It's appalling that former Governor Inslee from Washington state is retiring to N. Idaho... he should be forced to live in the state he mismanaged for way to long...
@@paulconner4614 nothing but a lie. 99 percents of abortions are done for convenient, selfish reasons not because their dying. Nice try, fem boy. Also, it’s illegal to denied women health care for not getting an abortion. Further more your comment is nothing but a straw man. You’re mad that he’s calling out your boyfriend, governor from Washington state. Moving to Idaho. When creating the mess in the first place. Also Idaho has a lower crime rate and murder rate. Despite having little gun laws. Now go cried bitch.
@@paulconner4614 straw man alert. You are upset and angry that he called out your boyfriend who runs Washington state and has ruin the state. But I will debunked your lie. 99 percents of abortions are done for convenience, selfish reasons. Not because the women are dying.it’s illegal to do that btw. Also Idaho has little to no gun laws and has a low crime, and murder rate. While your gay boyfriend Washington state has strict gun laws and still has a higher crime, murder rate. Now go cried tears.
Im a 67 yr old native Idahoian. Been here my whole life. I can say the influx of people has forced alot of us seniors out of our homes. Because of the increased property taxes. My home was 4 yrs from payoff but. My taxes tripled o the point i would have to barrow money to pay them. I live on my S.S like most seniors here and else where. My state(my home) is ruined. I now live in a travel trailer. My family is here and i have no desire to leave.
@@tazshoe I understand taxes on your home should remain stable from the time you purchased. If they keep raising your taxes that is a lie because it's saying that your house is worth far more. That can only be proven by a sale of your house and you're not selling. So what they're doing is fraud and it needs to be challenged. There's lots of information online about this being unconstitutional. Hopefully Trump will be addressing the home taxes that are running people out of their homes but it's fraud. Hopefully this works for you! Also, you guys gotta keep WEF out of Idaho🙏
What's just as bad is that all the new arrivals will run for office and end up turning the place into something that resembles the liberal cesspools they just fled.
This is so sad. In Texas seniors 65+ can cap their tax rates and even defer them until they pass away and use the equity/other money from their estate to pay them off if wanted/needed. We made this apart of our legislation specifically to avoid the issue you are describing here. So sorry for that to happen to you.
@@tazshoe A good idea is to make a home an asset not a liability, by renting rooms out. That could finish paying your bills and paying off your homes. It is better than losing your home.
As a new comer to North Idaho. Since 1991. We paid the then outlandish price of 31,900.00 for our 10 aces on Class 1 creek frontage. With no money down, at 10% interest. On a lease option to purchase at 250.00 per month. With half of each month’s payment going towards the principal, for 6 years, and no bank’s. As I had then recently left the Marines. And was willing to diversify my employment opportunity’s, we were able to have a wonderful life here. Though we had to make a number of adjustments. We homeschooled, did the garden thing, Made woodland crafts, picked Huckleberries, fished. And live off the grid in our home built Straw bail house. With a spring fed water system. We averaged about 25,000.00 annually, before taxes. And saved up and had the property paid off two years after the lease was up. We put the property under Forest Protect , timber exemption. And learned to fix or make do with our home and Vehicles. Our property is 16.7 miles away from town. And prefer it that way. Our neighbors are US Forest Service on three sides. And our back yard is 70 square miles. And 14 miles the the next black top in the adjoining State. Our life is not for everyone, but our children, though now with their own families. Visit us to escape and enjoy a small piece of the world, as it was. I pray that all of you, can attain the unwarranted blessings that we have enjoyed here in North Idaho. One piece of advice? If you love the freedom and hope that Idaho has to offer. Please don’t attempt to turn it into the place that you left! Otherwise, enjoy and blessings, friends
sounds great to me ! are you Mormon ? one good thing about that religion is the fact that they are all about self sustainability. Although I am spiritual non religious, I admire that trait
@@lilaccilla No friend, not Mormon. But yes, a believer in the Way. My wife grew up in the High Sierra’s, in Bishop California, on a small ranch that her family leased from DWP. But by the time I got out of the Marine Corps. The lease had ended. So we began to look elsewhere to live? Even back then land prices had exploded. And the cost of living had followed in trace. And Though it’s a long story… We, at last settled up here in Idaho. Our neighbors thought that we had payed way too much! But with the terms that we were able to acquire? We were more than happy! There are still quite a number of people and families that are believers of various Christian faith here in the upper two Countries ( Bonner and Boundary.) Though quite a number of newer transplants from the late 90’s onwards are new agers and/ or secular. Sandpoint has brought in quite a mix of people and has become more and more diverse. Traditionally, we haven’t had a very large population of homeless nor illegal immigrants? As our base wages here are not conducive to opening that avenue to a exceptable mean’s of existence. In conjunction rental prices and with the winter weather. And having perhaps the second worst Welfare benefits in the Nation? One will most likely find these things as a deterrent to making their start here? However, to the best of my knowledge. All are welcome. As we are not dwellers of the city. We don’t really keep close tabs on all of local current events. The people that we have had intercourse with over the years? On the whole have been friendly, outgoing and helpful for the most part. Though, with each new wave of interlopers and transplants there appears to be an adjustment period? As things are still a bit slower and more layed back, as they mayhaps have to discover? I know that this has been a rather long answer to a rather short question? But I thank you for your patience. Blessings friend
Just came from there! Low pay jobs, high prices for rental and housing. The deals are done, it’s a place for rich people and angry locals, up set how their awesome state is falling apart! Minimum wage is still $7.25, make that make sense!
Only a psycho thinks $7.25 is a legitimate minimum wage. From when minimum wage was first instituted, if it kept pace with inflation, it would be well over $20
I'm in Idaho. Been here most my life. He has sooo many red flags. Moved to Idaho during covid and a year later started a TH-cam to sell to out of staters. Oh thank you for coming from another state with your pension and educating a local. He even said the regular people are the ones leaving
I used to live in Sandpoint 30 years ago, and developed a few properties there along the lake toward the town of Hope over the 1990's. Very long and cold winters with enormous amount of snow. I remember the winter of 1995, when we had more than 6 feet of snow right in town. It's an ok place with fairly conservative population. The Californians will ruin it, just like they have ruined every other place they come to. They did to Washington in the 1980's, now Idaho is next. They will bring all their political problems with them because that is who they are. Name a single state that Californians move to, which they do not ruin within about a decade or two.
Buyer Beware! Price could be cut in half over the next year or so. This real estate broker is lying to himself. I can read his body language and tonality in his voice after hist asked him about his business. He is very concerned about his real estate business. The reality is that the Idaho real estate market will crash very hard. The citizens of the state can not afford homes anywhere near the current price level without more jobs and infrastructure. Remote work, influx from other states will transition and cycle off soon or later. Then, what do you have a ton of new build homes flooding the market with no buyers. This broker hasn't been in the business long enough to know when to shut down and retreat.
Born and raised in Sandpoint, real estate goes way up for a few years and then it crashes big! Idaho isn’t what it used to be, too many out of staters who don’t understand our laws like No Trespassing!!! I still live in Idaho but moving out sometime soon. Wages are not $26 an hr either. It is beautiful❤️
Same problem in Prescott AZ. It's filled with retired Californians who want the city to be more like California. We are a cowboy town. Young families have no chance to buy a house, and we have no industry. Sad..
Please don’t come here. If you’re in my small town, a new medium size home starts at 1.2 million. And good luck finding a builder. Taxes are horrible. Not as bad as California but it’s bad. The locals are changing. Sadly, we are getting salty. Nothing but boomers are moving here. This guy is selling to Californians with money to burn. My properties taxes have gone up 3x. I’m not so happy about this dude pimping out our state. I get it, capitalism. After being here for 25 years, things are changing rapidly. Our infrastructure is overloaded.
Denver got a jump on this. It's prepared probably best in country. New interstates, and not just simply, complete redesign with little in way or artistic spared. Rail transit added during design. Now central section is mostly tops with surroundings built to accommodate.
