House Buying Market

The housing market has been hard lately eh?  If you're a buyer, it's great for you.  You have your pick of houses to choose from right now at great prices.  I would imagine it is easy to find what you are looking for.  For instance, type in Des Moines homes for sale in a search engine and I bet you come up with a lot.

For sellers, it's not such a great time. I'm wondering if any of them in our area are considering a "rent with the option to buy" or land contract deal.  If we could get into a bigger house with several acres at a rental price for now and then buy it in a few years, that would be awesome!  I have a feeling we are stuck here until my husband's child support bill is done (3-1/2 more years...wow, time flies...not).  Oh well...if we've managed 14 years, we can manage a few more until we can find the perfect ranch house on a good piece of property.

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One Way To Sell Your House

A couple in Michigan is selling a dollhouse (worth a couple thousand dollars and built by one of the owner's fathers who has since passed away) for $169,000. If you buy the dollhouse, you get their actual home for free.

Because of the housing market slump, people are getting creative to get out of their current homes. This is one way. I'm curious to see if it works. With all the publicity this is getting, I wouldn't doubt if they sell it. Whoever buys it is likely assured at least one newspaper article about it...perhaps even a mention on local up to national news at least once.

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