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Redwagon

Redwagon

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Think we have a few members that live in this area, Looking to get out of CA (ya ya ya) have some family and friends that live around the Lowell/Springdale area....
Thoughts?
 
MIL has lake property on Beaver Lake (toward Eureka Springs) and we have spent some time in the area for various weekend getaways.

Beautiful area, nice people, and from what i could tell, reasonable real estate. MIL is retiring this year and moving to her lake house full time.

If my MIL wasn't there, we would also think about a property in that neck of the woods.
 
backchat said:
MIL has lake property on Beaver Lake (toward Eureka Springs) and we have spent some time in the area for various weekend getaways.

Beautiful area, nice people, and from what i could tell, reasonable real estate. MIL is retiring this year and moving to her lake house full time.

If my MIL wasn't there, we would also think about a property in that neck of the woods.
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Pics of MIL?
 
I lived in Fayetteville for 10 years, I miss it until I go back, then I get over it for a while.

I was up there a week ago, for the first time in over a year. It is absolutely blowing up, new buildings everywhere, what was rural 10 years ago are shopping centers and apartment complexes.

Guy that works for me has a daughter that just bought a house in Fayetteville, her fiance's grandma is wealthy and the fiance is spoiled, so granny fronted the money. It took them 6 months before they gave up with the traditional buying process, and bought the first one they could. Stuff is selling in <6 hours of listing, for cash, and usually significantly more than asking. There's no time to schedule a viewing, you find a listing near where you want, and you make a stupid offer or get in a bidding war.

I've got an aunt and uncle with an amazing place on the north end of Beaver Lake, there are still lots available, but the Corps has a moratorium on boat docks, so if you want one, you won't be adding one.
 
Lee said:
I've got an aunt and uncle with an amazing place on the north end of Beaver Lake, there are still lots available, but the Corps has a moratorium on boat docks, so if you want one, you won't be adding one.
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Good point. MIL mentioned that, and i would bet that is some of the reason those lots are still sitting vacant. Most of those lots are "Lake View".

If you find an existing home on the water with a dock, it can get spendy quickly.
 
Its a fantastic place to visit, i want to live there. The motorcycle riding is some of the best in the country.
 
Lurker said:
Its a fantastic place to visit, i want to live there. The motorcycle riding is some of the best in the country.
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I lived right next to campus, 2 blocks from Dickson St. during college. That's the absolute last place I want to be during Bikes Blues & BBQ. I generally like motorcycles and love BBQ, but Jeebus help me if I ever have to be near that nonsense ever again.
 
Lee said:
I lived right next to campus, 2 blocks from Dickson St. during college. That's the absolute last place I want to be during Bikes Blues & BBQ. I generally like motorcycles and love BBQ, but Jeebus help me if I ever have to be near that nonsense ever again.
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I could see that. I do enjoy BBBQ, its a rally 5-6 hours from home. I really enjoy getting out to the nice paved backroads. I have some friends that live east of Rogers, I usually stay with them and let them lead the way. They know how to avoid the crowds until everyone rides down to Dickinson street, then I usually split off head to where I am staying. I may be there 4 days and nights and MIGHT hit Dickinson street once.
 
Lee said:
I lived in Fayetteville for 10 years, I miss it until I go back, then I get over it for a while.

I was up there a week ago, for the first time in over a year. It is absolutely blowing up, new buildings everywhere, what was rural 10 years ago are shopping centers and apartment complexes.

Guy that works for me has a daughter that just bought a house in Fayetteville, her fiance's grandma is wealthy and the fiance is spoiled, so granny fronted the money. It took them 6 months before they gave up with the traditional buying process, and bought the first one they could. Stuff is selling in <6 hours of listing, for cash, and usually significantly more than asking. There's no time to schedule a viewing, you find a listing near where you want, and you make a stupid offer or get in a bidding war.

I've got an aunt and uncle with an amazing place on the north end of Beaver Lake, there are still lots available, but the Corps has a moratorium on boat docks, so if you want one, you won't be adding one.
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sounds like a bunch of people moving from another state with more dollars than sense are coming to town. Should be perfect for a Californian.
 
Redwagon said:
how dark I gotta be....? I can tan pretty good!
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You'll fit in around Springdale, Rogers, Decatur, Gentry, and Siloam Springs.

Poultry is BIG business, a lot of Hispanic workers and the largest population of Marshallese outside of the Marshall Islands.
 