Samething here in utah. The exodus of all these people from California have ruined this state. Now all the national parks, hiking trails are packed to a point it's become an amusement park. Too many cars on the road, the infrastructure is being overloaded.
The American dream is not alive in North Idaho. It's 600k for a house dude. Nobody can afford that except for the boomers with pensions. The american dream is alive for the boomers and that is it.
"Im a 67 yr old native Idahoian. Been here my whole life. I can say the influx of people has forced alot of us seniors out of our homes. Because of the increased property taxes. My home was 4 yrs from payoff but. My taxes tripled o the point i would have to barrow money to pay them. I live on my S.S like most seniors here and else where. My state(my home) is ruined. I now live in a travel trailer. My family is here and i have no desire to leave." 😉
I am in north central Idaho and we make a good living, and have been looking to buy a house for almost 2 years.... It is an absolutely frozen market. A lot of people that switched to remote from bigger corporations flooded here in the last 5 years. It's depressing. A downturn is needed for price correction.
Yes this dude is talking his book. I wanted Todd to ask realtor revenue per year… 2022vs23vs24 Bc we all know based on true stats ~70% of realtors didn’t sell squat in 2024
@zzzzzzzzz-111 yes.. I grew up here and have lived here my whole life. Being priced out by people fleeing other states, especially where their income reflects that area, is incredibly frustrating.
@@ErsatzGhost I agree where I am at, a couple hours south of where he is located, I have never seen it like this... Nothing is moving. Can't continue forever.
OMG. The retired public service workers are the only ones able to afford to live in North Idaho. Huge pensions, low or no healthcare costs and soc security… That’s ok wait till it crumbles. The younger 40 and under are definitely going to revolt. There won’t be any tax revenue to support the political fat cats and the pensions are gonna run dry. Im old i still work hard cause I love what I do. I work in a large public sector community and I always make sure our firm charges top dollar for all services and nothing we do is free… our public service workers in central New Jersey are the epitome of WOKE entitlement.
@wallye8713 I agree 100% All these government employees here that have been working from home for some agency that is now going to be abolished having no clue (nor do they care) that no one else can afford to live here based on what they pay. Go ELON!!
They are going to fail economically, and the MC/owner from Sachs knows it. He has seen it all before and lived through it. I'm a government pension guy too, and I can see that this is just a pension hideout for those of us who played the system. What happens when all the baby boomers die? ...the town dies too.
He says they don’t like government involvement yet he says that everyone previously worked for the government: police, military, etc. 😂 This guy talks out of both sides of his mouth
Don't they all and DBL talk it drives me crazy I'll say did you hear that & pops would say what are you talking about I'd say wait I'll show you when I hear it again it was before we had the web or DVR so it was hard untill it happened
Have a friend from High school who is hard core conservative, always anti government. He is 60 years old now and the jobs he has held is Air Force, Deputy sheriff, Firefighter, Arson investigator. So with the exception of the Pizza Hut job he held in High school he has always worked for the government in some fashion.
@rd24life Have not heard his exact words yet, but wanted to reply to your apparent lack of understanding how this could be true without being duplicitous. When one has worked inside the system and see how the machinations really are, then one builds up a distrust that is not apparent to those who live outside it. A common analogy that might help you understand better...those who work inside a slaughterhouse often might not be quick to eat the product of their own labors. Does not make him two-faced, just more knowledgeable.
I can tell you one thing if lots of people are going to a certain area for supposed safety,, then that is not a safe place to be. When too many people are sure of something,, be very worried and do exactly the opposite.
My feelings exactly. It looks like a trap. I took a look at the number of cell towers and 5G antennas in Coeur d'Allene and almost fell off my chair. Interesting that they are attracting people with guns. Guns will be of no use in an electronic gulag.
That's true now for anywhere in US. America is gone and it ain't coming back. It's all bankers playground now until money dries up and they take their toys to another sandbox leaving rest of us bent over.
The realtors are all crooks up in north Idaho! Idaho is a non-disclosure state, and the realtors take advantage of that by not getting a good comparison of market values.
I’ve never seen less inspired architecture in my life. All junk new houses made of particle board and plastic that won’t last 40 years. That being said, I like the don’t tread on me mentality.
Here’s What’s special about northern Idaho, and the rest of Idaho actually, is there wasn’t that many people. The more people show up the less magical it is. That’s why you struggle to put your finger on it. You are actively destroying the magic every time you import people.
It used to be life, liberty and PROPERTY. Not the pursuit of happiness. This guy is so full of shit. In one breath he says people here don't want government intervention, but the next thing he says is it's CRAZY that there aren't more regulations with building a house. When someone wants to SELL their house they built it shouldn't be up to government and BANKERS to decide whether or not you can sell your house to someone with for c example an owner/finance contract. It is ILLEGAL for this to happen even in Idaho. Banks can do this. The government can do this, but citizens that OWN THEIR PROPERTY cant
Todd this realtor is one of the biggest cheerleaders to tell people to buy now at any price so he can earn a commission. He is new as a realtor and tells people the market will never come down. The market crashed hard in late 2008. Empty foreclosed homes everywhere. Covid drove people to north Idaho. A lot of his clients are going to end up under water and in foreclosure. North Idaho is in a huge bubble. The upcoming crash will be way worse than 2008. Locals can no longer afford to live there. Many can no longer afford there property taxes and are being priced out. Mostly California residents who over paid during Covid moved there. Remote workers are in trouble and have to start going back to Ca to keep there job. They can’t afford there home without Ca wages. Many are now flying back and forth to Ca to keep there jobs. Plane tickets are getting expensive. Californians selling high during Covid and moving there buying cash drove the market up in mass and destroyed north Idaho. What is taking place is not sustainable. It’s a nice place but way over valued. The smart money is sitting on the sideline waiting for the crash. Fire sale prices coming. The sales have dropped way off. The California money has ended. Next comes the massive crash. I’m betting this realtor will be long gone. He won’t be very popular when his clients are underwater and head toward foreclosure. He is not honest about sales and what is coming. He will say anything to make a sale. He is leading clients to there slaughter. I hope you will reach out to him after the upcoming crash. I’d love to hear what he has to say. All the realtors that were around in 2008 that were cheerleading like him are long gone. I’m sure he will be joining them soon. I sure wish you would have asked him about the growing list of pre foreclosures. There are cracks in the dam all over. He is in complete denial. He is a dangerous realtor! Buy Buy Buy! Now is the best time to buy is his slogan. He is as bad as it gets.
We have the exact same issues here in East Tennessee. People are tired of high prices, high tax rates, and Blue state rot. Southern Appalachia is beautiful, and we have four equal seasons. We have conservative politics, low crime, and we used to have very affordable home prices. People moved in here from all over the country, and real estate went way up. During the Wu-floo situation, the average home price went from $250k to just over $400k in a short time. We have had historically low wages and costs of living, but now it's difficult for the locals to afford to live here. 😢
I'm a young man with a family who lives in North idaho currently. I work in the trades and have so much work its ridiculous. Problem is there is too much work, not enough people that can do the work, and everything is expensive now. Homes here basically fall into 3 categories. Track homes, resort style homes, mobile homes. There is a small but incredibly tiny 4th category of ranch homes where you have a handful of acres or many hundreds of acres. But thats typically all tied up in family compounds/estates and rarely, if ever for sale. Because the market is so tight the average person either needs a lot of money to live great in a resort home or they settle for track home or they afford a mobile home. Which half the time is just ridiculous as they are over 150k on many of them and never include the land. I work on many of these homes due to my profession and I recommend that no one moves here unless you are incredibly wealthy, bringing at least 2 million with you and/or you plan to also start a business and move your family and extended family up here. Thats the only way you will make it and be able to enjoy all the things he talks about doing up here. Otherwise you'll constantly be renting and moving around the area or eventually leave like most locals are. Its not an easy area to get started in. So bringing a business with you that you specialize in has a good chance of success because no one else likely does it or very few. But retiring up here is impossible unless you have some other form of income that is inflation adjusted meaning social security isn't enough much less most pensions.
