According to fortune, there are now more Baby Boomers buying homes than Gen Z. The article goes on to blame high home prices...
https://fortune.com/2025/07/23/baby-boomers-dominate-housing-market-millennials-gen-z/

>no trespassing sign in window
>illinois
>1000sq foot "house"

The city is probably a hellscape

lol...

Price History :

2021 : Sold 33k.
6-2025 : Listed for $89,999
7-22-25, price dropped to $79,900

Some retard possibly sight unseen bought a crack house probably in a terrible area for $33k and hoped to 3x their investment. This is what is wrong w\ our economy. Zillow has the sale history and this is typical of all listings in recent years.

People all want to be a house flipper or landlord.

>>511328428
That is Macomb Illinois! Home of Western Illinois University, where lots of Gen Z are liiving. Why don't they scoop up this house from the AirBnB owner who got rekt?
>As of July 1, 2025, Illinois implemented a new tax on short-term rentals like Airbnb, adding costs for travelers. This tax requires renters of Airbnbs and VRBOs to pay a Hotel Operators’ Occupation Tax, which is 6% of the stay, with additional city-specific taxes, such as an 8% tax in Quincy.
It's totally move in ready as a result. But no, you're just going to let a Boomer landlord investor buy it and rent it out to hot Gen Z college girls with bad credit...
>>511328766
Did you read the listing? Everything is new in that house. There's like two pages of "brand new this that, and the other"

>>511329153
This is just like you guys. I post a house that needs work,
>ER MUH GERD! I HAVE TO PATCH SOME PLASTER?! IT'S A TEAR DOWN!
Okay, here's one that was fixed up for you already...
>ER MUH GERD!!! THEY RAISED THE PRICE SINCE FIXING EVERYTHING IN THE WHOLE HOUSE?!!!!
Everyone can see you trying to demoralize /pol/ to keep frens renting.

>>511329153
>1 shitter
>2 bedrooms
>out in the middle of fucking nowhere, you either need a 100% remote job or get ready for a 2 hours commute to work everyday
>no garage
Yeah it's a nice place I guess but who is this listing for?

>>511331018
>in the middle of fucking nowhere
It's walking distance from campus, a grocery, and an Amtrak station which will take you to Chicago (3rd largest city in the US) twice a day. You don't even need a car (payment) to live there. Fiber optic internet is available there. It's ALL BRICK.
>Muh 2br 1ba
What? Gen Zs don't need 19 bedrooms and 12 baths.

There is no "affordable housing" solution unless you're going to have the following in place:

1) Government contract with builder to build X number of homes for Y price in a certain area.
2) Government loans, or contracts with mortgage originators, to loan the money needed to people who fall within a certain income bracket range.

No developer is ever going to build 150k homes when he could easily build 400k homes and sell them all.

Every single initiative that talks about affordable housing from your local city council just means they approved a building permit for apartments where 80% of them will be Section 8. The developers will rent the apartments out to Section 8 tenants at 140% the market rate. Do you make $15/hour and still can't get a 1BR apartment? You won't qualify for Section 8. These are not for you. The other 20% of the apartments will go to idiots who don't understand that 80% of the complex will be sheboon single mothers with feral nigger offspring. As soon as their first lease ends, they'll move out, and the remaining 20% will be converted to Section 8 also.

Never allow apartments or townhomes to be built anywhere near where you live.

Never believe that affordable housing is coming. It's not.

>>511333292
>There is no "affordable housing"
How is the OP picrel not affordable? To Gen Z, who are starting with no debt. In a state with $15/hr min wage.
If you work 40hrs a week, at minimum wage, that $607 a month is a week's pay. On minimum wage. For an all brick house in good condition in a walkable city.

if a house has one toilet it isn't a house

Full time, minimum wage.
1 week a month for the house
1 week a month for food/utiliites
1 week a month to pay the tax man
1 week a month, goes into your pocket
But let's keep it rolling. Here is another move-in-ready in a college town which is very walkable and close to passenger rail. Just up the tracks from Macomb, it's Galesburg IL!
Explain yourselves Gen Z. WTH are you doing? This has been on market for 4 months. I know you can afford it.

