Hey Fabs This is for you

[gspsonny03]

Skeet and Fabs: You're both right. You hit the nail square on the head. Right now we have this job symposium going on, where they are trying to get people to come in for jobs. I keep asking myself, where are they planning on these people living? We don't have housing enough for the people that are here. They are renting apartments for over $1000.00+ and I'm talking small apartments (2 bedrooms) smaller than my basement. I understand that back east that may be the norm, but when you come out here with no job and no prospects, how will you be able to afford that. I will have to say though that there are subdivsions being built everywhere, but hardly a house less than 200,000. That may be cheap for back there, but not in Wy.

[skeet]

Telling them to come out to Wyoming from Michigan is a real joke. Those people were mostly working for the car makers. Got all that money and all those bennies and now they lost their jobs. Come to Wyoming and make 10 bucks an hour...and no union?? What will they do without a union to tell them what to do. Actually from what I have been able to find out there have been more tha 25000 people move out here from back east in the last year...lookin for work. And all those people from Colorado are movin in..course most of them are from California originally! Hope they can change enough to live here. Actually I was really surprised when I moved here. I figured I would be the new guy on the block..and I am ...somewhat. But it seems like everyone you meet is from someplace other than Wyoming

[fabsroman]

gsp,

I could sell my townhouse here, take our savings money, and buy a house out there cash if they are really $200,000 for a house. Here, you cannot touch a single family house for less than $450,000, and those were built in WWII and have about as much room in them as my townhouse, with a little more yard than my townhouse. My townhouse is going for close to $400,000, which is utterly insane since it went for $157,000 9 years ago. The homes we are looking at are in the $700,000 range and they aren't even that nice for that kind of money. 6 or 7 years ago, you could buy a mansion for $500,000. Not so anymore. When my brothers bought their house 8 years ago, they paid $195,000 for it, now it sells for close to $500,000. Utterly insane. I am predicting that things are going to change as far as house prices are concerned because people just cannot afford them, period. If my wife and I cannot afford a house and we are well above the median household income for this area and our spending habits are really good, I don't think the majority of people can afford a house if they didn't already buy one years ago.

[skeet]

I turned a deal down on a place that had about 1300 acres with a nice house(real nice) for 720 grand. Offered 700 but didn't want momma to have to go to work. The income from the farm ground averaged 25,000 but the place we bought has about 700 acres and the price was under 400,000. We only have about 60 or 70 acres irrigated though. But GSP is right. We had an offer of over 600 for the place we have...and we haven't been here but a year. Property is going up all the time.