We thought about moving to Northern Idaho in 2020, and traveled there to investigate the region. But it's too cold in the winter and too far from the Pacific Ocean, so we decided against it.
I left Idaho years ago in my late twenties. Grew up hunting and fishing and being in the wilderness areas. Beautiful but culturally backwards. People that I have since known that moved to Idaho were for the most part bigoted in every way possible. Idaho now has an even larger number of fear and hate based conservatives. Never a place I would want to live or raise a family.
I grew up in orofino Idaho. A town of a few thousand. It is all unaffordable now . I had to move out of state and build my wealth in California to be able to afford to move back.... The locals are priced out.
A lot of people that move up here complain about the winter. It's just a long winter and darker. If you are not used to that, be sure you know what you are getting into.
Yes I do remember ...was born & raised here. But it has changed big time & I hate it, It's It"s not country anymore it's LITTLE L.A. with the same attitude as them
Oof. Idaho is about to become the next Florida. States should regulate their housing market and vet their new residents. The local natives in every state are suffering from this migration.
Thank you, local WA state, my family suffering tremendously from mean, arrogant Aholes taking over every nook and craney crapping everywhere they go. They ruin everything, we no longer can leave, they made us broke.
Whats interesting is aside from the beautiful nature landscape North Idaho boasts (and no openly homeless on the streets) it sounds like a copy paste situation going on ALL OVER North America. Richer states and provinces being squeezed out to other states and provinces for more freedom and better quality of life...taking their dollars that go further to more affordable states and provinces. Thereby driving up prices there as well. No solutions, but definitely a pattern happening quite literally everywhere.
Moved from beautiful Wallace 4 years ago when everyone seemed to be moving in and taxes went nuts. Our home was paid in full with land. Locals can’t afford to buy anything there . We moved to high desert Az. Sadly .
@@MurdaIncorporated land is very, very inexpensive here. 81 acres is about $80,000. That includes well water, off grid living though. Lots of properties near us for sale. Perfect for dirtbike riding . We have a general , and I love it for riding here. Lots of wildlife, bears, wolves, deer, antelope etc. But is is considered the “ Wild West” and very interesting characters. If you like wind, dirt and on the hot side some months, this is the place for you. We do get snow , and below 0 (-5) a few times in the Jan/Feb months, but nothing like beautiful Wallace Idaho. Taxes for 40 acres here on our place is $196 a year. I’m a mountain girl and prefer Idaho . But not the chaos that was coming into our little town. Closed my shop, sold our two homes, packed up , and moved here. This night skies are amazing. Probably my favorite thing about living here , besides low taxes. Shopping is the pits. Scottsdale is about four hours from us, and considered to be in the valley. We are almost 6000 feet up. We are probably the only ones that have beautiful grass. That’s because we worked hard at planting it , and caring for it. We planted trees and many flowers. You can grow food very easily here . I was quite surprised . Brought in gravel to help with the dust , and mud during the monsoons. Which I love. Our neighbors call all the “ trees “on our property “trees “. I think they’re pushing it. I called them pygmy bushes. You don’t know what real trees are, until you lived in the mountains of Idaho near Montana. 😉🤭
@@JudyAnn17 I can tell you're near or in the White Mountains lol i used to live there. If you are Mormon and can take the heat and Meth plague then you're good. I left and i will Never go back.
It's amazing, these people that are "fleeing," and they don't even truly understand what they're fleeing from. They think they know, but clearly they are clueless.
City people moving to farm states has only one outcome, if you are rich or if you are among those doing-OK. They will get full of the view and their fantasy of rural idyll and then leave, having jacked up the whole cost of life in that rural state.
Paranoid pearl clutchers, irony is living in these remote desolate is really unsafe because you’re so far away from level 1 trauma centers and there are a bunch of fatal car accidents all the time.
Leave taxes alone because people don't like government intervention ? Taxes are government interference. Sounds like a real estate agent. Lots of this is bullshit.
So all the people who made their livings and PENSIONS "protecting us all and keeping us safe" are now banding together and hiding out near the northern border in quaking fear due to their failures? Give those pensions back to the taxpayers who paid their salaries and PENSIONS who couldn't afford to leave!
@@poohsblusteryday8592 Some of the most high paying jobs, comparatively, where no matter HOW incompetent, you can't get fired. Now gentrifying the last soulful places in the country. OH BOY! Big Tech is coming! ..... God help you native folks.
Exactly, law enforcement extorts weak politicians and does their blue flu for to demand extravagant salaries and pensions and then perpetuate the narrative that said place is “dangerous”
What he's saying is half true. There are tons of meth/crackheads. Many law enforcement know who they are. So, if you have a confrontation? And need to defend yourself? You're good. There are a lot of moose, cougars, bears and many day hikers from out of town have no idea about this. In winter in Morton, Lake Pend Orielle, Bonners Ferry? Folks use their snowmobiles to get to town for basic groceries. It's not just cold, it's damn cold. North Idaho is very racist. If you are anti guns? Do Not Move There. Is it one of thee most gorgeous places on Earth? Yes. Yes, yes, yes. It is. If I could own only one large area of the US? It would be Northern Idaho. It's THAT BEAUTIFUL. So if you decide to buy here? Don't mess anything up!!! ✌️
SityClicker1- why? Ppl coming from CA wouldn’t they be cold? I’d luv to know the reasons besides the fires …unless it’s for nuke sit then I get it… bunkers likely
AI says this about it: 95% white: North Idaho is considered very conservative, with a significant presence of far-right and extremist political views. The area has a history of association with white supremacy and anti-government extremism. Over the years, it has become a destination for conservative "Christian patriots" moving from more populated areas. This influx has contributed to reinforcing the conservative political landscape in the region
Idaho Large concentration of Retired cops Or fired cops. Would be interesting to see how they treat people now. People may forgive but they don't forget.
Love living in north idaho. The winters are brutal though. Its solid 4-5 months of dreary no sun, cloudy, cold,snow. But summers are omg levels of awesomeness. The mtns of north Idaho are a spiritual experience though..
It's already here in Texa-Fornia! There are houses in my neighborhood ( 1 hour north of crap-hole Austin) on market for $175K, and that's less than half of what they were selling for two years ago.
I follow like 10-20 of this Idaho realtors with TH-cam channels. 70 percent of their videos are marketed towards CA ppl. With the keywords and everything. It is a money grab for the realtors. They only show the 700k+ properties. Absolutely disgusting and greedy.
I follow different realtors on TH-cam too, and you are 100% correct! They moved to Idaho in 2019 to get away from the lock downs. His wife was a realtor at the time, and then he became a realtor. We all know what Covid did to the Idaho market. These realtors are propping up the market, but their time is running out. You can hear it in his voice and see it on his face. It simply isn't sustainable!
I left north Idaho over 20 years ago because there was an influx of out of state people who brought the same failed ideas from whare they escaped from, house got out of control inspection costs added up, you have to have money to even think about getting into a home the local young people have know Chance to ever getting into a home
My grandson lives in northern Idaho. He is in the construction business and a lot of celebrities in the leads with a lot of money are building a lot of big houses in northern Idaho. He loves Idaho and he said he'll never leave.
It’s too bad in America a “strong and healthy market” means high housing prices. The city with the lowest cost of living should be the strongest and healthiest. We have it backwards.
Don't know about now, but several years ago a number of out-of-state companies were buying up every affordable house to turn into rentals too - and that has helped drive up prices... 😢
I am an Idaho Land broker, 40+ years. I love CA buyers, after about 2 years the wife tells the husband that she is going back to CA and if he wants to stay married he must sell and go back with her. So then I get another sale and sell it to an new CA buyer. One lady wanted to sue the Coeur d Alene Chamber of Commerce because when they bought in the summer, they were not told that it snowed in North Idaho in the winter. Idaho is what I call a "freedom state". Kingston, Idaho 83839. In my county there are over 600 miles of mine tunnels, it is called the Silver Valley.
those sound like the rich liberal idiots. im from CA and been saving up hoping for the chance to move to idaho for the freedom, safety and gun rights. please do everythign you can to filter out the liberals and keep them from buying anything in idaho. thank you for your service.
