10 Cities for Real Estate Steals

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Springfield, Mass is full of culture -- and an old Victorian can be had for under 150k

Betsy of MA 5:24AM March 07, 2011

I wonder why they did not mention Cape Coral, Florida and Fort Myers area.
According to information on floridacapecoral.info the prices have decreased from 260k homes to 60k

Joe of FL 7:35PM December 19, 2010

We bought a winter home south of Phoenix on March 2009 and couldn't be happier!

Cathy of AZ 8:48PM December 04, 2010

Good
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Frank of MD 9:42PM November 22, 2010

Check out the great deals at indianapolisinvestment.com The Wall Street Journal rated it # 3 in the nation for small investors. Low prices + strong economy + availability of houses = INSTANT CASH FLOW + EQUITY

christine Rooney of SD 11:26PM October 04, 2010

I don't really quite understand how they obtain the statistics. Take Washington DC for example. According to Zillow, the median household income is $40K, and the median home price is $362K. The ratio should therefore be more like 9. How did the author get 1.12?

Alex of MA 3:19AM September 28, 2010

I live in a small town between two major cities, so I was able to buy a house cheap here and still drive into the cities for entertainment. Why pay big city housing costs and put up with the crime rate?

Deb of PA 12:49PM September 16, 2010

I think the root problem is the 2 party system we have.May be the only country that has a 2 party system and calls itself democratic.
I think India is more democratic than this country. It is country of over 1 billion people that go to the polls once every 4 yrs with a turn out of > 60%. You rarely hear of any voter irregularity and is mostly done electronicaly with no "hanging chad" issues. It also has an independant election committee that adminsters the election. There are numerous parties and most of the time, no one party gets a majority and ruling is mostly by coalition politics.
I think America should learn from India.You cant have 250 million people and just 2 have parties,makes no sense. I think this is a creation of big buisiness and they want to keep it that way.
It is high time the people took back their country from big business and these corrupt politicians.
Just like the tea party movement, there should be other movements that truly represent the views of the various sections of this society.

lamp of MA 12:38PM August 04, 2010

Everyone seems to have their view of what makes the economy go and grow. First off we have that Global thing going on which allows manufactures to send jobs to Mexico, India, China and anywhere else. Why was that necessary. Greed of corporations, stockholders. Then there was the Bush tax cuts that would create jobs didn't creat jobs.... but we're sold the same lie to get this administration to extend the Bush tax cuts. Government don't create jobs, they create a climate for business to survive. Dispite all the tax incentives, and lower tax rate jobs continued to decline during the Bush Administration. The way this economy will turn around is exactly like what saved Americans after the great Depression and run on banks. People helping people the motto behind the origin of Credit Unions. People banned together and loaned money to Farmers who stood to loose their farms to forclosure by the banks. People need to ban together and buy local foods and services.. People need to ban together and fid out where big corporations money is going.. LIKE Target is donating $100,000 to the GOP.. What for to get BUSINESS friendly
deregulators back at the helm. Their money would be better spent with the tea party who wants to turn back the clock on everything from Civil Rights to cavet emptor.. let the buyer beware. With this internet at our fingertips we could do it but people who can build a web site to track the money - the GEEKS are too busy Damning Obama for the problems created long before he was elected. We are the People .. We are the United States of America ... Obama is our spokesman. We don't need Sarah Palin, or Ron Paul to do our bidding. We need to do what the Credit Union movement did. And as you can see by financial experts all over the country Credit Unions are still the lowest fees, lowest interest rates and is not owned by any Stock Holders.. they are owned by their members. So without advocating for Credit Unions.. Were are the real people who can help avoid our country hijacked by big business - such as will be the result of the Supreme Court of the United States this year. PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE ... I DON'T BELIEVE THAT MOVEMENT WOULD BE CHALLANGED BY CREDIT UNION PEOPLE .. BECAUSE THAT IS WERE NEEDED MONEY WOULD BEST BE OBTAINED.. OR SAVED.

Lois of WI 2:07PM August 02, 2010

most of the americans don't want to get their hand dirty, those that do are willing do it at any price, and work udner the hot sun. since most manufacturing is not in america, what are the workers going to do besides farming, military, service, sales, government and uneployment? JOBS NEED TO BE FOR THE LONG TERM, BUT WHAT JOBS FOR THE MAJORITY? EVERYONE NEEDS ADDRESS THE PROBLEMS. GOVERNMENT, UNIONS, THE PEOPLE WAKE-UP....I'M RETIRED GOVERNMENT, BUT CONCERN FOR MY CHILDRENS FUTURE, OUR COUNTY CANNOT CONTINUE ON ITS PRESENT PATH WITHOUT SELF DISTRUCTION. WE CONNOT SPEND MORE THAN WHAT WE MAKE.

CASTIRON of HI 12:44PM July 26, 2010