I did it

[EX#996]

I guess if the inlaws were moving in I would want more, or better yet, a whole lot less, so they find somewhere else to go. ;D

LOL....

However we're looking at that possibility in the future and our house is only 1200 square feet.  Perhaps we'll put them up in the barn   ;D

I agree with Nate.  Everyday I drive past these HUGE houses and think....  WHY?


Dawn  

[cornercamping]

You will do anything so that you don't have to show up at the track! Remember we still have a bet going!

 ;D  I'll still be in Chicago 9 days a month.  Also, I don't make bets I can't win.  Just ask Rev.  ;) ;D

[cornercamping]

Well, I need room.  I also work from home alot, so that means I need to be able to work without the kid yelling in the backround while I'm on the phone.  
Realistically, most people don't need large homes.  They also don't need leather interiors in cars, ect.  But, people still get it.  I don't know, I grow up in a big house,  and always lived in one.  They weren't anything special.   :-/ Just nice to have enough room to do what you want and not have to go buy again later if you need more room.  Most houses now are over 2k sq. ft. anyways, especially in subdivisions.

[CCSRacer114]

Get a good real estate agent in Orlando.  He or she will ask some questions, and show you some houses that meet your needs. Scheduling in advance should allow you to see 15-20 properties per day.

If you need a referral, PM me.

(disclaimer: I'm not involved in real estate sales, but I have some friends who are)

[H-man]

 ::) This thread.  C'mon Dan!

[cornercamping]

I'm serious H.  I wanna move.  I've been wanting to, and this frigid weather finally helped me convince the wife.  The only thing keeping us around in the past was her father.  And now....    well, you know.  Anyways, I'm already on the hunt.  I'd like to move soon.  Preferrably before the warm weather hits MI.

[H-man]

Okay.  If you're serious about moving so be it.  But, how old are you?  [that's a rhetorical question].  You're the CTO of your company, you claim to have had a large custom home built in Washington Twp (very nice suburb of Detroit) and you know no one to hook you up with a real estate lead?

Your wife turns to you for he car being purchased, getting repaired and assisting with matters on her family's side yet a very expensive and important decision like where your children will go to school, your neighborhood and home, she's insisting that decision is to be made in one week?  And you're just going along with that?

Just saying this tread doesn't hold much logical credibility for me.

In any case, I wish you well in your future Dan-O.

Just gimme my beers (including the one from the bet you lost to me earlier this year) before you head south ;D

[cornercamping]

Actually, your right on most of it.  I wasn't really asking for a realestate lead though, although appreciated.  I was asking others how they did it when moving out of state.  Closing on the house, ect. That's all.  I'm not sure exactly what area's are good and bad.  That's why I'm asking here.  So we don't end up in the wrong area.   I know it takes time, but renting isn't an option for us anymore. Long story. I'm sure that we can find a house down there without going thru too much headache when it comes to actually find it. The purchase itself is probably a pain though.  Never bought out of state land before. There does come the point where everything is obvious, plus their is always research on the internet.  
As far as the time line, it's wide open.  Whenever we find something we'll move.  I'd like to move ASAP, but that isn't going to happen for a while.   My goal is to head somewhere warm year round.  More or less H, I want to find the "Washington Twp." in the Orlando, FL area.  That type of location.  Just don't know where it is.    
And Washington isn't the greatest.  It's just semi-quiet, but not too far away from everything else.  That's what I want.  

and I always pay my bets  ;)

[251am]

  Don't think I'd move to Orlando area on purpose, but I do know of a set of Dunlops that have not moved to Wisconsin yet ::)

   Are you moving from the cold or the heat?  

[cornercamping]

Damn, I forgot.  :-[  

Moving to heat from the cold

[MELK-MAN]

Real Estate Example:

Detroit Area- 3950 sq. ft.  4 bedroom, 3 full bath, 3 car garage.  .35 acre lot.  $625,000.00


You know what kind of house you could get down in FL for $625K  :o  10K sq. ft or something.  Detroit is way overpriced. >:(

You would have to be looking in pretty rural areas to get 10,000 sf of house for less thatn $625k. In south Tampa/Hyde park/Palma ceia area $625k gets you less than 3,000sf but some of hte best school districts and classic 1920's homes, or new homes built to look like 1920 homes due to Architecural review commity..

Jennings is about 3hrs from orlando.. Same with tampa.

[TZDeSioux]

hey richboy.. you live in Grosse Pointe now? You know Werner Spitz? He used to be the Wayne County chief medical examiner.