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In an effort to mix things up and keep the haters guessing, this week's column is going to take a look at four houses available at a specific price point: $200,000. In honor of the newly opened toll-roads, we are including a house in Taylor and a house in Round Rock. Don't flip-out; there are plenty of others just like them getting built every day! (Warning to flippers: don't flip-in; there are plenty of others just like them getting built every day.) Here are this weeks listings:
 4012 Great Basin Drive - $199,000; 3,974 square feet. Built in 2005. On the northern fringe of Taylor. Brick veneer, carpet, no trees. Check the map - the road is so new MapQuest doesn't have it and Google can't find it! Awesome. |
 8506 Fern Bluff Avenue - $205,000, 2,468 square feet. Built in 1998. On the western fringe of Round Rock. Brick veneer, carpet, some decent looking trees. The map of this house is interesting as well. Notice the large number of cul-de-sacs? The streets that curve for no reason? The fact that you have to drive out of the subdivision and onto a feeder road in order to get to any retail or commercial space? Suburbia in all its glory! |
 7702 Doncaster Drive - $199,900, 1,718 square feet. Built in 1982. Notice how we have hit the three big real estate booms? 2005, 1998, early 1980's. History is fun. Located in the ultra-hip 78745 zip code (people who live in the '45 demand to be referred to as "ultra-hip" or "hip-to-the-max"). Nice house. |
 1400 Harvey Street - $205,000, 950 square feet. Built in 1937. Lyle would say she looks ugly from the front, but Chamillionaire would reply that she looks better from behind. They are probably having that conversation right now up in heaven. East side, por supuesto. |
Photos from Justin Cox, Crown Realty, Inc., Sellstate Group Realty, Century 21 First Place, and The Davis Company.
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3. Oh God. My property taxes are going up. This is basically my house, except older, in a crappier neighborhood, uglier, and over 50k more than I paid for it.
Best Hot Real Estate Listing yet!
This IS what $200,000 really buys you in Austin.
the inside of house three makes me think that maybe santorum's daughter's doll lives there.
Damn those are some fugly houses, but they are cheap.
Please allow me to point out that not many of us "78745 hipsters" live in such ugly houses as this one. This is more representative of 78748. Most of us are in 1960s to 1980s homes of all freaky to normal kinds, and then there are some newer, cookie-cutter mini-hoods as well. There I go again, defending the -45. I have inadvertently become its leading advocate, but I sure am glad people are finally recognizing its coolness. Talk to me at www.myspace.com/soaustintx and check out my bumper sticker.
I wanna house. Is there anything available in the uh... 30-40 thousand dollar price range?
Ah yes - 78745, the 78704 wannabes. Stop trying to be like us - we're cool, 45 hipsters are not, they just want to be. Kidding of course.