ha, were actually like 35-40 min out from chicago, I like having a garage and city life you dont really get that. Unless its suburb chicago, but i wanted avoid cook county taxes
Thank god wife has perfect credit( i messed mine up when I was younger, Im working on it 715 finally woohoo) So house is just in her name for now, untill I refinance to a VA loan. We were looking for short sales, fannie may homes. Way below house prices before housing crash 05-06. Funny thing is now people notice there homes that they bought for 200k-300k are now selling for more than half that. So people are short sale there homes and having family buy it for half of what they bought it for. So they look into that now, I think thats what the second guy was trying to pull but oh well.
Yea I pretty sure home repairs will add up, outside seems good. Inside new drywall, paint, flooring. old fuse box replace to breaker box. Glad to know people in trades. But I guess its true a home is one the better investments you can make in life. If we sold when economy got good even for 160k we made 80 plus pay bank back.
Another thing like my friend said (kotscolt) soon you get your house, you kinda drag on working on your car. Hope thats not the case