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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And zircon encrusted tweezers to pick it.
This happened in Utah decades ago. Rich people from the left coast went there and said to themselves, “This is pretty, let’s build a McMansion here!”
Two weeks after they moved in they were bored to tears. No liquor, no drugs, no parties, no hookers, and almost no smoking. So shortly thereafter, Utah was full of abandoned McMansions selling for a fraction of the cost, and no buyers.
Flathead is beautiful.
Took my wife fishing for her first time there; caught her limit by 8:30 in the morning. Watched an osprey catch a fish from about 40 feet away, a sight I will never forget.
My mom and step dad lived there. I’m live in California, for now, but I also have a checking account and mom’s old place in the bitteroot, and a locally made hat.
There’s no comparison, Montana is God’s Country.
First winter and a lot of Californians will be “Nope”....
>So the herd is going to get thinned?
If anything, it will help educate the lefties that move to west Montana. It’s really hard to be a liberal when your plastic world of daily conveniences suddenly dissolves into a difficult reality.
I’d seriously watch out for the seasoned miscreants of the surrounding areas. If you’re a bloodthirsty criminal, what better way to spend the winter than to off a liberal boomer couple and live off in their 4,000 square foot abode alone. None of their Cali friends know where the went and they’re so far up the road that no one’s coming to check on them.
And they obviously have no idea of how to use a gun in self defense.
Most of these “wealthy” relocating folks are just regular people who happened to buy a house in the right location and hit the home equity lotto.
Because wealthy Leftists are hell-bent on colonizing red states.
This is a Great Migration for the history books. The country will never be the same after these leftist locusts finish with red states.
<< wealthy individuals from Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and other major cities >>
Libs ruin where they live through their voting habits, somehow blaming conservatives for the ruination, then move to greener (whiter) pastures, then set about ruining their new locations by exercising the very same voting habits that ruined the places they left.
They’ll winter in Sedona.
Bingo, they werent able to afford to move until covid and the housing market boomeranged into the stratosphere. After someone offers you an arm an a leg to get out of a dodge, and your company gives you a pretty good buy out, why stay? And they have little knowledge of montana in the winter. They will be going to az and texas next.
They want to escape the crapholes their political and social beliefs have created, and bring those same beliefs to a pristine place in hopes that reality is irrational and they will not recreate the same crapholes they left.
Always a Zappa lyric posted when Montana is mentioned. He was a gifted munition. He was actually a drummer before becoming a guitarist.
That’s all cool, but what about spiders?
He was da bomb!
Actually the past 2 winters here have been a disappointment. I built a huge V plow for my Deuce, and haven’t been able to use it yet.
Actually the past 2 winters here have been a disappointment. I built a huge V plow for my Deuce, and haven’t been able to use it yet.
Sliders, you say? We keep them in them in the outhouses. There’s no indoor plumbing here.
I guess you’ve been to Elmira Idaho ..hahahaha
You can get a decent burger there. Hold the spiders.
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