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If you haven't already, I'd recommend spending some time on HAR to familiarize yourself with what options you'll have in your price range to get a baseline of what to generally expect. It's hard to recommend any areas/neighborhoods without knowing how close you want to be to work (or how long of a commute you can tolerate).
Let me know if you need an awesome realtor contact. 💯 agree on not throwing money away on rent. Professional service that you don’t actually pay for can give you pros/cons on diff areas that align with your budget.
Depends on what part of Houston you want to be close too. You're likely looking at the outskirts/suburbs with that budget and it can take an hour to get from one side of Houston to another without traffic.
Pearland/Manvel area is your best bet. I live about 25 mins away from downtown, although it would likely be on the higher end of your budget.
Yeah you should probably double that budget if you want to live anywhere reasonably close to town. If you can’t check out town houses but even then you’ll be getting closer to $400 and up.
Hope you do a rent vs buy calculator. Takes quite some time to get equity in a house at current rates, and assuming youll be buying something bigger than you need for future plans. Probably doesn't make sense right now.
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I would recommend checking out Charleston Heights in Rosharon, it’s a very nice reasonably priced area. Outside of Houston but in a growing area between Sugarland and Pearland areas.
Idk 30 Single I would enjoy the city. The burb life may be more affordable but also boring (moved out here when I had kids but miss living closer to the city). We had an affordable townhouse in the galleria which is still less brutal than a true suburb commute. Was about ~300k at the time… maybe it’s gone up $50-60k. Mind you that was the cheapest (still nice, new paint etc) on the street (new townhomes on that street popped up around the time we moved - upward of $600k+).