Well, Washington, Oregon, California, . . . there goes the neighborhood Coeur d’Alene is a beautiful place. It’s sad that long time residents are losing their way of life. Idaho is a great place to live. I hope it stays that way
Todd you should do the same for Montana. I’m a lifelong Montanan and retired. My husband and I would like to move closer to our kids across the state. We can’t afford it. We can’t afford the rent either if we were to sell our modest home that we already have. Property taxes are outrageous and locals can’t afford those either.
People were moving to Idaho and nevada because it was cheap compared to the neighboring states of Cali and Washington…not so much anymore. The only buyers are remote tech workers and investors here
I too am a Realtor here in Coeur d’ Alene, I’ve lived here my whole life. I’ve been watching your channel for awhile now and I’m constantly trying to gauge the future of the market based on nationwide trends. But North Idaho is special, unique in fact, where it is such a locally influenced market. People do keep coming, I actually have never sold someone’s home because they are relocating. They are all just coming over here. I also hold my license in Spokane Washington, and the price differences to comparable properties are VASTLY different. Spokane is our neighboring city, and the prices are much lower. Idaho is the dream, I get it. I am also very biased as this place is in my blood.
I live in Coeur d’Alene Idaho, and have lived here since March 2001. I moved here from San Jose California and bought my first three bedroom two bath house for $103,000. It used to be great here if you wanted a slower pace of life and like the outdoors. But now it’s a completely different place. A lot of people have moved here that aren’t from the area and the price of housing is ridiculous in comparison to the wages. It took me a long time to figure out how to make money over here coming from the Bay Area. But when you do, life can still be pretty good over here in comparison. My biggest complaint these days is how packed it is! I used to be able to go to the grocery store and walk right up to the register without a line . It had a very small town feel back then. Now it’s packed to the gills and tensions can run high, especially from the people that have lived here all their lives.
There needs to be some kind of law that if you move from a another state, you have to wait 8-10 years before you can vote in that new state (and that wait period restarts every time you move to another state). That way you don't get people bouncing from the state they messed up to another state and messing that state up too. They also need to make it where you can't put a double and triple offer on a house. The person next to us moved in from another state and paid double it's worth. Now prices are going up in this area. - 4th Gen Okie raising 5th Gen Okies in a 3rd Gen home.
You picked a great state!!! I have a lot of family in northern Idaho, I’ve loved Idaho since I was a child, my Mom grew up in Priest River, Idaho. I currently live in Fish Haven Idaho, it’s in southeastern part of the state, and it’s beautiful here, I live at the top a mountain looking down on Bear Lake!! 🥰🙏🏻👏🏼
The Silver Valley has been a designated superfund clean-up site for decades. The river that feeds Lake Coeur d Alene continues to carry toxins directly from the Silver Valley into the lake. The lake pollution is not limited to the south end of the lake. The inflow is from the river at the south end of the lake. The outflow is a river at the North end of the lake.... figure it out. Seasonally - what's on the bottom of a lake rises to the top. Microfine particles and gasses are released into the upper water layers of the lake and into the air..... that's how lakes work. There are many state and federal reports available online that discuss what we are dealing with here. Detailed information down to what toxins they're finding in the fish in different parts of the lake. Lead and Cadmium. In addition - the increased population and increased runoff of yard chemicals etc is adding a new level of pollution to the lake. Yes, it's pretty to look at... just seems newcomers would take a few minutes to read and understand all the reasons why this area did not grow much until very recently. One of the newer reports advises those in contact with Coeur d Alene Lake water or the sand on its banks to wash off before entering their cars or houses. Do not eat food without washing your hands and launder towels, beach blankets etc asap to remove the toxins.
You guys need to be very vigilant. All those new comer will get into local politics and government. And start to turn your town. And state into the failure they are running from. The locals need to be united and reject political change. And put in homestead exemption. As well as property tax by brackets. For example 300k family home pay 0.2% tax, 1 mil home pays 2%
This is already happening in north Idaho, Priest River school district has experienced exactly what you are talking about with politics. Property taxes have become a real big issue, and HOA's are out of control.
I live a half hour west of Coer d'Alene. It’s beautiful and great to visit but I have a much nicer house and lower cost of living in Spokane. I think I'll stick to visiting the area and keep more of my money.
23:50 Maybe 5 acre lots in Idaho are popular because those who can are preparing for a bit of a societal collapse? Because of hyperinflation or peak oil or whatever, it’s useful to have the option to be able to grow your own food and be away from a lot of people.
The gov't will be coming to kill your animals and confiscate everything else. They already have many places. Most notably in California. Welcome to the New World Order
I heard the 5 acre lots were to limit overcrowding, traffic, and stress on the infrastructure. It makes for great areas, but because it limits how many houses can be built, it inadvertently causes higher prices.
Ooh another area of the country, i appreciate you reaching out to other people and hosting their areas too, this was interesting Can you host a new england channel person sometime?
Careful, listen to the interviewer and HEAR the answers PLEASE!!! That math ain't mathing. $1400 rent, our house almost doubled in value since we bought it 10 years ago. If peace and if Jesus is what your looking for well I think you can find that in a lot of other more affordable places. Just move to the outskirts of town, them woke folk will let you be. Oh yes we do have crime, and homeless people, and PillBillys galore, no matter what they tell you.
The guy from Idaho is plenty dangerous to people who don't look or think like he does. And he wanted to be very clear about that while leaving room to claim that he didn't say anything specific. But he definitely intended for you to read between the lines. However, I'll give him credit for removing himself from the melting pot of our society. He wants to create a "sundown town" with his other militarist bros. But be warned, just because you may look like him doesn't mean that your ideas and beliefs will be tolerated by him and his crew.
and thats a good thing. some people want safety and cleanliness where they live. theres nothing wrong with that. stay in your crime infested jungle. you dont have to ruin our communities.
Yeah, the pay sucks. I am a conservative, but there is no black and white. Red states have no labor representation, i.e. unions. I have worked in both Arizona and Utah. Also, worked as a union carpenter in Seattle. Had a guy come from Idaho as a Iron worker foreman making only $25.00 per hour. Union journeyman carpenter in Seattle makes $61.00 per hour plus benefits. I was from Spokane/Post Fall and had to go to Seattle to work.. I didn't have a 4 year degree. Now retired in Southern Utah.
@@user-im6fy4qp6m bs our econ is full of collusion across the board. lots of little feifdoms. capitalism is rigged like all systems for the uber wealthy and connected
@user-im6fy4qp6m I don't know you field of work, but we don't have capitalism when companies loses are socialized. Apart from that; labor has smallest % of GDP or gdi since the 1920's. And even if we did have capitalism, workers still need representation. Red states have no problem hiring illegals. I KNOW BECAUSE THEY HAVE TOLD ME.
I've lived in Spokane, Wa just over the border all my life and the crime and homelessness just keeps rising every year. We currently for the past 20 years live on the outskirts of the city which is much better but still not out far enough. I sure would love to live in Coeur d' Alene, Id if I could, maybe someday.
Northwestern Montana has seen a massive influx of people from 'blue states' as well. The problems are the same. Those who are natives don't make a lot of money and therefore the influx of money, the rising home prices, has made the cost of living prohibitive for long-timers. And, those who came here before the land rush started about 5 years ago, are now missing the wildness of the place ... there are homes, McMansions on every mountainside, crammed in along the lakes, and those who've moved in more recently love to put fences and 'no trespassing signs everywhere. It used to not be like that! Certainly, we are less congested than the influx to places like Florida, Texas, etc., but it seems anywhere that has either natural beauty, or warm sunny weather, is being overrun!
It's appalling that former Governor Inslee from Washington state is retiring to N. Idaho... he should be forced to live in the state he mismanaged for way to long...
