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Lifestyle => Tha G-Spot => Topic started by: Knoshen on January 13, 2006, 10:55:32 PM

Title: FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES(Why are houses so much?
Post by: Knoshen on January 13, 2006, 10:55:32 PM
how do you guys live out there, do people rent or mortgage


check this out


(http://www.ziprealty.com/images_mls/SOCALMLS/P/48/88/27/_P/P488827_P01.jpg)

Listing Price: $849,000


ok a house in surrey bc

(http://a.im.craigslist.org/WH/Hb/0ieV5H7K0rTP8mmCuU20PHDOQBx5.jpg)


Listing price $535,555

and thats canadian money
Title: Re: FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES(Why are houses so much?
Post by: Da WCC Hopar! on January 13, 2006, 11:35:31 PM
cuz america is fucked up
Title: Re: FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES(Why are houses so much?
Post by: Lincoln on January 13, 2006, 11:36:14 PM
Supply and demand.
Title: Re: FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES(Why are houses so much?
Post by: SGV on January 13, 2006, 11:37:49 PM
Try getting an Apartment in NY... They're just as expensive. Big cities are almost always expensive... Cuz like Lincoln said... Supply and Demand. The Demand is high for houses in the L.A. area, so they're bound to be expensive.
Title: Re: FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES(Why are houses so much?
Post by: BizzyR.I.P. on January 13, 2006, 11:53:57 PM
Not in East LA. My dad paid between $200-250k for our house. Then he just knocked it down & built a new, way better house. Getting the permits for this is a bitch though.
Title: Re: FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES(Why are houses so much?
Post by: J Bananas on January 13, 2006, 11:54:02 PM
that's just california in general, you should see northern california....altho i'm surprised you havent already seeing as ur on the bays nuts
Title: Re: FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES(Why are houses so much?
Post by: SGV on January 14, 2006, 12:01:30 AM
Word... It's real expensive up north.
Title: Re: FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES(Why are houses so much?
Post by: Sikotic™ on January 14, 2006, 12:02:52 AM
Just kill an old woman and live in her crib.
Title: Re: FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES(Why are houses so much?
Post by: R-Tistic on January 14, 2006, 01:50:50 AM
Yea it's just because so many people wanna live in LA. My parents paid around 150,000 for our house in Gardena, and it's worth over 500,000, even though it's not in the nicest of neighborhoods. Even in Compton and Watts, houses are pretty expensive. Inglewood is definitely high priced as hell, and lets not even talk about Carson. I think LA is the only place in America that has hoods where houses cost 300 400+ thousand dollars.
Title: Re: FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES(Why are houses so much?
Post by: Don Seer on January 14, 2006, 02:19:21 AM
shits fucked over here in england too.. an entry level house is 120k.. (213K USD).. on an average wage round here you can only borrow 60K (106K USD) my parents house which is an ok size.. has 3 bedrooms but 1 is pretty small is worth around 180K (320K USD).

60K is 3.5 ish times the average wage.. a couple both earning average wage cant double that to borrow 120K but more like 85K.. the multiplier drops to 2.5 not 3.5 for a couple... yes i know some places with offer over 2.5 or 3.5 x.. i've been offered mortgages of 5x my salary.. i'm likely to have to borrow over 4 times once i've saved up a deposit. i'm having to save 20 grand UK (38K USD) to be able to buy a house.. and on top of that i'm gonna save a bit more to pay for legal expenses, some initial basic furnishing & appliances and have money left afterwards


Title: Re: FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES(Why are houses so much?
Post by: K A I N on January 14, 2006, 03:53:29 AM
They want you to pay up or move away  :D
Title: Re: FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES(Why are houses so much?
Post by: Mr. O on January 14, 2006, 08:49:43 AM
Yea it's just because so many people wanna live in LA. My parents paid around 150,000 for our house in Gardena, and it's worth over 500,000, even though it's not in the nicest of neighborhoods. Even in Compton and Watts, houses are pretty expensive. Inglewood is definitely high priced as hell, and lets not even talk about Carson. I think LA is the only place in America that has hoods where houses cost 300 400+ thousand dollars.
YOu live in Gardena?   I don't live to far away from it.  Yeah..the house in calis are expensive.  We gotta either kill more people or kick them out of the california. ahah  jk.  but on the real,...we need to get rid of people. These real estates guys wanna drive poor people out of their homes...damn. and be no more poverty.
Title: Re: FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES(Why are houses so much?
Post by: WestCoasta on January 14, 2006, 11:09:34 AM
that's just california in general....altho i'm surprised you havent already seeing as ur on the bays nuts
Title: Re: FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES(Why are houses so much?
Post by: K A I N on January 14, 2006, 11:24:22 AM
San Fran/San Diego/OC most expensive.
Title: Re: FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES(Why are houses so much?
Post by: Just Another Sunny day in California on January 16, 2006, 09:13:46 PM
i live in central cali, houses are still around 300 here.  i know la and up north is a bitch though that's why i love the central.
Title: Re: FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES(Why are houses so much?
Post by: coola on January 16, 2006, 09:21:57 PM
a house in the cpt is expensive ?
Title: Re: FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES(Why are houses so much?
Post by: Machiavelli on January 16, 2006, 09:28:01 PM
San Fran/San Diego/OC most expensive.

