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If it was just my decision, I'd already be backed out of this deal given the reduced square footage and market conditions...but I have a family to think about and there may never be the perfect time to leave. I do think part of the issue is the season. Summer in Austin makes you want to die. It hasn't rained in 2 months. It's been 105+ every day for the past few weeks, over 100 for 43 straight days with no end in sight (breaking the all time record for most consecutive 100+ degree days). I mean look at this forecast! All the vegetation is dead. Our yard dead. Trees look sick. I had always planned to list our house in the Spring when our yard looks beautiful, but here we are. Rain should return in September so hopefully that helps with the temps and vegetation. Still have a little less than 3 weeks to make a final decision. Should be getting the home inspection report from the ILM house today and maybe there's some things I can use to reduce the price.

We didn’t get it fully appraised but we had a measurement done after our realtor asked me to confirm our square footage due to conflicting records on our property taxes.

We are probably still going to move, but not because it financially makes sense. The house we got is a gem and the previous owners took really good care of it. The yard is beautiful and the neighborhood is awesome. We did get it for a good price. And my wife is hell bent on living next to the coast again and she has dropped some not so subtle hints that I’d be in the doghouse until we eventually moved if I back us out of this. I am not on a tight budget, but there’s a limit. I’ve put almost $175k into the house we live in now. We completely remodeled it from top to bottom over the last almost 5 years. I even built a backyard office where I work every day. Our realtor has been doing a lot of leg work to get us all the information we need to list it and the feedback has been awful. I already mentioned the square footage decrease surprise which knocked about $40-50k off the potential list price. Then our realtor started reaching out to the listing agents for comparable houses in the neighborhood. It’s bleak. Really nice houses in the same price range we plan to list are sitting for 2+ months with as little as 1 showing and zero offers. A few of the nicer ones have gotten lowball offers that they are actually considering. I am willing to eat some cost if our house won’t sell for the top dollar we thought it would, but some of the prices I’m seeing we might sell it for are so low it’s almost offensive. I did not expect the Austin housing market to be struggling this much.

Yea that's the same everywhere but sometimes flip flopped since you'd think Summer is the busy time anywhere, but Austin definitely not. I tend to think we might benefit from waiting because we could get a better deal on a house in Wilmington if we waited. A similar house in the same neighborhood for the house we have under contract sold for $75k less in December 2022. But it's tough to gauge the market like that, we still bought at a reasonable price in a really desirable area with low volume. It's going to be a really tough decision.

It was definitely a surprise since we bought the house for a price that reflected the higher square footage, and the appraisal when we bought the house was very close to the original number. In passing I told my neighbor about this, and he said the previous owner had converted the garage to a finished room at some point. So we think the tax assessment sq footage was including the garage which is not finished space now. We might be able to get a credit back on our taxes though but that’s a small consolation. Not sure what we’re going to do. Waiting another week or two until our deadline and keeping an eye on the housing market. There are houses in our neighborhood that have sold quickly but most of them are sitting for 2 months with little activity. But part of that is that summer in Austin is the slow season due to the heat. So if we wait to list during the fall we might have better luck.

It hasn't completely killed the move yet. We have until August 21st to back out of the house we are under contract for in Wilmington. We'd be out a couple grand in due diligence money which sucks but if it saves us tens if not hundreds of thousands in losses from the lowered sale of our house and increase in mortgage payment due to higher interest.

Hitting some snags that might prevent the move...house in Austin not appraising for what we thought due to market conditions. Plus we had a measurement issue from our tax record when we bought the house to now. Apparently we have 150sq ft LESS than we thought. Impacts the price which sucks. Real estate man....times have changed.

Not that I'm unhappy with getting Bryce Young a WR to grow with, but they probably needed edge rusher more than WR in the 2nd round.

Super Bowl 58

I don’t know how much of a dark horse he is but I think Mingo is the next DK Metcalf. I think puts up a 60 catch 800 yard 5 TD season which is a more than respectable rookie campaign.

Usually talk like this comes back to bite the people who say it. He’s just laying out bulletin board motivational material for his opponents. All things equal I was ok with it since he was a massive upgrade over the previous fool of a head coach but hiring him also cost multiple high draft assets to a divisional rival which should have been a non starter from the get go

Masonboro area

Austin is getting too crazy. Crime is up, property values are up, cost of living is insane. Savannah is a good. choice too. If my folks weren't in Wilmington, it would have been another city we looked at.

Property value was a big motivator for me too. My house in Austin appraised at 700k and the house we got in Wilmington is 535k with 1000 more sq ft and a massive yard.

I can see it for sure. TX is unbearable this time of year. Highs have been in the 105+ range for a month straight with no rain and no end in sight.

I have a friend who swears that Michigan is going to pop off in the next 20 years

It’s the hill country or going down to the golf coast is as close as it gets

Been living in Austin for almost 13 years now. It was a great run in my 20’s especially when I was single, but it’s just getting too hot and too expensive for a place with no beach or mountains. And with kiddos I wanted to move closer to family. So I got a remote job last year with the intent to move back to NC. Had a long debate with my wife about either Asheville or Wilmington. I went to college at UNCA so I still know a lot of people there so that was my first choice. But my folks live in Wilmington, and my wife grew up on the beach and wanted to be near the coast so, Wilmington won. We put an offer on a house on Thursday and it was accepted. Great school district and half an acre lot. House needs some updating but it’s a really nice place. So here we go! Move back to NC starting soon. Terrified and excited all at the same time.

Only if they didn’t plan on re-signing him. It would have been a different scenario on a team with more good young players coming up on contract extensions but that’s actually not the case for the Panthers right now. I was fully in favor of making that trade especially given the team was total ass at the time, but if they’re going to keep him, make sure you keep him.

Yea for most plebs but being Al Pacino’s kid no matter what his age is gonna be a pretty good life I’d bet

Lol I had a kid at 33, not old at all. Al Pacino just had a kid at like 85 or something now THAT is too old

That might allow Cam to get in but I think he’s deserving either way. Best red zone rushing QB of all time and it might not be challenged for a long time if ever given football’s continued player safety effort.

There was a rumor Cam had degenerative arthritis in his throwing shoulder which was the real reason he sat out the 2019 season. That shoulder injury in 2016 really f*cked him up. I don’t fault the decision to move on from Cam, he was never the same player again, but replacing him with an overpaid noodle arm like Bridgewater was just a bad look.

Just a reminder of the misery the Panthers fanbase had to go through having a gaslighting narcissist as a head coach.