You mean the state that Idaho care flights women to because they are not allowed to save their lives
@@paulconner4614 nothing but a lie. 99 percents of abortions are done for convenient, selfish reasons not because their dying. Nice try, fem boy. Also, it’s illegal to denied women health care for not getting an abortion. Further more your comment is nothing but a straw man. You’re mad that he’s calling out your boyfriend, governor from Washington state. Moving to Idaho. When creating the mess in the first place. Also Idaho has a lower crime rate and murder rate. Despite having little gun laws. Now go cried bitch.
@@paulconner4614 straw man alert. You are upset and angry that he called out your boyfriend who runs Washington state and has ruin the state. But I will debunked your lie. 99 percents of abortions are done for convenience, selfish reasons. Not because the women are dying.it’s illegal to do that btw. Also Idaho has little to no gun laws and has a low crime, and murder rate. While your gay boyfriend Washington state has strict gun laws and still has a higher crime, murder rate. Now go cried tears.
Plenty of democrat states to kill your baby in. Here's a thought, don't be a HO and close your dam smelly legs! @@paulconner4614
Sorry for Idaho but glad he's gone.
Im a 67 yr old native Idahoian. Been here my whole life. I can say the influx of people has forced alot of us seniors out of our homes. Because of the increased property taxes. My home was 4 yrs from payoff but. My taxes tripled o the point i would have to barrow money to pay them. I live on my S.S like most seniors here and else where. My state(my home) is ruined. I now live in a travel trailer. My family is here and i have no desire to leave.
So sorry
@@tazshoe I understand taxes on your home should remain stable from the time you purchased. If they keep raising your taxes that is a lie because it's saying that your house is worth far more. That can only be proven by a sale of your house and you're not selling. So what they're doing is fraud and it needs to be challenged. There's lots of information online about this being unconstitutional. Hopefully Trump will be addressing the home taxes that are running people out of their homes but it's fraud. Hopefully this works for you! Also, you guys gotta keep WEF out of Idaho🙏
What's just as bad is that all the new arrivals will run for office and end up turning the place into something that resembles the liberal cesspools they just fled.
This is so sad. In Texas seniors 65+ can cap their tax rates and even defer them until they pass away and use the equity/other money from their estate to pay them off if wanted/needed. We made this apart of our legislation specifically to avoid the issue you are describing here. So sorry for that to happen to you.
@@tazshoe A good idea is to make a home an asset not a liability, by renting rooms out. That could finish paying your bills and paying off your homes. It is better than losing your home.
As a new comer to North Idaho. Since 1991.
We paid the then outlandish price of 31,900.00 for our 10 aces on Class 1 creek frontage.
With no money down, at 10% interest. On a lease option to purchase at 250.00 per month.
With half of each month’s payment going towards the principal, for 6 years, and no bank’s.
As I had then recently left the Marines.
And was willing to diversify my employment opportunity’s, we were able to have a wonderful life here.
Though we had to make a number of adjustments.
We homeschooled, did the garden thing,
Made woodland crafts, picked Huckleberries, fished.
And live off the grid in our home built Straw bail house.
With a spring fed water system.
We averaged about 25,000.00 annually, before taxes.
And saved up and had the property paid off two years after the lease was up.
We put the property under Forest Protect , timber exemption.
And learned to fix or make do with our home and Vehicles.
Our property is 16.7 miles away from town.
And prefer it that way.
Our neighbors are US Forest Service on three sides. And our back yard is 70 square miles.
And 14 miles the the next black top in the adjoining State.
Our life is not for everyone, but our children, though now with their own families.
Visit us to escape and enjoy a small piece of the world, as it was.
I pray that all of you, can attain the unwarranted blessings that we have enjoyed here in North Idaho.
One piece of advice?
If you love the freedom and hope that Idaho has to offer.
Please don’t attempt to turn it into the place that you left!
Otherwise, enjoy and blessings, friends
Bonners Ferry
❤
sounds great to me ! are you Mormon ? one good thing about that religion is the fact that they are all about self sustainability. Although I am spiritual non religious, I admire that trait
@ not Mormon
@@lilaccilla
No friend, not Mormon.
But yes, a believer in the Way.
My wife grew up in the High Sierra’s, in Bishop California, on a small ranch that her family leased from DWP.
But by the time I got out of the Marine Corps.
The lease had ended. So we began to look elsewhere to live?
Even back then land prices had exploded.
And the cost of living had followed in trace.
And
Though it’s a long story…
We, at last settled up here in Idaho.
Our neighbors thought that we had payed way too much!
But with the terms that we were able to acquire?
We were more than happy!
There are still quite a number of people and families that are believers of various Christian faith here in the upper two Countries ( Bonner and Boundary.)
Though quite a number of newer transplants from the late 90’s onwards are new agers and/ or secular.
Sandpoint has brought in quite a mix of people and has become more and more diverse.
Traditionally, we haven’t had a very large population of homeless nor illegal immigrants? As our base wages here are not conducive to opening that avenue
to a exceptable mean’s of existence.
In conjunction rental prices and with the winter weather.
And having perhaps the second worst Welfare benefits in the Nation?
One will most likely find these things as a deterrent to making their start here?
However, to the best of my knowledge. All are welcome.
As we are not dwellers of the city.
We don’t really keep close tabs on all of local current events.
The people that we have had intercourse with over the years?
On the whole have been friendly, outgoing and helpful for the most part.
Though, with each new wave of interlopers and transplants there appears to be an adjustment period?
As things are still a bit slower and more layed back, as they mayhaps have to discover?
I know that this has been a rather long answer to a rather short question?
But I thank you for your patience.
Blessings friend
Just came from there! Low pay jobs, high prices for rental and housing. The deals are done, it’s a place for rich people and angry locals, up set how their awesome state is falling apart! Minimum wage is still $7.25, make that make sense!
Thanks for sharing your experience.
Just like every state now!! Low wages & high rent/mortgage
Only a psycho thinks $7.25 is a legitimate minimum wage. From when minimum wage was first instituted, if it kept pace with inflation, it would be well over $20
It's a fact 7.25 minimum wage and housing is unaffordable
$7.25?
In 2025?
I'm in Idaho. Been here most my life. He has sooo many red flags. Moved to Idaho during covid and a year later started a TH-cam to sell to out of staters. Oh thank you for coming from another state with your pension and educating a local. He even said the regular people are the ones leaving
@dougrobertson555 No.
❤😪💔Same problem hhere in Prescott, AZ.Longtime Licals Knocked out of town.💔
@@dougrobertson555 dang dude you called it. I’ll bet they ride tandem
It happens everywhere that's deemed "Desirable ". The problem is the local, greedy, politicans .
@@dougrobertson555isn't he a former LEO?
I used to live in Sandpoint 30 years ago, and developed a few properties there along the lake toward the town of Hope over the 1990's.
Very long and cold winters with enormous amount of snow. I remember the winter of 1995, when we had more than 6 feet of snow right in town.
It's an ok place with fairly conservative population. The Californians will ruin it, just like they have ruined every other place they come to. They did to Washington in the 1980's, now Idaho is next. They will bring all their political problems with them because that is who they are. Name a single state that Californians move to, which they do not ruin within about a decade or two.
Kansas file for Bankruptcy under Republican Governor Brownback
Let me know if you need more examples.
Im a history junkie
Yep, Washington is RUINED and there is no where to run to.
That is the life I like and a lot of snow I live for it
We don't have much snow here anymore.
Buyer Beware! Price could be cut in half over the next year or so. This real estate broker is lying to himself. I can read his body language and tonality in his voice after hist asked him about his business. He is very concerned about his real estate business. The reality is that the Idaho real estate market will crash very hard. The citizens of the state can not afford homes anywhere near the current price level without more jobs and infrastructure. Remote work, influx from other states will transition and cycle off soon or later. Then, what do you have a ton of new build homes flooding the market with no buyers. This broker hasn't been in the business long enough to know when to shut down and retreat.
