Looking to buy a home..is it possible?

[Suz (Premo)]

St. Andrews Church Rd. Closer to rt 5 end I believe it is. 3 houses built way back from the road. On the left if your heading towards rt 235. Sign says "price reduction". Check them out.

[Gemmi]

HomesDatabase

I like this website.

[backagain39]

Originally Posted by starsmom

We want to buy a home here in St. Mary's,with a absolute limit of 220,000. After looking on the Eastern Shore,this seemed to be an easy task,but here it is near impossible. Thus far most properties are in the dumpy areas of GM road,Essex,Patuxent homes,etc. But one thing I have noticed quite a bit is a HUGE number of reasonably priced homes in San Souci. I have never really thought of that area as being "bad",am I wrong? Is it more ghetto than I thought? Or is it maybe just an older area? We considered rolling through there at varying times of week,and day,to get a better scope of the neighborhood. If we find nothing decent here,our next option is moving to the Eastern Shore,to Salisbury. I am undecided - have any of you lived there/maybe went to school there and can give some info about the area? We chose that location because of the proximity to the ocean since we travel there often and also for the low cost of living,but that low cost must be for a reason. To me,there is not much to do here,and I sure would not want to go there and find a worse situation.

If you can hold out for another 6 months or so, I do believe that the prices will be dropping lower before it gets any better.

[daisycreek]

here's one in chaptico, thats a nice area... needs work but only 150

http://bridge.mris.com/residential/r..._num=SM6702427

[Bucket]

We live in one of those dumpy areas, Patuxent Park. Are there some crappy looking homes? Of course there are. Just like any neighborhood. Just more. When we were shopping, we told the realtor we wanted to look at homes based on only the income from my job on the base. She was stunned that we did not want to borrow to the neck. Now, if spouse or I lost our job, we can still afford to live without worrying about money. We bought our house for 100K about 5 years ago. In those 5 years we spent 90K rehabing it.

I'm retired Navy with a job on base and spouse is a Special Ed teacher in the county also. We could have afforded to buy darn near anywhere in the county but choose a budget close to yours. We no longer wanted to be house poor to have an "acceptable" address to other people. We enjoy living in Pax Park. People walking to the store, lots of kids, some trouble makers of course and a short comute to work for spouse and I. Gas is going to be $4.00 per gallon soon. The area is multi-ethnic. We have had no issues during our living here.

The county has decided this area is worth saving and is attempting a general redo of the whole area. New sewers, water mains, sidewalks, curb and gutters and finally new streets are being installed. All of these capital improvements to the infrasture are only going to cause the value of the homes to hopefully go up in value.

Please don't take this wrong but, your budget is 220K. What do you expect for that around here? If your expecting a picture perfect "suburban" home with identical neighbors, it is not going to happen. Drive anywhere in the county and you'll see $400k homes next to ratty trailers with cardboard additions. Home prices are not in line with wages around here. So we can either live where we can responsibly afford to, get a second or third job (no chance) or move out of the county.

Bucket

[CMC122]

- Property Finder

This isn't bad and still a decent drive to the ocean Taxes are lower as well as utilities. I agree with the budget you have for this county being hard to find what you are looking for

[Chasey_Lane]

Originally Posted by CMC122

- Property Finder

This isn't bad and still a decent drive to the ocean Taxes are lower as well as utilities. I agree with the budget you have for this county being hard to find what you are looking for

It's under contract. That area is nice and close enough to the base. But, still an hour plus drive.

[Mousebaby (Premo)]

Originally Posted by starsmom

You know,I thought that too when I saw them. But,they are not listed as mobile homes,so I thought maybe they were modular..or am I a retard and that is a fancy word for trailer?

When I was first married we lived on Halsey Ct. in San Soucci, trust me, it's a trailer! I have lived in enough of them to know the difference. There are a few homes in my end of Essex South that are for sale and this neighborhood is very quiet. It may not look like much but our kids run up and down the road here on the dead end and we all know each other. Most of the time every kid on my street is in my house or in my backyard playing. It's a good neighborhood. Don't believe everything you hear from people who only drive thru here. Come look around, there are some nice homes back here with basements for your little one!

[CMC122]

Originally Posted by Chasey_Lane

It's under contract. That area is nice and close enough to the base. But, still an hour plus drive.

That was just an example of homes they are building.

[Warron]

I noticed while looking on realtors.com that half of San Souci seems to be for sale. That made me a bit concerned about considering that area. But there is not a whole lot of selection in the lower 200s around here.