Life is good in Amarillo!

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

The “Buy a House… Get a Gun” post reminded me to check on this baby. It is now reduced to 598K from 650K
Maybe they should throw in a shotgun to move this inventory.

[blahblahblah]

For a hint of that good life you’re missing in Texas, check out the NOAA 2005 Weather Year in Review for Amarillo. It gets HOT and COLD out there in the panhandle. They are pretty close to the beautiful Palo Duro Canyon, though. There’s probably some nice hiking out that way…

[Bugs]

Let’s see, that’s a $52,000 reduction on a list price for a home that’s still on the market 6 months later. It doesn’t sound like Darrell found any local suckers, er, buyers for that one, either.

[Steve Beebo]

Like anywhere, I’m sure that there are some nice areas in Amarillo, but I can’t think of a worse place to be off hand. For the same price you couldn’t you buy a house in somewhere like Victorville? That way you could at least get to the beach or to Las Vegas in three hours.

We were driving through Amarillo in the mid-90’s on a trip to the East Coast, and we hit the absolute worst thunderstorm I have ever seen in my life. There were lightning strikes literally every 5 seconds for an hour or more, and it rained harder than I ever dreamed possible. It pretty much seemed like the world was coming to an end. It rained so hard that we were on the freeway going 10 miles an hour and we couldn’t see anything, so we had to pull off the road and stay overnight near Amarillo.

I’m guessing they get some nasty dust storms, too, since the wind seems to blow about 70 mph 24/7.

[Mexico Resident]

I can see that most of you are typical San Diego people posting on this board

[barnaby33]

Educated, witty, handsome, intellectually gifted, yep thats us. I’m not sure what typical San Diego people are, having lived here my whole life we are about as atypical as people get, collectively. So enlighten us a bit about our typicality?

Josh

[PerryChase]

It’ll be interesting to see the price at which this house sells at. Looks like a spec house to me.

Yeah, I too would like to know that what Mexico Resident thinks a typical SD person is. That person will be different depending on part of the County you live in.

[TheBreeze]

Thanks for bringing this back FSD. Was this guy really trying to sell us on Amarillo by touting its “5 Wal-Marts”? LOL! If I pay $650K for a house, I don’t want a Wal-Mart anywhere near me.

[SDcostal]

Mr. Young, 200K already gets you a big house in metropolitans like Dallas and Houston already where I’m sure there are many jobs there. Also, Amarillo seems to be in the boonies of Texas. Many people in San Diego can’t afford a 650K house, so I don’t see how people in a desolate town of Texas can afford those mega mansions.

An example of a McMansion in Dallas:

http://www.ziprealty.com/buy_a_home/logged_in/search/home_detail.jsp?listing_num=10590705&page=1&property_type=SFR&mls=mls_dallas&cKey=q09gv3ql&source=GDAR

[Chris Scoreboard Johnston]

Chris Johnston

I left this blog for awhile, only to re-visit and find this! Mr. Young, I have been interested in pink houses in Amarillo for quite some time. Do you have any other pink houses in this price range to look at?

The Liberace foundation must have more in it’s inventory?

I hope all you good folks in here have had some fun in the last few months.

[bubba99]

Don’t know if youall noticed, but according to Datrrell, the median price of a home in Amarillo is $111k. Money magazine has it at $77k. But either way if your were willing to spend 3 times the average home price, you would still be half of the asking price. This put this property (consertively)in the top 1% in terms of price – eliminating 99% of the potential home buyers.

To get the median home price divided by median income we divide median home price by median hh income we get,
77778/38062=2.04 for Amarillo,
493000/59775=8.2 for San Diego. (All numbers from CNN Money Magazine)

But this house in particular is
648000/38062=17.02 or 8 times the average for the Amarillo market, and twice the average for the San Diego market.

No Darrell is wrong on all counts. This house is way overpriced relative to Amarrillo market, and double the multiples by California standards – no bargain for California transplants. Unless you are looking for the most expensive McMansion in Sandhills in a half finished development.

[(former)FormerSanDiegan]

OK bubba99 the numbers are tough to make a case, but what if …
they offered a shotgun with home purchase. Then this thing would fly off the shelf, wouldn’t it ?

P.S. – If a guy named bubba doesn’t want this house, it might be a problem selling it in Texas.

[ibjames]

Sad thing is, he kept on talking about quality of life, and sunsets. I live by the beach, and every day I go down there (I go down 7 days a week) there are people taking pictures of our sunsets on the ocean.. how many people take pictures there?

He also said move there because we don’t get gallons of rain?

He didn’t read anything, he saw people talking about money, investing, and renting. Thought he just had to pull a few heart strings about how great the place was, and we hug our neighbors and everyone would come running. Sad thing is, it’s worked on so many people that when you ask him for numbers, he didn’t even know how to reply.

It makes me feel that the odds of me owning a house again… are in my favor because I know lots of people were suckered by realtors promising the joy of home ownership

I think what mex was saying about typical san diegans is the rain comment one poster posted. About how they had to pull over etc. We get rain like that in Wisconsin also, but it doesn’t happen all the time and doesn’t make the place a horrible place to live. San Diegans are so freaking spoiled when it comes to weather that if they go someplace and it’s too windy, or it rained for 2 days straight, they have a hissy fit.

But that’s why I moved here! I dread going home for christmas because I know I’m going to freeze my arse off!

Powayseller, I love your posts 🙂

[bubba99]

Don’t know if a shotgun would do it, but a pickup would definately help move this pos.

[Anonymous]

According to the following UPI press release, Amarillo was almost wiped off the face of the planet in 2005:

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061215-124703-2900r

Maybe the title of this thread should be “Life is scary in Amarillo!”.

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