Absolutely, same in Montana
Same in Tennessee
Very True...the California Rush to WA in the 90's slammed into the GFC
Born and raised in Sandpoint, real estate goes way up for a few years and then it crashes big! Idaho isn’t what it used to be, too many out of staters who don’t understand our laws like No Trespassing!!! I still live in Idaho but moving out sometime soon. Wages are not $26 an hr either. It is beautiful❤️
Same in northern Maine
oh how novel a californian in north idaho, what a unique and insightful perspective that everyone should listen to lmao
@@krilin31 no kidding. Lol
Same problem in Prescott AZ. It's filled with retired Californians who want the city to be more like California. We are a cowboy town. Young families have no chance to buy a house, and we have no industry. Sad..
Pretty much every major US firearms maker has manufacturing facility in Prescott. Loads of training too.
Don’t blame us, blame the liberal Jewish shmucks from the East Coast that moved to California and kicked us out.
Prescott has other industries too.
It wasn't always a cowboy town.
@
How far back are you talking about? Lifelong Arizonans are very familiar with Prescott and its history.
After the collapse is when you find out what idaho really is.
And they will not like us!
@@desireehann8990don’t like us!
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Please don’t come here. If you’re in my small town, a new medium size home starts at 1.2 million. And good luck finding a builder. Taxes are horrible. Not as bad as California but it’s bad.
The locals are changing. Sadly, we are getting salty. Nothing but boomers are moving here. This guy is selling to Californians with money to burn. My properties taxes have gone up 3x.
I’m not so happy about this dude pimping out our state. I get it, capitalism. After being here for 25 years, things are changing rapidly. Our infrastructure is overloaded.
Yep. I am from there and the traffic is horrible. The topography makes the traffic even more difficult. I looked at moving back; no thanks.
What you’re describing is happening all over the country.
Denver got a jump on this. It's prepared probably best in country. New interstates, and not just simply, complete redesign with little in way or artistic spared. Rail transit added during design. Now central section is mostly tops with surroundings built to accommodate.
@@lukewarme9121 we got 20 million illegal invaders the past few years so that has displaced a lot and is having shockwaves in every state
Samething here in utah. The exodus of all these people from California have ruined this state. Now all the national parks, hiking trails are packed to a point it's become an amusement park. Too many cars on the road, the infrastructure is being overloaded.
The American dream is not alive in North Idaho. It's 600k for a house dude. Nobody can afford that except for the boomers with pensions. The american dream is alive for the boomers and that is it.
@@shootermcgavin4999 there no house worth over 300,00$ because of the material that is used osb ,sheet rock, 2x6 , a lot of crap material no quality
"Im a 67 yr old native Idahoian. Been here my whole life. I can say the influx of people has forced alot of us seniors out of our homes. Because of the increased property taxes. My home was 4 yrs from payoff but. My taxes tripled o the point i would have to barrow money to pay them. I live on my S.S like most seniors here and else where. My state(my home) is ruined. I now live in a travel trailer. My family is here and i have no desire to leave." 😉
26.00 an hour average? Complete horse shit
@ yes, skilled people need payed that want a job , plus I am looking for a good job?
Most "Boomers" aren't in a position to buy a $600k home...unless they are from CA or Seattle
I am in north central Idaho and we make a good living, and have been looking to buy a house for almost 2 years.... It is an absolutely frozen market. A lot of people that switched to remote from bigger corporations flooded here in the last 5 years. It's depressing. A downturn is needed for price correction.
Agreed
Agreed. That is happening just about everywhere. It's definitely sad.
Yes this dude is talking his book. I wanted Todd to ask realtor revenue per year… 2022vs23vs24
Bc we all know based on true stats ~70% of realtors didn’t sell squat in 2024
@zzzzzzzzz-111 yes.. I grew up here and have lived here my whole life. Being priced out by people fleeing other states, especially where their income reflects that area, is incredibly frustrating.
@@ErsatzGhost I agree where I am at, a couple hours south of where he is located, I have never seen it like this... Nothing is moving. Can't continue forever.
OMG. The retired public service workers are the only ones able to afford to live in North Idaho. Huge pensions, low or no healthcare costs and soc security… That’s ok wait till it crumbles. The younger 40 and under are definitely going to revolt. There won’t be any tax revenue to support the political fat cats and the pensions are gonna run dry. Im old i still work hard cause I love what I do. I work in a large public sector community and I always make sure our firm charges top dollar for all services and nothing we do is free… our public service workers in central New Jersey are the epitome of WOKE entitlement.
California pensions going bankrupt with a solid nasdaq correction along with stubbornly high inflation will flush the pensioners out of north Idaho.
Hope there public pensions go bust hope they loose there healthcare and have to go work at Walmart as a greeter then they will now what work really is
@wallye8713 I agree 100% All these government employees here that have been working from home for some agency that is now going to be abolished having no clue (nor do they care) that no one else can afford to live here based on what they pay. Go ELON!!
My thoughts exactly. CalPERS is beyond bankrupt.
They are going to fail economically, and the MC/owner from Sachs knows it. He has seen it all before and lived through it. I'm a government pension guy too, and I can see that this is just a pension hideout for those of us who played the system. What happens when all the baby boomers die? ...the town dies too.
A lot of retirees moved here. A lot. A nurse told me that the hospital system had to dramatically change due to the changing demographics (elderly).
Northern Idaho real estate/economy is being funded by the government pensions of blue states. Do they see the irony? 😂😂😂
So true
He says they don’t like government involvement yet he says that everyone previously worked for the government: police, military, etc. 😂 This guy talks out of both sides of his mouth
Don't they all and DBL talk it drives me crazy I'll say did you hear that & pops would say what are you talking about I'd say wait I'll show you when I hear it again it was before we had the web or DVR so it was hard untill it happened
Have a friend from High school who is hard core conservative, always anti government. He is 60 years old now and the jobs he has held is Air Force, Deputy sheriff, Firefighter, Arson investigator. So with the exception of the Pizza Hut job he held in High school he has always worked for the government in some fashion.
@rd24life
Have not heard his exact words yet, but wanted to reply to your apparent lack of understanding how this could be true without being duplicitous.
When one has worked inside the system and see how the machinations really are, then one builds up a distrust that is not apparent to those who live outside it.
A common analogy that might help you understand better...those who work inside a slaughterhouse often might not be quick to eat the product of their own labors.
Does not make him two-faced, just more knowledgeable.
@ in this case, definitely 2-faced. He worked as the government’s gun. Then collects the pension. So yeah, definitely 2-faced.
They are with the far right.
I can tell you one thing if lots of people are going to a certain area for supposed safety,, then that is not a safe place to be. When too many people are sure of something,, be very worried and do exactly the opposite.
My feelings exactly. It looks like a trap. I took a look at the number of cell towers and 5G antennas in Coeur d'Allene and almost fell off my chair. Interesting that they are attracting people with guns. Guns will be of no use in an electronic gulag.
I really don't think I'd want to live in an area with a bunch of retired users and abusers.
Right??! I mean come on, we all KNOW Military and LEO are a bunch of narcissists
Everyone in Idaho should become a realtor to afford a home. Regular jobs, and or professional jobs will not help you afford a house.
That's true now for anywhere in US.
America is gone and it ain't coming back.
It's all bankers playground now until money dries up and they take their toys to another sandbox leaving rest of us bent over.
The realtors are all crooks up in north Idaho! Idaho is a non-disclosure state, and the realtors take advantage of that by not getting a good comparison of market values.
No different here in WA State.
I’ve never seen less inspired architecture in my life. All junk new houses made of particle board and plastic that won’t last 40 years. That being said, I like the don’t tread on me mentality.
inhabited by all kinds of "I get paid to tread on people for punitive fine funds".
Here’s What’s special about northern Idaho, and the rest of Idaho actually, is there wasn’t that many people. The more people show up the less magical it is. That’s why you struggle to put your finger on it. You are actively destroying the magic every time you import people.
@skinnyvinnylive don't worry. No industry or even a restaurant open year round, people who can't live without power for days shouldn't be here
It used to be life, liberty and PROPERTY. Not the pursuit of happiness.