>>511335418
Here's your two bathrooms bro. Another move-in-ready, already renovated. Toot toot. Next stop on the Amtrak, Kewanee, IL!

>>511327637 (OP)
we need to build 15 minute cities and put all the niggercattle in them. a niggercattle couldnt maintain that house even if you gave it to him

>>511331585

Keep coping, I grew up in nearby Quincy and trust me that Macomb is a shithole of a college town. Just like any crappy 15,000 population meth'd out midwest town, the only saving grace is the college.

And at that: Western Illinois University is effectively a community college with dorms and makes Southern Illinois U in Carbondale look like Harvard.

>>511329153
>>511330909
>Did you read the listing? Everything is new in that house. There's like two pages of "brand new this that, and the other"
Who the fuck cares. Its a horrible house and the only purpose for owning it would be if you have employment in the area. Thats it. Its only worth as much as tou can find a job near it for the potential buyer. Otherwise it's a piece of shit. What they will eventually do is just rent it out to uni kids who pay the rent on mommy and daddies dime then toss it to the next student. In which case its only as valuable as the student debt you can convince to rent it. It will inevitably be turned into a whore house by the renters either way. A town home is only as valuable as the money you can put into the hands of the person living in it. It doesn't matter how much you "invest" into it because nobody is buying but the investors. If it was worth that much to fix it up tyen they'll be able to push it off on another investor who can spend another 30,000 investing even more money into that backhole because the community is only worth as much as the federal student debt it can scam.

We got to this point last summer. Boomers are now upsizing on average to larger and larger houses they'll leave empty bedrooms in.

>>511328766
>>511329153
>>511327637 (OP)
getting real tired of this flipper shit

>>511327637 (OP)
>IL
>>511336516
>IL

>>511337927

>>511329153
>Macomb Illinois
i looked at google maps and it's like middle of nowhere tbdesu

>>511337285
>I grew up in nearby Quincy
I skip Quincy generally. They have a lot of nice solid looking old houses, but it's not very walkable. The train station is way out of town. And it's right next to the Mississippi river, which must be miserable in the summer. But yeah, nice old houses. Such as this fixer...
>Macomb is a shithole
I've been to Macomb and it looks like a nice place to me. They have a really cute town square with lots of local businesses.

>>511327637 (OP)
Ever notice how the house glownigger only posts crackhouses in dying towns to try to convince people that housing in america hasn't become totally unaffordable? He'll never tell you, btw, that you can't secure a loan for ANY of these buildings. NONE OF THEM. Because banks won't give you a loan for a house that requires any repairs.

You have to pay CASH for all of these properties.

>>511340764
he is a great reset shill. look at this post >>511340719
for example, he is worried about gay ass trains and walkable cities. he is a total niggercattle

>>511340764
>you can't secure a loan for ANY of these buildings. NONE OF THEM. Because banks won't give you a loan for a house that requires any repairs.
The house in the OP does not require repairs anon. Since this post is for our Gen Z frens, I assume they would want a move-in-ready they can get a mortgage on. Personally, I think the cash only houses are the way to score the best deals, because you don't have to compete against stupid money from loanoids that way.

>>511341255
>gay ass trains
says the anon who loves submissive bondage

>>511341351
Of course they do. They all do. Houses don't come that cheap in american in 2025. How fucking stupid are you?

It seems like this thread is mostly seething boomers. Gen Z appreciates walkable cities. Cars are no longer cool. You guys are pretty out of touch. Every house I posted except the Quincy is very walkable, and that was to point out why I skip Quincy.
https://www.newsweek.com/gen-z-choosing-not-drive-1861237
The theme today is Gen Z and the houses are
>move in ready
>walkable city
>passenger rail
things Gen Z actually wants. You guys are the ones arguing we need to live in ze pod (a car).

>>511327637 (OP)
is this real brick? I thought americans were incapable of anything beyond sticks and glue

>>511343965
Yep, real brick. America still made lots of brick homes into the 50s. Sometimes, Americans will even put vinyl siding on top of their brick... believe it or not.

