Posted on 06/14/2021 12:41:50 PM PDT by blam
Why have thousands upon thousands of very wealthy people suddenly felt an overwhelming urge to buy a home in Montana? At this moment, Montana is one of the hottest real estate markets in the entire country. When a desirable house is put on the market, it can often spark a wild bidding war. Of course the vast majority of the potential buyers involved in these bidding wars do not actually have any roots in Montana at all. Vast hordes of wealthy individuals from Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and other major cities are flooding into the state, and there is only a limited amount of housing to accommodate them. As a result, home prices are being pushed to absolutely absurd levels.
In the Flathead Valley, home builders have been working incredibly hard to construct houses for the new arrivals. The following comes from a New York Post article entitled “Montana, the sold-out state New Yorkers can’t get enough of”…
All around the Lodge, along Montana Highway 35, from Kalispell to Whitefish, are what the locals call “COVID homes,” prefabricated track houses that line up along what used to be a timber farm — all of which were built last year and sold at around $550,000.
“Most were bought sight unseen for cash deals,” said Doug Averill.
$550,000 may have seemed like a hefty price when those homes originally went up, but today $550,000 would be considered a bargain price.
That is because the average selling price of a home in Flathead County has now risen to more than $638,000…
In May 2020, the average sale price for a home in Flathead County was $447,387 — a year later it had increased to $638,992. The average number of days a property stayed on the market...
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
the most watched movie for those traveling to Montana.
“...our society is starting to come apart at the seams and they can sense that enormous trouble is ahead.”
Yep. Especially in urban areas with many minorities. Hard inflation and shortages will be very triggering.
Wishing now my fairly recent last move was instead to a more rural/secluded area, with a well, septic, propane, a wood stove and nearby hunting and fishing.
I thought Trump was improving things and America would want more. Then, traitorous D’rats stole the election from him while RINOs looked away.
So, I’m prepping as best I can and getting to be part of a local, pre-established group of like-minded souls.
They won’t last the winter.
North Idaho has been overrun by these types in the last few years. We haven’t had a hard winter for a while. When we do I hope to see a caravan of U-Hauls heading south in the Spring.
I moved here from Alaska because I wanted to live where the winters were at least two weeks shorter ;-)
déjà vu was the name of Frank Zappa and the mothers of invention’s 4th album. ;)
Heh.
Then pass a New Law requiring 10 years of Full Time residency before being eligible to VOTE@!!
Plus, the place is crawling with skinheads and Nazis. We also have active volcanoes, quicksand and pygmy headhunters.
ask them... they’re the ones that know the answer...
They’re trying to get there before Black Rock and its ilk buy up all the good real estate.
Some of my folk are from Kalispell and Whitefish and it’s going to be a fun experience for these goons when Nov hits and they are trying to run a Prius on standard tires down a logging road 20 miles into town for basic supplies through whiteout conditions.
My Father-in-law’s family migrated to Wyoming in the early to get the 140 acres of land for free if they homesteaded there for a year. They cut about 50 cords of firewood for the coming winter. After the year and some -50 degrees F days during the Winter they headed back to Cleveland, Ohio.
Cheap dental floss?
Yippee kiyo, kiyea....
I was talking to a lady at a ski resort in Montana a couple years ago. She was disgusted with all the trust funders buying homes and destroying her state. Gotta be worse now.
The lyrics to Merle Haggard’s classic “Big City” are so applicable to today as to be prophetic!
And snakes! Lots of snakes!
Thank you!
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