If you are over 30 and have not bought a home in the OKC area with our crazy low prices and microscopic interest rates, that's all on you.
If you're under 30, a well-located home that doesn't need work is not your birthright. You buy a small house and/or one needing work and build up equity over time.
This is exactly what I did, what my parents did and just about everyone else I know. Now, you get all these young people watching HGTV and Instagram feeds and feel entitled to a completely finished dream home as a first-time buyer.
There is a great, 4-bed 2-bath house right around the corner from me on a very nice street in a great location with a big fenced-in backyard.
It could use some updating but you could move in today and live quite well, and then slowly make the changes you'd like and probably never outgrow it.
It's $245K and has been on the market for a couple of weeks without an offer. If I didn't already love my house, I'd buy it in a heartbeat, clean up the front landscaping, do some painting, replace the Formica countertops and then over time start work on the bathrooms and other things. You could open up the living/dining/kitchen (as I did with my house) and have a great modern floorplan in a close-in established neighborhood.
https://www.realtor.com/realestatean...2_M84640-23250
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