>>511343965
It only occurs in older houses. The boomers didn't maintain any of them though and every one of the buildings >>511344502 house glownigger here posts are falling apart. Just because you don't see it, doesn't mean it's not happening. There's a reason $50k houses are still on the market. Every one is also in a completely dead neighborhood too in a dead state, so there's that also.

Quick fact: Neoliberals created the rust belt to make more money by exporting all industrial labor, thereby imploding about half the states in the country. It wasn't niggers. It was rich whites and kikes, as always. It was literally capitalism.

>>511344502
>vinyl siding on top of their brick
please god make this not be real

>>511343965
midwest to the east coast was exclusively built in brick and stone, up until the 50's. too many american movies take place among subhumans in the southwest where everything is made of stucco and cardboard.

>>511345010
Oh, it's real. Here's what the back of 813 N looked like from the old listing...

>>511344964
>completely dead neighborhood too in a dead state
I half understand why you say this in a negative sense, but also can't help dreaming how wonderful it would be to live where there is no one else at all
>It was rich whites and kikes, as always. It was literally capitalism.
doesn't surprise me in the slightest. after all, if not for capitalism, there wouldn't be any niggers in the US in the first place.

>>511345401
I honestly could not expect that learning americans can use brick would lead me to thinking even less of them. what a day.

>>511333292
I have an affordable housing solution.

>There's a lot of houses.
>Kill most of the people.
>Houses unoccupied.

Solution achieved.

>>511345484
Believe me, it's not a dream. I lived in a rust belt state for most of my life. It's a nightmare. Although, judging by your flag, you're used to the kind of life you would have in flyover country. And that's not an insult either - the midwest strongly resembles suburban/rural Russia in how badly run down everything looks, the poverty, the lack of job opportunities, etc.

>>511346221
Macomb is picturesque. This is the center of town.

>>511346776
Honestly, what really ruins the asthetic is the car fags and their parking spots everywhere.

>>511346776
this looks super cool
>>511347013
this, not so much

>>511346776
>>511347013
You're not going to convince me. I lived in towns like this. Nothing but decay. Oh wow, they maintained the county courthouse. Whoop the fuckedy doo.

>>511347013
this can't be real, lmfao

>>511347205
Well, to their credit, they realize it looks shit, so they decided to make town square into the world's largest monopoly board game. It's kinda cute.

>>511327637 (OP)
Got an old 2 story 3 bedroom in central Kentucky built in the late 70s my mom left me when she died. Was only about $10k left on the mortage I paid off over 2 years. Market values only about $200k, so it's the farthest thing from a mansion you could think of. It's in an older mostly white neighborhood and property taxes are only $900-ish a year. I love living here at the moment, but the niggers are slowly moving into the area. Mostly on the ghetto side of town near the closed factories and abandoned shopping mall. But there's a few niggers right now in the neighborhood a couple streets over from me. Dreading them moving closer and shitting up our neighborhood.

>>511347472
does the jail cell match with an actual jail?

I made 25/hr and had 20k saved and was pre approved for 220k.

There is nothing avaliable that would qualify for that loan within 2 hours of my work.

I wish i had an inheritance lol

>>511346776
Macomb would be another insignificant Central Illinois town if WIU wasn't there
t. Former Peoria fag now living in St. Louis

>>511347472
https://medium.com/@michaellorenzen/macomb-il-worlds-largest-monopoly-board-3d6aa0bf2cf1

>>511346776
They'll knock it down in 10 years and replace it with a windowless gray rectangle

This is a real house. 2530 sf on 86112 sf land.

>>511347970

>>511328428
AYEO HOL UP

>>511348086

>>511348148

>>511348205

>>511348268

>>511328428
this
>buy house for $100,000
>get killed
ill stay in my luxury apartment

>>511348311
Comes with free food delivered fresh to your door step.

>>511348086
>>511348268
I will never understand the minimalist slop style most eurotards love. probably why I enjoy spending my time in old italian towns.

>>511327637 (OP)
>now
NOW? It's always been the case that boomers have owned the most property and it's not even close.

>but if housing was built to be affordable there would be niggers
someone has created a hellscape

>>511348268
damn i like that tub

>>511327637 (OP)
>Macomb, IL
The house is cheap because there's no work for hours. That part of the state is such a desolate shithole that they've been calling themselves "Forgottonia" for decades. The town itself is totally reliant on a small state university that is in talks of closing and has lost almost a third of it's population over the last 20 years.

