TL;DR: Americans now need to make $120K a year to afford a typical middle-class life and qualify to purchase a home. Minimum.
In a hot market/location this will never happen. Even with a regular loan there’s a bidding war on houses with obvious issues.
i live in a hot market. i got one. it was a slog, but it happened.
edit: we were approved in november. we put in multiple offers and had to periodically get re-approved by the usda, but we had an offer accepted mid march and closed in april.
for a brief period, we kept the “apartment in the city” for a month and moved one sub-compact car worth of belongings across town every night. not really relevant, but i’m going to remember fondly the brief time that we kept an apartment in the city, because that shit is never gonna happen again for poor schlubs like us.
Yeah, sellers (flippers really) are asking 70-80k over the value of the house, and they want no-inspection, as is, and you need to bring cash to the closing to cover appraisal gap, which is usually in the 60-100k range.
We need to start taxing unoccupied single-family home at their list price. There is no incentive to sell at a reasonable price.
Yeah, sellers (flippers really) are asking 70-80k over the value of the house, and they want no-inspection, as is, and you need to bring cash to the closing to cover appraisal gap, which is usually in the 60-100k range.
I haven’t been in the market for nearly a decade. This seems pants-on-head crazy to me.
All I can hope for is that when the market inevitably collapses again (let’s face it, this is not sustainable) all these assholes hit rock bottom and the government FINES them instead of bailing them out.
