Some buyers will ask for proof that you have the assets on a cash deal.

Expensive houses at basent rates? When? Where? I must have missed those.

Gosh, I bet that never occurred to OP! /s

and yet more and more "market level" luxury condos are popping up..

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we r being pushed out by med/tech ppl from other states who can't quite afford boston but they can sure as hell spend $3k a month to live in...worcester.

It’s up and coming!

I would recommend doing it if you are thinking about it

I’m a social worker in MA and the application is updated recently and won’t take super long! Especially as your property manager person should be doing their half of the documents, instead of you now based on the updated version.

Come to Worcester! It’s a growing city and the houses are affordable! I made the switch 4 years ago and while it is no Somerville/Cambridge, I am able to afford to actually do things now!

Im in the process now because of Covid and it's taking FOREVER. I applied months ago

Mass Save subsides this if you qualify.

Here is the deal. You can put in an offer saying cash. Have it accepted without having the cash and then by the closing of the sale get a mortgage to pay, it is still technically a cash sale. The people selling expensive houses don’t want a contingency of getting the loan. They won’t accept the offer, if you can get the loan and don’t have the cash you just say cash get offer accepted then go get the loan.

Don't have the funds - we do what we can over the years

Admittedly, last time I looked was 6 months ago. I looked on all kinds of websites, and also in the flesh.

Redfin shows basically nothing. Where are you looking?

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According to MLS, 33 homes (3 bedroom homes) have sold in Scituate in the last 6 months.

Average list price: $824,060 Average sold price: $840,245

Median list price: $775,000 Median sold price: $765,000

Of these 33 sales, 8 were over $1m and 4 of those were over $1.2M. Of those 8, only 2 sold for less than list price.

So, at least some $1.2m houses are selling in this town.

Lastly, there are only 7 houses on the market, the most expensive is $1m (which is really the waterfront lot value).

All the more reason to take that loan then.

Worcester as a city is struggling to pay rent day by day. I don’t know how people do it

2 incomes at 129k (or more). But I agree that prices have become unsustainable.

Time to get proactive and install insulation

My house is 118 years old with poor insulation. I left all of my faucets running moderately Friday and Saturday. I would rather pay a higher water bill than pay to fix burst pipes. I also kept the door from my kitchen to my basement open and ran a space heater (only when I could keep an eye on it) pointing down to the basement to help keep it warmer.

All these prices are artificially inflated. There’s some properties selling for 10x their value.

People who feel the need to own right now, are forced to pay these insane prices.

I don’t think people understand that their first house isn’t going to be across the street from their job in downtown.

I bought an undesirable house in Framingham 4 years ago next to a train station.

I think the issue with everyone is, if you want to live in a dream house, you have to eat shit for 7 years. Either climbing a corporate ladder to 300k a year, or buy some shit house no wants and work on it until it is somewhat desirable.

Anyone posting here how they’re pissed off about whatever; either 1) save your money, don’t go on lavish vacations, get used to camping and pray that everyone who got divorced and separated moves in with a SO, and buy a house - that’s your 2-5 year plan 2) stop taking mental health days and take your job seriously - become a manager/supervisor and get pissed at the current workforce not showing up to work. Eat shit and keep switching jobs until you make 100k a year. Get a partner that shares your same values and eat shit together. Buy a two-family and build together.

I kind of did #2. I took a job I hated for 80k when I was single and saved every penny I had. No fancy anything. All my clothes from Joseph A Bank and Walmart. Bought a 2 family in a shit neighborhood and met my wife shortly after. She was supportive of me constantly working on the house every weekend, and she started investing her money into the house with me.

After we were married and she was pregnant we refied- put money down on a more spacious, more updated 2 family. After this we will purchase a single family of our dreams.

You can hate me for it or you can play the game yourself. It’s not easy, it’s lonely, and you need to align yourself with people that support you. Everyone else can go f off and you are left with awesome friends and a bit of wealth.

From Boston Globe reporters Travis Andersen and Jessica Bartlett:

The brutally cold weather that descended on the region last weekend caused pipes to burst at scores of homes and public venues, setting off a scramble for plumbing and repair help.

“I don’t have any hot water, but I do have very cold water,” said Keira Driscoll, 34, of Watertown, describing the bleak situation Monday inside her condo after hot water pipes burst in her bathroom over the weekend.

Some water, Drsicoll said, was even “coming forward into my kitchen.”

The water was shut off and when she called her maintenance contractor Sunday morning he said her property was the 19th address on the street having problems.

“It’s looking like Tuesday of next week,” before workers can clean up the damage, she said. “And then I’m probably going to have to have my ceiling torn down. The wood floors got a ton of water [damage] underneath, so it looks like those might be coming up too.”

The cold front brought extreme temperatures and wind chills as low as 30 degrees below zero in Boston, forecasters said, freezing pipes across the region.

Carl Jonasson, owner of C.H. Jonasson Corp., a Needham-based plumbing, heating, and air conditioning contractor, said he’s prioritizing regular customers, who can probably get a repair scheduled within a couple of days. Everyone else should prepare to wait.

“For non-regular customers, it could be a week or two,” Jonasson said Monday. “Most plumbers aren’t even picking up the phone now.”

In Haverhill, firefighters were called Monday to a condominium complex on Casablanca Street, where they cleaned up water damage from a unit whose owner was out of town, said Jennifer Piazza, a resident of the complex.

The same thing had happened earlier at another unit, she said.

“It looked like they kind of just tried to contain the water,” Piazza said of firefighters who arrived Monday.

Among the businesses that sustained water damage was the restaurant Little Donkey, located in Cambridge’s Central Square.

On Saturday, chef and co-owner Jamie Bissonnette posted a video clip of water gushing from a leak in the restaurant’s ceiling and wrote that the restaurant would be “closed for maintenance.

On Monday, Bissonnette said the restaurant would reopen Monday evening after crews worked through the weekend to fix the leak.

“It’s a tough pill to swallow,” Bissonnette said.

Read more of the story — with no paywall: https://www.boston.com/news/the-boston-globe/2023/02/07/most-plumbers-arent-even-picking-up-the-phone-now-burst-pipes-cause-backlog-after-boston-deep-freeze/

Grilled with BBQ sauce.