J cloud,
Sometimes i am not even sure if the bad economic at the moment is a bless or what? The standard of living was getting so expensive and for someone that will be a new common like us, it was have been nearly impossible to buy a house in a good community area. The accomodation was so expensive for wooden house that can burn to the ground in 30mins if there is a fire.
Current, some builders are offer bigger half the prices it was about 2 year ago and now they are begging buyer by even offer cash back. Ofcourse the only problem now if that the banks are on likely going to borrow us the funds to get in on this goodlucks. For someone who has lots of cash to bring in from 9ja and can buy outright or with minimum amount to borrow, the economy might be said to be offer a lot at the moment.
Moving around in some state is so difficult that the only way to get anywhere is to get a banger at auction, it could safe u a lot of money.
About that website u offered, i am sure my partner who is a accountant and internal auditor will be needing that site, if everything go well with our interview in God name.
Good point but like u said, most lenders here are very much careful about who they lend money to and alot of people are not buying all those forelosed homes because of fear of job loss related to the recession thats going on here. I doubt how many people that won Dv lottery that can afford a house of about $200,000 when they get here. U get tied down here sortha when u buy a house as u've got all these taxes and stuff to pay on it every yr and if you decide to move to a different state, u might find it very hard to sell the house. ANyway, we all hope the economy gets better sometime soon. I know it will but when is unknown. i personally would love to grab one of those forclosed cheap homes but thats just too much hassle for me. i'll rather pay my rent and call my apartment manager if i need something to be fixed at my place.