Guess the High Sale in Barre, Vermont
My wife's parents are from Southern California, and in so many ways, it's a different world from ours here in Montpelier and Barre. There's traffic, the ocean, gigantic malls, etc. But, as a realtor working my tail off for buyers and sellers in Montpelier and Barre, the funniest difference is in the cost of houses.
Two years ago the median home price in their county was $600,000. Now, with the California Correction, it's down to $400,000. How the heck does the "median" person buy a "median" priced home in that county?
In Barre, there were two homes that sold this year (so far) at or above $200,000. Both were listings from our office (don't mind tooting my own home now and then). What does that mean? It means that there are a lot of good values in Barre. It means that if someone's looking for a good house in a good neighborhood in a good community, they could do well by buying in Barre.
Is it a perfect town? No, but which town is? All I'm saying is that if I had $200,000 to buy a house, I'd rather have a 3 bedroom 2 bath nicely cared for home in Barre than whatever shack you can get for that in SoCal.
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