This guy is so full of shit. In one breath he says people here don't want government intervention, but the next thing he says is it's CRAZY that there aren't more regulations with building a house. When someone wants to SELL their house they built it shouldn't be up to government and BANKERS to decide whether or not you can sell your house to someone with for c example an owner/finance contract. It is ILLEGAL for this to happen even in Idaho. Banks can do this. The government can do this, but citizens that OWN THEIR PROPERTY cant
@LisaMaeSV650S I could only got thru the 16 minute mark
@SkinnyVinnyLive I have had these issues for a long time. It was painful but I watched almost the whole pod cast getting angrier by the minute.🙄
Todd this realtor is one of the biggest cheerleaders to tell people to buy now at any price so he can earn a commission. He is new as a realtor and tells people the market will never come down. The market crashed hard in late 2008. Empty foreclosed homes everywhere. Covid drove people to north Idaho. A lot of his clients are going to end up under water and in foreclosure. North Idaho is in a huge bubble. The upcoming crash will be way worse than 2008. Locals can no longer afford to live there. Many can no longer afford there property taxes and are being priced out. Mostly California residents who over paid during Covid moved there. Remote workers are in trouble and have to start going back to Ca to keep there job. They can’t afford there home without Ca wages. Many are now flying back and forth to Ca to keep there jobs. Plane tickets are getting expensive. Californians selling high during Covid and moving there buying cash drove the market up in mass and destroyed north Idaho. What is taking place is not sustainable. It’s a nice place but way over valued. The smart money is sitting on the sideline waiting for the crash. Fire sale prices coming. The sales have dropped way off. The California money has ended. Next comes the massive crash. I’m betting this realtor will be long gone. He won’t be very popular when his clients are underwater and head toward foreclosure. He is not honest about sales and what is coming. He will say anything to make a sale. He is leading clients to there slaughter. I hope you will reach out to him after the upcoming crash. I’d love to hear what he has to say. All the realtors that were around in 2008 that were cheerleading like him are long gone. I’m sure he will be joining them soon. I sure wish you would have asked him about the growing list of pre foreclosures. There are cracks in the dam all over. He is in complete denial. He is a dangerous realtor! Buy Buy Buy! Now is the best time to buy is his slogan. He is as bad as it gets.
We have the exact same issues here in East Tennessee. People are tired of high prices, high tax rates, and Blue state rot. Southern Appalachia is beautiful, and we have four equal seasons. We have conservative politics, low crime, and we used to have very affordable home prices. People moved in here from all over the country, and real estate went way up. During the Wu-floo situation, the average home price went from $250k to just over $400k in a short time. We have had historically low wages and costs of living, but now it's difficult for the locals to afford to live here. 😢
Same here in middle Tennessee. We live outside Nashville in what used to be a small town . Not anymore 🙁
I'm a young man with a family who lives in North idaho currently.
I work in the trades and have so much work its ridiculous. Problem is there is too much work, not enough people that can do the work, and everything is expensive now.
Homes here basically fall into 3 categories. Track homes, resort style homes, mobile homes. There is a small but incredibly tiny 4th category of ranch homes where you have a handful of acres or many hundreds of acres. But thats typically all tied up in family compounds/estates and rarely, if ever for sale.
Because the market is so tight the average person either needs a lot of money to live great in a resort home or they settle for track home or they afford a mobile home. Which half the time is just ridiculous as they are over 150k on many of them and never include the land.
I work on many of these homes due to my profession and I recommend that no one moves here unless you are incredibly wealthy, bringing at least 2 million with you and/or you plan to also start a business and move your family and extended family up here.
Thats the only way you will make it and be able to enjoy all the things he talks about doing up here. Otherwise you'll constantly be renting and moving around the area or eventually leave like most locals are.
Its not an easy area to get started in. So bringing a business with you that you specialize in has a good chance of success because no one else likely does it or very few.
But retiring up here is impossible unless you have some other form of income that is inflation adjusted meaning social security isn't enough much less most pensions.
thats true for the entire country and its the sad reality goin forward. leftism has destroyed our quality of life.
$26 per hour median wage, yet the median home price is $550k. Unreal.
Ahh... The freedom and rugged individualism of lifelong government transfer payments.
great analogy!
yep. from Weaver residents to Horiuchi residents. Legendary irony.
We thought about moving to Northern Idaho in 2020, and traveled there to investigate the region. But it's too cold in the winter and too far from the Pacific Ocean, so we decided against it.
Of course you bring a brand new realtor and he is terrified of a economic downturn so everything he will say is its all roses and great
SALESMAN .....SALESMAN ...... SALESMAN ... that is all
I left Idaho years ago in my late twenties. Grew up hunting and fishing and being in the wilderness areas. Beautiful but culturally backwards. People that I have since known that moved to Idaho were for the most part bigoted in every way possible. Idaho now has an even larger number of fear and hate based conservatives. Never a place I would want to live or raise a family.
I grew up in orofino Idaho. A town of a few thousand. It is all unaffordable now . I had to move out of state and build my wealth in California to be able to afford to move back.... The locals are priced out.
Orofino is still fun to visit and fish, from cda.
A lot of people that move up here complain about the winter. It's just a long winter and darker. If you are not used to that, be sure you know what you are getting into.
I’ve heard, thanks for sharing 🙏
I agree! I moved up and lasted one long dark and cloudy fall/winter/spring. I need sun ☀️ but it is beautiful up there.
@@spudruckus7297 people need a hobby
Yesh im a logger, and i bought a 1.2 million$ house. Lmao. Im just kidding, but this guy is out of his mind.
This is all BS. Idaho has zero vacancy. Keep out! There are wolves and grizzly bears, and it is very cold. Uninhabitable region. Nothing to see here.
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How do you know?
@@keithharrold7262 Following
I feel the same about texas. Stay out. We dont want the commies coming here.
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The only thing that has changed in Idaho is the prices. The psychology of Idaho remains the same as it was decades ago, remember Ruby Ridge.
Yes I do remember ...was born & raised here. But it has changed big time & I hate it, It's It"s not country anymore it's LITTLE L.A. with the same attitude as them
Bad FBI agents back then too
Oof. Idaho is about to become the next Florida. States should regulate their housing market and vet their new residents. The local natives in every state are suffering from this migration.
Thank you, local WA state, my family suffering tremendously from mean, arrogant Aholes taking over every nook and craney crapping everywhere they go. They ruin everything, we no longer can leave, they made us broke.
Agreed. Local politicians just see tax dollars. They have No Plan for development. FL is totally ruined along the coast.
Natives ? What does that mean. Some sort of birthright ?
Whats interesting is aside from the beautiful nature landscape North Idaho boasts (and no openly homeless on the streets) it sounds like a copy paste situation going on ALL OVER North America.
Richer states and provinces being squeezed out to other states and provinces for more freedom and better quality of life...taking their dollars that go further to more affordable states and provinces.
Thereby driving up prices there as well.
No solutions, but definitely a pattern happening quite literally everywhere.
Yes it's a cycle
They are living in the woods!
The average wage and average house price in Idaho, is BETTER than all of Canada so that should tell you the state of the Canadian economy.
😢
Not true outside the big cities.
Moved from beautiful Wallace 4 years ago when everyone seemed to be moving in and taxes went nuts. Our home was paid in full with land. Locals can’t afford to buy anything there . We moved to high desert Az. Sadly .
How do you like high desert AZ? I’m a marine. Love hunting, dirt bikes and freedom. Looking to buy in the next year.
@@MurdaIncorporated land is very, very inexpensive here. 81 acres is about $80,000. That includes well water, off grid living though. Lots of properties near us for sale.
Perfect for dirtbike riding . We have a general , and I love it for riding here. Lots of wildlife, bears, wolves, deer, antelope etc. But is is considered the “ Wild West” and very interesting characters.
If you like wind, dirt and on the hot side some months, this is the place for you. We do get snow , and below 0 (-5) a few times in the Jan/Feb months, but nothing like beautiful Wallace Idaho.
Taxes for 40 acres here on our place is $196 a year.
