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Where can you find cheap housing for sale? Add "that are also in a pretty village" and that was the question we were trying Responding When my wife and me on the road in 2002. Leaving Michigan in early April, we saw the cities of New Mexico and Arizona to California and Washington State arriving in Montana in late May. It was Sunday morning when we reached the town of Anaconda, a real estate guide in hand that promises a beautiful color house rose by only $ 18,900.

In downtown Anaconda can fly fish, go to the movies for four dollars in a beautiful old art deco theater, drop in some nickels in a slot machine in any of the dozen casinos eat at a fine restaurant, find dollar beer bars, and buy a house for less than $ 30,000 – all within a few blocks from downtown! The library had decent internet service, and no wildlife (including bears) a few hundred meters from the main street, sometimes.

Mount Haggin, at 10.700 feet, provides an ideal backdrop for the city, even dressing white with snow or hail on several occasions during the month of July. In the meadows high above the blossoms of the tree line are abundant in mid summer, and well worth the strenuous hike / climb. Anaconda itself is at 5,280 feet – miles of Montana-high town surrounded by mountains, lakes and streams.

The first Monday morning we found a realtor and looked at several houses priced from $ 13,000 to $ 30,000 or less. The guide was the one we wanted. It had two bedrooms, hardwood floors, a solarium, and partially finished basement. Although it had been empty for a while, like many houses in the city were he was ready to live, and the batteries in the first game of the garage door is still ongoing.

We tend to treat for less than the asking price, and our offer of $ 17,500 was accepted. The closure was scheduled for June, and we headed back to Michigan to pack. We went on a morning when the cold gave way to a 80-degree days (weather mountain is crazy that way). The house needs some work, but when it was still less than $ 20,000 in total, and it was nice to be able to pay cash for the whole thing.

There are reasons why real estate is so cheap in some places. In Anaconda was that in 1980 the smelter closed without notice, the elimination Most of the jobs in the city. The prices of houses proceeded to drop more than 20 years from that point. In 2002 we had our business, and I did not like the two jobs, while working in which we live there, so I sold the house five months later. We have $ 28,000 for it.

We went for a visit in 2007. The city has been discovered, which is good news in many respects. With a ski resort about fifteen miles away, a golf course Jack Nicklaus few blocks from Main Street, Georgetown Lake and a beautiful environment in general, the population can grow for the first time in many years. Houses are arranging, there's a new brew pub and other new businesses.

And the bad news? You can not find a decent house for less than $ 30,000 or even less than $ 60,000 in Anaconda. In fact, our pink house probably would sell for $ 85,000 or more. Maybe we sell too soon …

One lesson here is that if you have a business that can move with you (as we do now, and we live in a mountain town in Colorado), you can find cheap houses in large cities. Just find a beautiful place, as economic problems for a while. These are great places to retire also, and $ 120,000 would buying a nice house in Anaconda and other cities such.

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Copyright Steve Gillman. To see a photo of the house we bought for $17,500, get a free ebook on how to buy Cheap Homes, and a free real estate investing course, visit: http://www.HousesUnderFiftyThousand.com

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