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Lee said:
Guy that works for me has a daughter that just bought a house in Fayetteville, her fiance's grandma is wealthy and the fiance is spoiled, so granny fronted the money. It took them 6 months before they gave up with the traditional buying process, and bought the first one they could. Stuff is selling in <6 hours of listing, for cash, and usually significantly more than asking. There's no time to schedule a viewing, you find a listing near where you want, and you make a stupid offer or get in a bidding war.

I've got an aunt and uncle with an amazing place on the north end of Beaver Lake, there are still lots available, but the Corps has a moratorium on boat docks, so if you want one, you won't be adding one.
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backchat said:
Good point. MIL mentioned that, and i would bet that is some of the reason those lots are still sitting vacant. Most of those lots are "Lake View".

If you find an existing home on the water with a dock, it can get spendy quickly.
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What Lee said about real estate is spot on anywhere in the area. Left and right coast people coming in droves. Nothing to rent either. If you think Fayetteville is bad, try Bentonville or Rogers. Springdale/Lowell is where people are going who can't afford Fayetteville now and People who can't afford Rogers/Bentonville are moving to Jane, MO or Pineville, MO.

I gew up in North central AR/Branson Mo area and after my military stent returned to the NWA area and it was not what I was expecting when I got here. It's a for real metro area now, it was comparatively middle cities then. I live on the Lake in the Garfield Avoca area. Real estate on the lake is listed as Lake view, Lake front, Lake front with a common dock or slip, or lake front with private dock in order of expense.

The reason the area wasn't more developed before now was the expense to build anything on the terrain didn't go well with copperheads, ticks, chiggars, and humidity. Walmart jump started the boom with requiring vendors to have an office in the area and brought in a ton of white collar workers to staff offices. It skewed the area very white collar. You have all the high end shopping and entertainment here. So people move in here where the chiggars and snakes aren't a problem in town and love it and won't leave.

I've gave up telling people it sucks and don't come.
 
Shoot me a pm when you get to the area and I'll give you a tour, invite you to the local wheeling club etc.
 
Broncokyle88 said:
I’ve known this dude since way back when he was a moderator for joe on FSB. He’s a solid freedom loving guy. Not your typical Californian who’s moving somewhere rural to play farmer on the weekends and fuck up the politics of that place because “I can work from home now. Isn’t it great?”

There’s nothing to worry about with him fleeing Kalifornia. He was behind enemy lines, and now he’s just rejoining the rest of his people in the free states of America, just as I hope to do soon.

Congrats and good luck redwagon. Enjoy your fresh start. And once again my condolences about your wife.
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It's not an individual person thing, more of a everyone is taking off leaving Cali going to all these different states and its really fucking up the local housing markets and other related things by coming in paying full asking or sometimes over asking price and buying up the sometimes limited supply of housing.


My mom and her idiot husband fled IL last yr (they no better) to Bella Vista, Ar. They had to make an offer the same day they looked at houses because they get bought up so quickly there and according to their realtor they were the only non californians she'd worked for several months.

Same is happening all over here and the market is fucked.
 
Well. My parents and sister moved her over 20 years ago. Just took me a little longer!
 
Broncokyle88 said:
I’ve known this dude since way back when he was a moderator for joe on FSB. He’s a solid freedom loving guy. Not your typical Californian who’s moving somewhere rural to play farmer on the weekends and fuck up the politics of that place because “I can work from home now. Isn’t it great?”

There’s nothing to worry about with him fleeing Kalifornia. He was behind enemy lines, and now he’s just rejoining the rest of his people in the free states of America, just as I hope to do soon.

Congrats and good luck redwagon. Enjoy your fresh start. And once again my condolences about your wife.
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Thanks! And thank you
 
HillbillyDeluxe said:
It's not an individual person thing, more of a everyone is taking off leaving Cali going to all these different states and its really fucking up the local housing markets and other related things by coming in paying full asking or sometimes over asking price and buying up the sometimes limited supply of housing.
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You're not wrong.
It's happening everywhere. I could sell my house tomorrow for twice what I paid for it, but wherever I moved, I'd have to pay asking price or over. Believe it or not, people here are selling and moving from here.
So pretty much anyone who sells and moves right now is part of the problem, California is just the greatest numbers.
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Btw, Springdale is a pretty awesome place. There's a really good diesel repair/hot rod shop up there.
 
I am visiting the in-laws in Bentonville now. The humidity and mosquitoes SUCK! The fireworks here are way better than Vegas though.

Happy 4th too.
 
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