Why would anyone move out there? The schools suck, so it can't be to start a family. There's no work, so it can't be for that. Everyone is either dying or leaving, so it's not for the community. Literally the only thing they have is cheap land, but you're getting what you pay for.

>>511327637 (OP)
Some zoomer looking to buy his first house can't just move to a place like this. Seriously, how do you expect the process would go?
They need a stable job in the area BEFORE they can commit to buying the house.
So they'll have to rent an apartment for a few months until they (hopefully) find a job, which will burn about $5000. Then once they find a job, they have to hope that this listing (or one similar to it) is still available. Otherwise, they're just stuck working a dead-end job and renting a 1-bedroom in Macomb, IL.
The only people who should be looking at this as an option are students who are already in the area. Nobody should relocate themselves across the country to scoop up this shit shack. If that's the point we're at, then you have to admit that there's a serious problem with lack of opportunity in this country

>>511331585
>Amtrak
AHAHAHAHA
The sandburg is late as fuck all the time. The tracks are owned by BNSF, who do not give a single fuck about Amtrak trains and shunt them onto sidings for hours.

You're literally better of driving, which isn't an issue since you'll own a car anyways. It's basically impossible to live out there without a car to get around.

>>511349420
This isn't an uncommon story throughout the rural nation. Military bases and small colleges prop up a lot of small towns. Small towns in general are dying. Sometimes towns hold on with an operating prison driving the local economy.
Small towns that orbit around a large city generally tend to just get consumed by sprawl. A little further out from the sprawl you might get supportive industries like warehouses and trucking facilities.
The USA has really become a bunch of megacities clustered near waterways and other transport lines with abandoned rot just outside them. Everyone that wants money moves towards a city center for high paying jobs. I think you used to get a slightly more mixed bunch out in the country since the country had some appeal to it, but now it's just sad. Farmers are pretty smart since you have to raise living things, and think a year or more ahead of time as your whole business is realistically land investment. But wagie serfs out in rural small towns? Pretty bleak.

>>511349420
>>511350171
So a zoomer who tries to move to Macomb will fail, because it's a dead town where there are literally no jobs to be had, no money to be made, so they'll just end up running out of savings and moving back in with mommy before they're able to establish themselves there.

>>511349420
Incorrect. There are large employers in Macomb, not just the school. For example, NTN Corporation has a presence there. They have many job openings with important salary man jobs!

>>511350139
The sandburg is not "late as fuck." Maybe 10 minutes or something. The trains that are late as fuck are the cross country trains like the Floridian or Southwest Chief coming into Chicago. Those trains have been traveling for 24+ hours and have had plenty of opportunity to become late.

>>511350431
If you have a remote working gig you can move out to the shitters and live for dirt cheap but it comes with many downsides.
>you better like cooking because for local breakfast you have one really shitty diner open in the morning and then two fried chicken places
>oh you like cooking? if you have a single grocery store it's not going to have anything special
>there might be a park, or hunting, or "mudding" as they are wont to do by destroying vegetation with oversized vehicles
>drinking! watching football on tv! remembering the good old days when you played football at the local country school and remembering the time the gay that played in a college touched your ass in football tights
>these retarded country fried hicks are your neighbors (some have a certain intelligence hiding to be sure)
>nothing else to do unless you like exploring abandoned places, or meth

>>511350501
BTW, if you ever wanted to live in Japan, one of the best ways is to get hired by a Japanese company and then request transfer. (you still need to learn Japanese to do this however)

>>511350139
>You're literally better of driving
BTW, the train to Chicago is almost an hour faster than driving to Chicago (assuming good traffic conditions). Carfag.

>>511350501
Wow, great pay they have there. Reviews also say that you're frequently required to work mandatory overtime and Saturdays. Take note of the bottom right with the higher salaries. All three of those cities are located right next to Chicago for a reason. Businesses need money and money lives where people live. The population fell by 22% in the last census. That's almost a quarter of the population gone in ten years. I think the people who live there have a better handle on the economy that you do.

