Unreal Estate Game: Wyoming
 

Assume that you idly buy a state lottery ticket while getting a doughnut at 7/11, and voila! You're a winner! You win your choice of one the five houses that will be shown.

I'll give you five houses in a state, and you vote on the house you would take.

Background rules:

Assume that your job situation won't need to change - you can find an identical job or work from home or whatever, so jobs don't matter.

Consider the house itself and the location and anything else that's important to you (schools, restaurants, lot size, etc.). Feel free to do a google map search to check out the neighborhood and the area.

You cannot sell the home. You can live in it as long as you like, but when you move out, it reverts back to the state as a prize for a future winner.

All houses will generally be in the $900,000 to $1 million price range.

All maintenance and utilities and taxes are cost-neutral compared to your current home.

If you wouldn't move into any of these homes, you can instead accept a cash prize of $50,000 (tax free).

Today's state is Wyoming. Here are your five houses:

Cheyenne - http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...9_M81713-02298

Cody - http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...2-82338#photo0

Dubois - http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...7-07369#photo0

Jackson Hole - http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...8-15072#photo0

Pinedale - http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...8-24827#photo0

love these threads!

i must research b4 i weigh in

Dubois. That house in Cheyenne would be great for location (my parents live in Cheyenne) but the house ****ing sucks. I'll take the land and the house in Dubois.

I'd go with Jackson Hole - Only because I've been there several times and it's a beautiful place - but Wyoming, in general is beautiful - and it's not close to Denver....

Cheyenne for me, with Dubois a very close runner up. I'm not a fan of log homes/western type houses, but the land in Dubois would make it totally worth it.

I personally couldn't go wrong with either.

Does this mean RM won the lottery?

My rankings below. #2 through #4 are almost interchangeable to me for wildly different reasons. I'm dangerously close to just taking the $50,000 in Wyoming. It's a beautiful state, but I don't think I'd want to live so far from stores and restaurants.

#1 - Dubois - Love the house and the views. I'm not really into the log home architecture, but the walls of windows are great. The challenge with this house is that it's in the middle of nowhere. I might get really bored.

#2 - Nice house, nice views, and the Cody location is nice. I'm not really into the log home architecture.

#3 - The 80 acres is really nice, but the house is pretty meh, and it's kind of in the middle of nowhere. Pinedale has a few restaurants, but then you're driving an hour to the store.

#4 - Great views and a good location relative to town, but I'm not paying a million bucks for 1,200 square feet.

#5 - Cheyenne. I like the city access to Cheyenne, but at the end of the day it's just a big house in a subdivision.

Not yet. But I'm working on it.

That one's tempting, but 1,200 square feet kills the deal for me. I'd rather have a bigger home somewhere else.

Me too. Halvsies?

I'll consider it. I need to know your number picking strategy first.

#3. The river would be the driving factor. Fly fishing in the back yard. Elk hunting in the fall. Fresh water. I could damn near live off grid.

Pinedale, 80 acres, fishing and hunting. I'm set for life.

I always let the computer pick. I figure if God wants me to have it, it will come sometime. That, and I ain't wasting 15 minutes picking numbers in some kum and go.

Cody and Dubois are the only two in the running for me.

Ultimately I like the Dubois house and shop a little more, but the acreage in Cody wins out carries the day.