• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    6 days ago

    Former Austin resident here (1999-2022). The last house I owned there I bought in 2016 for $225k. In 2021 I was getting unsolicited offers for $750k (Zillow estimate in January 2020 was $450k). Finally sold it two weeks ago (didn’t know if I’d need to move back for work) for $515k.

    A: Double the price in a decade is insane. Triple had I sold in 2021 is beyond words.

    B: Someone in 2021 paid $300k over the market value a year prior and is now severely upsidedown on their mortgage.

    Austin was great, but that was obviously a bubble to anyone with any common sense.

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      6 days ago

      My neighbor did that on his home paid 150k for house valued at 139k. He plans on selling this year be interested to see what he ask for it. But it is bad time to be a seller right now.

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      6 days ago

      You should have kept it and lived in it forever instead of using it as an unregulated way to gain wealth.

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        5 days ago

        I moved out of Texas you dummy. Why would I keep a house somewhere I don’t live in. I guess I could have kept it and become a scumbag landlord instead of making it available to homebuyers. Eternal wealth through hoarding!

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          Lol you didn’t make it available to anyone but private equity or another asshole using real estate as financial gain.