Those permits alone will kill your budget. Just speaking with someone today who had a hot water heater replacement. The cost for a needed PERMIT (city) was $75 dollars. Ridiculous.
Driving around a few weekends ago went through a small Texas town close to Collinsville. A lovely metal building-house, 2 story, 11.5 acres. 2 Texas highways traveling along side. A VERY nice place for 300,000. The location would not be conducive for sleep, I’m thinking but who knows. At least the train track is on the other side of town.
Realtors now are listing the selling price of homes and their listings usually show the monthly taxes due on the property/house. They forever have their hand in your pocket.
My hubby lived in Seattle 40-50 years ago. He just loved it. The days of wine and roses. In today’s Seattle things might be seen much differently.
TX’s property taxes are higher than even WA. I’d pay the same dollar amount in property taxes in El Paso for a pretty good house as I do on my pretty good (much more expensive) house near Tacoma. TX needs to get a handle on that nonsense.
Two things:
First, when we built our own house in the Seattle area in 1966 (I was in Jr High at the time), we paid just under $7 for a building permit. When I left the area for Kentucky back in 2011, the price of a building permit in King County was over $30,000.
That’s some serious inflation right there. :)
Second, I read an article in a San Francisco paper back in the late 80’s from one of their writers that had visited Seattle. Her article was about Seattle and lamented that the San Francisco of the time of the writing was a pit, and it used to be beautiful. As she described the beauty and politics of Seattle she said that it reminded her of San Francisco ten years before.
And here we are, decades later. Both are pretty from a distance, but are pits of filth, both physical and cultural, when you get close up.
This is why I moved to rural KY. I’m currently building mountain biking and hiking trails on my 32 acres with two streams. Seattle was a nice place - when you could actually get around and find easy parking (and it was kept clean).