>>511350171
Even farmers are getting wiped out. Gigantic corporate farms can afford smaller crop prices, so they wipe out the family farms and then buy them.

>>511352279
>he went to glassdoor instead of NTN's own job board.
https://myjobs.adp.com/ntnusajobs/cx/job-listing
they have several positons in Macomb which have been open for months. They must be quite desperate to hire by now.

>>511352093
>the train
Amtrak is literally almost never on time. BNSF has been running longer and longer trains that don't even fit on passing sidings anymore. They get priority on the rail over the passenger train, which gets shunted on a siding for hours until the freight passes them. Typically, you save like 20 min over driving, but I've taken that train and been stuck for two hours of not moving.

>>511352813
Long haul trains are late. Amtrak is mostly on time in state. I ride it all the time. I'm riding the Amtrak this weekend. I ride the Amtrak an average of twice a month. I go everywhere. How often are you on the Amtrak?

>>511345401

Why on earth would you do that

>>511352565
Their offering like $72k max for an engineer. That's fucking pathetic.

>>511337927
>>511338014
That doesn't seem reasonable.

>>511353124
>Amtrak is mostly on time in state
In 2024 this route was late 60% of the time. Why the fuck are you trying to shill this shitty listing so hard?

>>511353332

>offer 50% of pay that you would get anywhere else
>why can't we fill this job

lol

>>511353434
It's almost certainly the realtor or house flipper trying to trick anons into buying their worthless bags

>>511353568
there's always the math
>rent is $1500/month in big city
>rent is $700/month in the moldy apartments of Wastefield
not a deal worth taking apparently but there more things on the scale

>>511327637 (OP)
> living in a corrupt rust belt state

>>511347013
Why are all those roads do fucking wide?
A single parking lot would solve that problem.
If you don't want it to ruin the landscape make it underground, why is everything spaced so far apart?

>>511353332
>geographical location and internal equity
What a load of bullshit.

>>511353332
>Starting salary is between $63K and $72K. In a peaceful little midwest town where this nice move in ready house is $80K.
80/63=1.27
That is a 1.27 income to home price ratio.
NOWHERE ELSE IN THE COUNTRY can touch that. Even Boomers didn't have it that good..

>>511334499
What's the inside look like? How many people are supposed to move to this town?

>>511353434
If it's five minutes late, it's still late anon. Of course the US is 60% late. This is not Japan. You've switched from arguing that the train is late by hours to saying the train is late frequently by a few miutes. Which means you've now conceeded.

>>511329153
>move to the middle of nowhere
>live among poor white trash
>2-star schools that are only 70% white
>1950s built home full of asbestos
>no garage
>one car driveway
>2 beds
>1 bath
>shitty weather
>solid blue state
>high taxes
>sold for 33k 4 years ago

this shit box is overpriced, might be worth 60k

1600/year prop tax on a home that sold for 33k is fucking insane

>>511353902
It's not big, but it's nice. And the basement is finished, so even though it doesn't count as living space, it looks very usable.
>>511348467
This house also comes with that feature

>>511352093
>Trains
>On time
>Sharing a cramped space with niggers
>When you arive you still have to walk to the place
The only downside of cars is that i can't just do my own stuff like playing something or getting some work done while going from place to place.

>>511353895

The average salary in macomb il is 18,000. It's 80/18=4.45

>>511353895
A blue collar person would better off working at CAT, Komatsu, or Liberty in Peoria and making a 30 minute commute from nearby compared to being in Macomb

>>511354100
The only school Gen Z buyers care about is the university anon. They mostly don't have children to worry about yet.
>1600/year prop tax on a home that sold for 33k is fucking insane
lol, the investor is mad again. He can't park money in the house and take it off the market because he doesn't get the homestead exemption and Illinois eats his ass alive with taxes.

>>511354885
gen z is half the size of millennials, and since theyre barely having sex, there wont be much coming after them

>>511354885
"good schools" is just realtor-allowed language for communities with wealthy whites, possibly some asians, and no blacks/spics

not caring about schools = not caring about demographics which is a gigantic mistake when choosing your neighbors and where to invest your money