yeah my parents bought a house in 1999 in Carmel Valley and it cost 375,000 at the time now its almost 1 million crazy shit...To bad they sold it in 2002 for only 550,000...
Title: Re: FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES(Why are houses so much?
Post by: Mr. O on January 16, 2006, 10:34:49 PM
a house in the cpt is expensive ?
not really.
Title: Re: FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES(Why are houses so much?
Post by: ZILLA THA GOODFELLA on January 17, 2006, 12:02:29 AM
As far as San Francisco goes, there's a reason why the bay area got the highest rate of homeless people in America and so much public and section 8 housing etc. And everyone else who doesn't feed off the government lives paycheck to paycheck barely making it. Not too many people know what 'poor' is anymore, the poor has become majority. And it has created this cutthroat state of mind that is tearing our society apart from the inside. It's a fucked up situation for all, we will all wake up one day realizing life passed us by while we were planning for something better for ourselves, sad but true.
Title: Re: FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES(Why are houses so much?
Post by: Don Seer on January 17, 2006, 12:11:48 AM
^.. thats deep.. way i see it u gotta keep building towards something n stop procrastinating
Title: Re: FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES(Why are houses so much?
Post by: J Bananas on January 17, 2006, 12:35:15 AM
San Fran/San Diego/OC most expensive.

yeah my parents bought a house in 1999 in Carmel Valley and it cost 375,000 at the time now its almost 1 million crazy shit...To bad they sold it in 2002 for only 550,000...

you ever live out there? i used to take swim lessons out at the public pool. yeah, place is expensive a s fuck
Title: Re: FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES(Why are houses so much?
Post by: Machiavelli on January 17, 2006, 06:22:05 PM
San Fran/San Diego/OC most expensive.

yeah my parents bought a house in 1999 in Carmel Valley and it cost 375,000 at the time now its almost 1 million crazy shit...To bad they sold it in 2002 for only 550,000...

you ever live out there? i used to take swim lessons out at the public pool. yeah, place is expensive a s fuck

yeah I use to live out there...yeah, i know where that public pool is at. Its in the Community Center on Townsgate Drive...
Title: Re: FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES(Why are houses so much?
Post by: J Bananas on January 17, 2006, 06:40:10 PM
San Fran/San Diego/OC most expensive.

yeah my parents bought a house in 1999 in Carmel Valley and it cost 375,000 at the time now its almost 1 million crazy shit...To bad they sold it in 2002 for only 550,000...

you ever live out there? i used to take swim lessons out at the public pool. yeah, place is expensive a s fuck

yeah I use to live out there...yeah, i know where that public pool is at. Its in the Community Center on Townsgate Drive...

cool, all the kids i used to know out there became pill poppers or cokeheads, stay away!
Title: Re: FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES(Why are houses so much?
Post by: coola on January 17, 2006, 08:32:06 PM
Even in Compton and Watts, houses are pretty expensive. Inglewood is definitely high priced as hell,

you wouldn't think it's expensive there.
Title: Re: FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES(Why are houses so much?
Post by: R-Tistic on January 18, 2006, 07:31:52 AM
a house in the cpt is expensive ?
not really.

Many houses in Compton actually are expensive compared to the rest of the country. They might not be as much as a house in OC, West L.A., or any other Upper class or upper-middle class neighborhood, but for the type of environment that Compton is, it definitely costs more than almost any other place in America. For the price you will probably pay for a 2 or 3 bedroom in gang territory with a lotta grafitti all through the neighborhood, you could easily buy a 4 or 5 bedroom house in Atlanta or it's suburbs in a very nice neighborhood, and that is a big city as well. So yeah, it really is expensive there, especially in the spots where it isn't 100% grimey. And Watts has a few streets off of Wilmington that have very nice houses and they definitely cost a lot to live in.
Title: Re: FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES(Why are houses so much?
Post by: Oklin on January 18, 2006, 08:22:11 AM
cuz america is fucked up
Title: Re: FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES(Why are houses so much?
Post by: Juronimo on January 18, 2006, 12:50:25 PM
I live on Orange County and I paid $165,000 for my condo and now similar units are selling for over $375,000.
Title: Re: FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES(Why are houses so much?
Post by: ABN on January 18, 2006, 01:04:46 PM
I live on Orange County and I paid $165,000 for my condo and now similar units are selling for over $375,000.
real estate is probably the best investment you can make these days and not just in america. my brother bought his house for 1.4 million SKīs(about 200k$) 5 years ago and he sold it for 3.1 million last year. and thatīs in a very middle class area. definently gonna buy me a house within the next 2 years coz even if i have to take loans itīs damn near impossible to not make a profit in the long run.
Title: Re: FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES(Why are houses so much?
Post by: Dubz on January 18, 2006, 03:10:10 PM
bostons expensive as fuk too. my house cost 150g originally i think, not it could go for a mill i bet
Title: Re: FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN LOS ANGELES(Why are houses so much?
Post by: ecrazy on January 18, 2006, 03:15:25 PM
Get this, my Grandparents bought there house in 1968 for $45,000
Estimated market value of their property Now is $1.8 Million (they live on a hill, i guess that makes a difference)