LOML and I are going to trip it next month from NJ to western NC to do a little recon for a week. Vacation R&R / shopping trip for a second home.... eventually to be a semi-retirement home - that isn't in NJ!!!!! About now in our lives (52) the race is getting to us and 20 or 30 acres with a loooooong driveway and a mountain view is sounding pretty good.
I don't need to go bottom fishing and so far foreclosures are not rampant, but there are some nice deals to be had out there in the 500K range. That buys twice the hoouse and a jillion times the property I've got in NJ for about the same money, at 1/4 the RE taxes.
We're looking in the area south of Asheville, perhaps within a 40 minute drive. Henderson, Rutherford, Forest City, Waynesville, etc.
Anyone in the area care to chime in?