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BAC, get back!! At least to Lewistown (it's growing, there's a subdivision with 500 units going in).

But the subdivision going in outside of Lewistown is targeting senior citizens (literally ... I think it might even be exclusively for people over a certain age)!

I guess for the time being, I will just continue living on the edge. Felt a sharp earthquake the other day ... it was actually pretty cool ... as long as they don't get any bigger than that.

Be careful for you're getting there much faster than you think; do you realize in nine years you'll be going back for your twenty year reunion Fun flies when you're doing time...and you turn around and you're looking at the face of an old man in the mirror

That will be much less than 9 years away ....

Bay Area Cat wrote:But the subdivision going in outside of Lewistown is targeting senior citizens (literally ... I think it might even be exclusively for people over a certain age)!

I guess for the time being, I will just continue living on the edge. Felt a sharp earthquake the other day ... it was actually pretty cool ... as long as they don't get any bigger than that.

Actually only part is for seniors---or so I hear. You can buy 5 acres for a mere $200,000.00-which is ridiculous for Lewistown.

LTown Cat wrote:

Bay Area Cat wrote:But the subdivision going in outside of Lewistown is targeting senior citizens (literally ... I think it might even be exclusively for people over a certain age)!

I guess for the time being, I will just continue living on the edge. Felt a sharp earthquake the other day ... it was actually pretty cool ... as long as they don't get any bigger than that.

Actually only part is for seniors---or so I hear. You can buy 5 acres for a mere $200,000.00-which is ridiculous for Lewistown.

Went out with a realtor from a central Montana town; they told me the jerks from Billings, Bozo, the Bitterroot, and Flathead areas are pressuring them to get their prices "in line" with what these areas are doing--all during a time when real estate is tanking big-time! The Montana Fad is disappearing pretty fast; anyone travelled Highway 93 from the Canuck Border to Hamilton lately? Folks aren't coming here for congested highways. One would think what they ask and what they will accept are two entirely different amounts.

Cat Grad wrote:

LTown Cat wrote:

Bay Area Cat wrote:But the subdivision going in outside of Lewistown is targeting senior citizens (literally ... I think it might even be exclusively for people over a certain age)!

I guess for the time being, I will just continue living on the edge. Felt a sharp earthquake the other day ... it was actually pretty cool ... as long as they don't get any bigger than that.

Actually only part is for seniors---or so I hear. You can buy 5 acres for a mere $200,000.00-which is ridiculous for Lewistown.

Went out with a realtor from a central Montana town; they told me the jerks from Billings, Bozo, the Bitterroot, and Flathead areas are pressuring them to get their prices "in line" with what these areas are doing--all during a time when real estate is tanking big-time! The Montana Fad is disappearing pretty fast; anyone travelled Highway 93 from the Canuck Border to Hamilton lately? Folks aren't coming here for congested highways. One would think what they ask and what they will accept are two entirely different amounts.

I hope so, but central MT doesn't have the congested highways, etc. That is what worry's me. This will probably be one of the next areas to boom. Because this area is what most out of state people consider MT to be.

I'm actually assuming that Lewistown will be among the next "boom" areas ... might be a good place to start buying for people who invest in real estate. Except for those $200,000 lots, that is. The lots on the golf course are/were a whole lot cheaper and with much better views.

Bay Area Cat wrote:I'm actually assuming that Lewistown will be among the next "boom" areas ... might be a good place to start buying for people who invest in real estate. Except for those $200,000 lots, that is. The lots on the golf course are/were a whole lot cheaper and with much better views.

They are about $80,000 right now and go up 10%/year.

LTown Cat wrote:

Bay Area Cat wrote:I'm actually assuming that Lewistown will be among the next "boom" areas ... might be a good place to start buying for people who invest in real estate. Except for those $200,000 lots, that is. The lots on the golf course are/were a whole lot cheaper and with much better views.

They are about $80,000 right now and go up 10%/year.

I think Lewistown is an obvious area for all of us coming back to the state as is the entire Front--I'm leaning more and more toward the Sun River and/or Geraldine areas--or Centerville--or Belt--anyway, somewhere in the middle of the state back in the short grass country.

LTown Cat wrote:

Bay Area Cat wrote:I'm actually assuming that Lewistown will be among the next "boom" areas ... might be a good place to start buying for people who invest in real estate. Except for those $200,000 lots, that is. The lots on the golf course are/were a whole lot cheaper and with much better views.

They are about $80,000 right now and go up 10%/year.

Damn. They were about $40K last time I looked ... a couple years ago.

Bay Area Cat wrote: Felt a sharp earthquake the other day ... it was actually pretty cool ... as long as they don't get any bigger than that.

I used to live in Daly City. Was in a 5.4 earthquake, scary but cool. My GF's cat started freaking out 10-15 seconds before it hit-goofy.

Moved back to MT a week before the big one in '89.