Low Cost Houses

How do you find low cost houses? Look in the right towns,to begin with. Then you can find the houses you like and make an offer. Where are the right towns?

Altoona, Pennsyvania still had dozens of homes for sale for less than $30,00 as I write this (2005). I just saw one listed for $7,500! This is a cute little town (see the photo on our site), yet still big enough to have everything you need.

Hot Springs, Arkansas has low cost houses. The cheapest right now is $13,500. My wife and I like Alamogordo, New Mexico a lot, and it still has homes under $50,000. Independence, Kansas has homes starting under $10,000!

How To Find Low Cost Houses

You can look up various local newspapers online, and check out the classifieds. This also assures you that it's a town large enough for a newspaper. If there are at least a dozen houses for sale, you'll have an idea about home prices there.

You can find real estate agents online, or in local paper classifieds. Call one and ask if there are any low cost houses for sale. If not maybe he'll know which nearby towns have some.

You can go to www.Realtor.com, where you can search any town for homes listed by price, number of bedrooms, and many other criteria. This tool is a lot of fun. Set the criteria to select only homes under fifty thousand or whatever you want, and you'll quickly see if you're wasting your time on a town.

Of course, if you don't see many low cost houses, you still might be able to get one. When we lived in Anaconda, Montana, where we bought our own beautiful house for $17,500, we watched as a house listed for $18,000 eventually sold for $6,000! Towns that have had some economic troubles often have house selling for far under their listed price. The lesson is clear: make low offers to get low cost houses.

Posted by Carole Horn on December 13, 2008 at 12:00 AM

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Latitude: 30.213901 -- Longitude: -92.029363

ZIP Codes for Lafayette, Louisiana	70501 70502 70503 70504 70505 70506 70507 70508 70509 70593 70596 70598
Area Code for Lafayette, Louisiana	337
Time zone for Lafayette, Louisiana	CST

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Lafayette is a city on the Vermilion River in Lafayette Parish, in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Lafayette is the parish seat. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 110,257; a 2004 census estimate put the metro area's population at 246,160. It is the fourth largest city in the state. The city was founded as Vermilionville in 1821 by a French-speaking Acadian named Jean Mouton. In 1884, it was renamed for the Marquis de Lafayette, who assisted the United States during its Revolutionary War. The city's economy was primarily based on agriculture until the 1940s, when the petroleum and natural gas industry became dominant. The city is also home to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, formerly University of Southwestern Louisiana. Lafayette has a strong tourism industry, attracted by the Cajun and Creole cultures of the surrounding region and hosts the annual Festival de Musique Acadienne, Festivals Acadiens, and the annual Festival International de Louisiane. -- Source: Wikipedia.com

Louisiana 2000 Census Population Profile Map

	Lafayette	Louisiana	United States
Population	110,257	4,468,976	281,421,906
Median age	33.1	34	35.3
Median age for Male	31.4	32.6	34
Median age for Female	34.8	35.3	36.5
Households	43,506	1,656,053	105,480,101
Household population	105,819	4,333,011	273,643,273
Average household size	2.43	2.62	2.59
Families	27,116	1,156,438	71,787,347
Average family size	3.07	3.16	3.14
Housing units	46,865	1,847,181	115,904,641
Occupied units	43,506	1,656,053	105,480,101
Vacant units	3,359	191,128	10,424,540

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