Half a House for Half a Mil – The Weird Side of the Internet

Half a House for Half a Mil – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny.

The housing market is crazy, right? I saw a sign on a dumpster for a home mortgage company and a sticker on the lid said, “great curb appeal.” I jest, but if I was in California, it might not be a joke. Housing in some California markets is worth its weight in gold, and one property in particular was sort of measured that way.

In Monrovia, California, you can buy half a house for half a million dollars. A house got wrecked by a tree, and there are walls and a roof missing, electrical not working but plumbing is, and you can buy this wonderful property for $499,999.

So this feels like a measuring stick. Half a home for half a mil. So one home for one mill, and two-and-a-half homes for two-and-a-half mil and so on.

Yes, I’m not a idiot, I know it’s meant to be rebuilt and fixed up. But the California housing market boggles my mind. No wait; the whole housing market boggles my mind. I actually read a story about San Francisco trying out pods for six hundred a month. You basically sleep in something that looks like a hamster tunnel for six seventy five. Someone is making bank off this and it ain’t you and me.

I like to keep these little ditties light and fluffy, and the idea that you can get a half house for a half mil is pretty funny on first glance, but you know, maybe the ocean is overrated. Maybe Silicon Valley could relocate to Nebraska, or Iowa, or Colorado or all three using the power of the internet they’re slowly destroying. Would people pay a half million for a half house in Omaha?

At what point do people in Cali say they’ve had enough and just take off? I mean, you ain’t getting vistas from a hamster tunnel, and if you have to live and sleep in a hamster tunnel, what opportunity is worth that? Make a ton of money to retire on, die two years into that retirement from a bad hamster tunnel back?

I don’t know, yall…

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