the new one was near completion, would be sooo much easier

exciting though nonetheless.


i cruised through a hood near an area id like to live where they are currently building houses. it's a coookie cutter bane of my existence style hood but i like some of their layouts and i like the location so i did a driveby.

around here i still don't see the value in building a house and this is cookie cutter bullshit houses and im jealous you see the value in that in your area. cuz id love a new house

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

exciting though nonetheless.


i cruised through a hood near an area id like to live where they are currently building houses. it's a coookie cutter bane of my existence style hood but i like some of their layouts and i like the location so i did a driveby.

around here i still don't see the value in building a house and this is cookie cutter bullshit houses and im jealous you see the value in that in your area. cuz id love a new house

Easily 90% of the houses going up in my county are cookie cutter junk, so I'm concerned about the field behind me being sold. I hoped to have at least a year, but apparently I will not. No word yet on who the developer is but I'm sure it's not good news. I guess it could be a bunch of $330k+ all-siding cookie cutter heaps which wouldn't hurt my value really, but I don't want to stick around and take that risk.

I feel bad for my neighbors. We're at the back of the subdivision, and because there's a wide open field behind us they made the lots on my side of the street even smaller than the rest of the subdivision (like 0.2 acres, maybe even smaller), so now they're going to have houses in their backyard AND have the smallest lots in our subdivision.

Time to GTFO

 

[Fish]

I saw a plot in roselle for 85K? I wonder if a pole barn house could be built on it.

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

I saw a plot in roselle for 85K? I wonder if a pole barn house could be built on it.

100% chance of no.

 

[Yaj Yak]

OffshoreDrilling beat me to it

also 85k is a LOT for a lot (hgahahahhaha) to put a pole barn house on it.

find some land out in the counntreeeee for 10k and send it if that's the route.

 

[Fish]

100% chance of no.

I figured, but one could dream to have a 200K total house surrounded by more expensive houses, while looking and being awesome.

 

[Yaj Yak]

I figured, but one could dream to have a 200K total house surrounded by more expensive houses, while looking and being awesome.

i dont think in the direct chicagoland area with an 85k lot and 115k remaining- you could have a pole barn built, nice enough to live in/that you'd want to live in, built.

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

These pole barn homes you see being built are on someone’s 10,000 acre ranch is Texas

I figured, but one could dream to have a 200K total house surrounded by more expensive houses, while looking and being awesome.

prob could have done it maybe 30+ years ago. Anywhere even remotely suburban, this isn’t going to fly