Fun in home touring

By Gina Duwe ( Contact ) June 19, 2008 - 11:17 a.m.

I can’t wait to buy my own house.

That’ll be awhile yet, but I was just talking with reporter Stacy Vogel about a story she’s doing on first-time home buyers. We got into how much fun it is to tour homes. I hope we’re not the only ones who enjoy seeing the insides of other people’s homes. I’m also addicted to the home makeover/design shows on HGTV. At one point a long time I ago, I wanted to be an interior designer.

Here’s one chance to see a new home I’ve written about: The high school’s building trades home that students built during the school year.

The school district will host an appreciation celebration for all the students and businesses involved. It is the first student home built in the district in 30 years.

Here’s the details:

Date: Monday, June 30

Time: 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Place: 342 South 6th St., Evansville

Cake and lemonade will be served.

kiowamohican
Jun 24, 2008 at 12:14 a.m.
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I'm not complaining. Just pointing out the main reason behind the housing/real estate bubble being formed, and collapsing. If your a buyer right now, it's great. If your an owner; it's not so great, as you see one of your biggest assets decline in value.

prevention
Jun 22, 2008 at 8:26 p.m.
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No, Gina, you are not the only ones. Having never owned a home, but being in the market within the next 5 years, I love touring homes to help me determine what it is that I would like and expect out of my first home.

I look at it as an opportunity to identify my needs and wants while I figure out various layouts and designs.

As for the Alan Greenspan comment... why complain about it? Is there something you can do to change it? It is just a suggestion.

kiowamohican
Jun 20, 2008 at 8:02 a.m.
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Now is a really decent time for buyers into housing/real estate, now that the market is in full scale retreat. You can thank Alan Greenspan for that one, when he insanely cut interest rates to 3/4% back in 2001, which created a massive bubble in housing/real estate. Now that that bubble is in the midst of collapse, and combined with a melt down in the sub prime lending market, your able to pick up a house or real estate pretty cheap today. The obvious question is where the bottom will be? All recent data would make one believe that prices still have a ways to come down yet.

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