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On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:44:28 -0500, BAR wrote:

Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:23:46 -0500, HK wrote:

Three bedroom, 2-1/2 bath house. Under $25,000 brand
new. Those were the days.

It would have been more in a good neighborhood.

My parents bought a 4 bedroom 2-1/2 bath center hall colonial in 1971
for $41,500. This was far outside the beltway.

I bought a 4 br 2 1/2 for $31k in 1971 in Clinton Md. My ex still
lives there. Zillow says it is worth $318k now.

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/bi...birds-eye-view

My first house I bought for $25000 in 1969 is zillow at $466k now. But
zillow is wrong on the number of bedrooms, unless somebody changed the
house. Was 3 bed, 2 bath when we had it. Sold it for $79k in 1979.

Funny about Zillow. My house is one of the bigger in the neighborhood, and
is listed at less than the 500 sq ft smaller home across the street. And
the same basic house 5 down the street just sold for $789k and mine has both
an extra 450' family room and a pool.