>You misread what Dorris wrote. She mentioned 1000-1200 sq. ft. and said they used to sell "in the mid-70's to mid-90's (thousand dollars)."
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>LOL!!!! Obviously. I thought that she meant that you could buy homes during the time period from 1975 - 1995 for $1000. ROFL!!!
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>FWIW, in 1961, my parents bought a 3-story, 5-bedroom house on a third of an acre (empty side lot and land went back to the street behind) in Philly (in a neighborhood on the outer edge of the city) for $23,000.
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>In 1961, my parents brought a 2 story 3 bedroom house on a city lot in South Euclid, Ohio (a suburb south of Cleveland) for $21,000. The next house that they bought in 1967 cost them $80,000 and it was not much bigger than the house that they sold.

My folks stayed in theirs for essentially the rest of their lives. (My mom actually died in the house. My dad was in a care facility for a few months because his needs were too much to handle at home. In particular, after my mom got sick, his Parkinson's seemed to accelerate a lot--mostly, we think, because Mom had been covering for him a lot).)

I'm trying to remember the numbers for our first house. We bought in 1979 and I know it was under $100K for a 3-story, 5-bedroom house (somewhat larger than my parents' house, despite the apparent similarity). I can't remember how much land, but a nice (though somewhat inaccessible) back yard. We sold 12 years later for about 2.5x what we paid. Since we built this house, I don't have a firm number to assign to it.

Tamar