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Got An Extra Half A Million?

Monday, June 12, 2006 (Updated: Monday, September 21, 2026)

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If you do, you are so incredibly in luck! Imagine the thrill of owning this spectacular home in California! (Listing now missing)

Please note the fact that the current owner paid $450,000 for this.




Please note that the monthly payments (if you put 20% down – approximately $96,000) will be a bargain at a mere $2,307.

Please note there is no garage and outdoor laundry facilities.

And PLEASE NOTE the square footage!

My current motto: Friends don’t let friends buy real estate!

Category: Money, Currency & Financial

About Sallie Borrink

Sallie Schaaf Borrink is a Christian, wife, mother, homeschooler, homebody, and autodidact. She owns a home-based graphic design and web design business with her husband (DavidandSallie.com).

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  1. lady laura

    Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at 9:38 am

    Sallie,

    Uh, wow! I would say more, but I am without words =)

    Reply
  2. Bethany

    Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at 1:24 pm

    Uh. Looks like I’m in the wrong career! I should be selling those things! (Do people really buy them?)

    Reply
  3. Lois

    Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at 5:04 pm

    Flabbergasted? Yes! My mouth is hanging open in disbelief. That’s CRAYZIE!

    Reply
  4. Tammy

    Wednesday, June 14, 2006 at 2:36 pm

    Well, I believe it! When my husband and I lived in the Bay Area in California, we were paying almost $1000 a month in rent for a 500 sf apartment!

    Reply
  5. Kristen

    Thursday, June 15, 2006 at 3:38 pm

    See why we left? I worked in Camarillo when we lived in CA.

    Every day on the way to work I’d pass a sign in front of a (totally normal-looking) subdivision that always made me laugh: “STARTING IN THE LOW $1,000,000s!”

    Wow…the LOW millions. Guess that’s in my budget, then!

    Reply
  6. Sallie

    Thursday, June 15, 2006 at 9:05 pm

    I find these listings through another blog I frequent and I just cannot imagine it! I bring these up from time to time to just make people aware of the sheet MADNESS going on out there.

    Reply
  7. Amy

    Friday, June 16, 2006 at 4:57 pm

    Another reason why I love living in Northern Canada…affordable housing!

    Reply
  8. Jo Anne

    Saturday, June 17, 2006 at 5:37 pm

    This is so funny. A dear friend’s son lives in San Francisco – he and his wife bought their first house in the city – paying 800k for it, and boasted about what a deal it was!!! THe son is an attorney and his wife is a CFO of a large company. I am always shocked by housing prices on the ‘left coast’. We have it made in Atlanta! Although, Sallie’s roost is even more affordable than ours.

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