Unreal Estate Game: South Dakota

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by COchief

I have to admit, the selections in a lot of these threads are extremely conflicting, I've never been disappointed in Rainman before but good lord I have lived in a lot of these cities and the Rapid City selections along with quite a few others have been an absolute shit show. The entire CO thread especially Fort Collins licked dick, Florida was an absolute nightmare, I'm just astounded at the picks and their general tackiness (how much siding have we seen for $1mm so far?).

All of the four below places blow the Rapid City shit show out of the water, I mean Jesus it's in the god damn Black Hills and you picked some new construction cheap piece of shit on a prairie? This mirrors the Fort Collins pick IMO.

http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...4-17864#photo0 I'm sure you could get $50k off a million, Jeez how about a mountain retreat with a pool and shit instead of a vinyl siding craptastic plywood hunk of crap?

http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...478063#photo22 Hello mountain character good bye prairie poop house

http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...-06196#photo32

http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...0009923#photo7

But you can't do that! You can't do that! To be consistent, my rule is that the houses have to be between $900,000 and $999,999 in price. That gives us apples to apples comparisons.

My mistake in this, though, is that very price range. At that range, you do tend to get a lot of places that are just big houses. I either should have gone higher ($3 to $5 million) or lower (maybe $500,000), to get either more bling or more choice. I don't think I could really go higher, though, because in a lot of places that range would just mean more land. So you're stuck with my $900,000 to $999,999 price range.

[COchief]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

But you can't do that! You can't do that! To be consistent, my rule is that the houses have to be between $900,000 and $999,999 in price. That gives us apples to apples comparisons.

My mistake in this, though, is that very price range. At that range, you do tend to get a lot of places that are just big houses. I either should have gone higher ($3 to $5 million) or lower (maybe $500,000), to get either more bling or more choice. I don't think I could really go higher, though, because in a lot of places that range would just mean more land. So you're stuck with my $900,000 to $999,999 price range.

Yeah, I sort of figured that and almost threw a sidenote in there about the range making it tricky in areas that simply don't have that budget. Still though, for a guy posting from a Denver square I've seen some real crappers . Fort Collins blew, and FL was just a mish mash of weirdness but I have fairly intimate knowledge of several areas there. I also tend to think "personal paradise with pool" in FL and of course any mountainous area needs a particular house and appropriate surrounding land. You seem to have strange choices when you go urban vs burbs for particular cities but again may just be the budget along with a differing viewpoint per city.

However Fort Collins was donkey balls, I will not bend on that one lakefront or not.