Housing market slump?

[HAULN-SS]

Yeah - I definately have too much house right now...but then again, the year is already more than 25% over - so I'll make it, and hopefully next year will be better. I could have done it a lot smarter given a little more time to look for a place, find better roommates, etc, and then maybe i'd have a different outlook. I guess it's just hard to compare it when there you could be making a lot less, but, shit, if you had 5 people living in a house paying 300$ each, you'd have a pretty big house. here, they would be sleeping two or three to a room in a mid-size townhouse.

I think my long-term(ish) plans here is to buy a fix'r'upper out in ashburn, leesburg way. I saw a killer house on CL a while back that was 2 story, pretty good SF, had a detached 2 car garage for like 220k

It needed a few things - new vinyl siding, a few other things that I can all do myself, plus whatever improvements on the inside that I could do myself. I worked for my uncles construction company in the summers for like the last 10 years, hopefully that'll pay off for me for a deal like that in a couple years.