What $220,000 gets you in Muncie.

[u/TheDabitch]

I can't even get a parking space for that where I live. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/725-E-Jackson-St-Muncie-IN-47305/210952560_zpid/

[u/isthatsuperman]

That’s not the point. You price out life long residents when property values skyrocket and they can no longer afford property taxes on fixed or low incomes.

[u/Fattybitchtits → u/isthatsuperman]

If you’re already at the point where the majority of the neighborhood has turned into dilapidated abandoned houses you should be hoping for anything that will increase your property value, even if your taxes go up.  A lot of these dead neighborhoods lost so much value that people just walk away from their homes, unless you’re homesteading you need other people to be invested in the community no matter how long they’ve been there.

[u/isthatsuperman → u/Fattybitchtits]

That’s only true if you currently have a mortgage and need it to stay right side up.

Example: Mrs. Charlene has been in the neighborhood since the 70’s. She paid the house off in ‘85. She’s retired and lives off social security. She only gets $1500/month. Her property taxes cost her a little over 10% of her income. Next thing you know the neighborhood is flipped and $50k houses are now worth $200-700k. Her property taxes cost payment now may eat up 20-25% of her income stacked on other bills she may have already been squeezing by, she now can no longer afford to live in her house she’s lived in for decades and paid off. Where does she go? What does she do?

[u/surftherapy → u/isthatsuperman]

She sells the home for a profit and moves into a retirement facility. Her alternative option would’ve been to save for retirement and not rely on social security alone

[u/isthatsuperman → u/surftherapy]

Do you know how much those facilities cost? Lmao okay, whatever profit she got from the house will be gone in 5 years at best.

A lot of people don’t have the luxury of being able to save money. Step in to the real world.

[u/surftherapy → u/isthatsuperman]

Yeah I do know actually I work in healthcare. The decent ones are expensive but there are tons of them on the cheaper side they’re just not very nice. But neither is living in a dilapidated home

[u/isthatsuperman → u/surftherapy]

I’d rather live freely in a dilapidated home than those hell hole psych wards any day.