I’m a mountain girl and prefer Idaho . But not the chaos that was coming into our little town. Closed my shop, sold our two homes, packed up , and moved here. This night skies are amazing. Probably my favorite thing about living here , besides low taxes. Shopping is the pits. Scottsdale is about four hours from us, and considered to be in the valley. We are almost 6000 feet up. We are probably the only ones that have beautiful grass. That’s because we worked hard at planting it , and caring for it. We planted trees and many flowers. You can grow food very easily here . I was quite surprised . Brought in gravel to help with the dust , and mud during the monsoons. Which I love. Our neighbors call all the “ trees “on our property “trees “. I think they’re pushing it. I called them pygmy bushes. You don’t know what real trees are, until you lived in the mountains of Idaho near Montana. 😉🤭
@@JudyAnn17 I can tell you're near or in the White Mountains lol i used to live there. If you are Mormon and can take the heat and Meth plague then you're good. I left and i will Never go back.
It's amazing, these people that are "fleeing," and they don't even truly understand what they're fleeing from. They think they know, but clearly they are clueless.
😮🗽🇺🇸Clueless Blue and Green Socialists, oh I mean Progressives.🤑🗽🇺🇸✔✌🏿✌🏽✌✌🏻
Homelessness, tranny fluid being pushed in schools, drugs, crime, high taxes, sanctuary states that protect illegals etc…
My friend works at Harborview Hospital in Seattle and says a lot of people come from Idaho because they don’t trust the medical care in Idaho.
a lot? 3 or 4?
City people moving to farm states has only one outcome, if you are rich or if you are among those doing-OK. They will get full of the view and their fantasy of rural idyll and then leave, having jacked up the whole cost of life in that rural state.
Reading all these comments got me thinking I'm stuck in my parents' old mobile home in Virginia.
Paranoid pearl clutchers, irony is living in these remote desolate is really unsafe because you’re so far away from level 1 trauma centers and there are a bunch of fatal car accidents all the time.
Leave taxes alone because people don't like government intervention ? Taxes are government interference. Sounds like a real estate agent. Lots of this is bullshit.
Your right I live in Twin Falls Idaho and if you live in your home you get a 50% refund on your yearly property tax
So all the people who made their livings and PENSIONS "protecting us all and keeping us safe" are now banding together and hiding out near the northern border in quaking fear due to their failures? Give those pensions back to the taxpayers who paid their salaries and PENSIONS who couldn't afford to leave!
And they made their pensions on socialist government jobs…. Let’s not discount that.
@@poohsblusteryday8592 Some of the most high paying jobs, comparatively, where no matter HOW incompetent, you can't get fired. Now gentrifying the last soulful places in the country. OH BOY! Big Tech is coming! ..... God help you native folks.
Sounds like communism.
Stop talking bad about our hero police officers.
Our police officers risk their lives every single day.
Exactly, law enforcement extorts weak politicians and does their blue flu for to demand extravagant salaries and pensions and then perpetuate the narrative that said place is “dangerous”
YOU'D NEVER CATCH ME UP THERE IN THAT OR ANY OTHER FROZEN TUNDRA!
What he's saying is half true. There are tons of meth/crackheads. Many law enforcement know who they are. So, if you have a confrontation? And need to defend yourself? You're good. There are a lot of moose, cougars, bears and many day hikers from out of town have no idea about this. In winter in Morton, Lake Pend Orielle, Bonners Ferry? Folks use their snowmobiles to get to town for basic groceries. It's not just cold, it's damn cold.
North Idaho is very racist. If you are anti guns? Do Not Move There.
Is it one of thee most gorgeous places on Earth? Yes. Yes, yes, yes. It is. If I could own only one large area of the US? It would be Northern Idaho. It's THAT BEAUTIFUL. So if you decide to buy here? Don't mess anything up!!! ✌️
As someone from CA I know for a fact a certain type of people are moving to the area for “reasons” 😅
SityClicker1- why? Ppl coming from CA wouldn’t they be cold? I’d luv to know the reasons besides the fires …unless it’s for nuke sit then I get it… bunkers likely
AI says this about it: 95% white: North Idaho is considered very conservative, with a significant presence of far-right and extremist political views. The area has a history of association with white supremacy and anti-government extremism. Over the years, it has become a destination for conservative "Christian patriots" moving from more populated areas. This influx has contributed to reinforcing the conservative political landscape in the region
Sounds awesome.
I hope AI keeps telling that to the lefties
and thats a good thing. safe and white. a great place to raise a family. stay in your containment blue state "diverse" jungles
Nothing wrong with not having naked rainbow flag painted, gay men and trans men parading around little children.
Haha 95% wrong there lol
A frozen market is a down market.
Idaho Large concentration of Retired cops Or fired cops. Would be interesting to see how they treat people now. People may forgive but they don't forget.
No kidding!
Rough winters.
I think the potatoes are attracting people😂
It's already unaffordable for the youth here!
Thnx for the info. Good luck.
"we prefer the government to stay out of our business" but he seemed to welcome the federal government cleaning up the superfund site.
😂😂😂🤫🤫🤫🤫😉😉
Love living in north idaho. The winters are brutal though. Its solid 4-5 months of dreary no sun, cloudy, cold,snow. But summers are omg levels of awesomeness. The mtns of north Idaho are a spiritual experience though..
We will soon find out which realtors are wearing shorts when the tide goes out.
We have not seen anything ,yet. Wait till Mother of all recessions arrives.
It's already here in Texa-Fornia! There are houses in my neighborhood ( 1 hour north of crap-hole Austin) on market for $175K, and that's less than half of what they were selling for two years ago.
Money changes everything. Far Eastern Washington here. If I didn't own my home outright I couldn't afford to live in Washington
CDA and Hayden are great. Prices have gone insane. Pre 2020 it was an amazing place to start a life. Too expensive now.
I follow like 10-20 of this Idaho realtors with TH-cam channels. 70 percent of their videos are marketed towards CA ppl. With the keywords and everything. It is a money grab for the realtors. They only show the 700k+ properties. Absolutely disgusting and greedy.
I follow different realtors on TH-cam too, and you are 100% correct! They moved to Idaho in 2019 to get away from the lock downs. His wife was a realtor at the time, and then he became a realtor. We all know what Covid did to the Idaho market. These realtors are propping up the market, but their time is running out. You can hear it in his voice and see it on his face. It simply isn't sustainable!
And Yellowstone is burping. 😮
Prices will continue to drop in North Idaho....
I left north Idaho over 20 years ago because there was an influx of out of state people who brought the same failed ideas from whare they escaped from, house got out of control inspection costs added up, you have to have money to even think about getting into a home the local young people have know Chance to ever getting into a home
My grandson lives in northern Idaho. He is in the construction business and a lot of celebrities in the leads with a lot of money are building a lot of big houses in northern Idaho. He loves Idaho and he said he'll never leave.
It’s too bad in America a “strong and healthy market” means high housing prices. The city with the lowest cost of living should be the strongest and healthiest. We have it backwards.
I bought a home in Alabama and found out no friends!
Don't know about now, but several years ago a number of out-of-state companies were buying up every affordable house to turn into rentals too - and that has helped drive up prices... 😢
I am an Idaho Land broker, 40+ years. I love CA buyers, after about 2 years the wife tells the husband that she is going back to CA and if he wants to stay married he must sell and go back with her. So then I get another sale and sell it to an new CA buyer. One lady wanted to sue the Coeur d Alene Chamber of Commerce because when they bought in the summer, they were not told that it snowed in North Idaho in the winter. Idaho is what I call a "freedom state". Kingston, Idaho 83839. In my county there are over 600 miles of mine tunnels, it is called the Silver Valley.
those sound like the rich liberal idiots. im from CA and been saving up hoping for the chance to move to idaho for the freedom, safety and gun rights. please do everythign you can to filter out the liberals and keep them from buying anything in idaho. thank you for your service.
@@user-im6fy4qp6mprepare to catch shit. Don’t tell people you’re from California, but more than likely though, they’ll smell it on you.
The winters are long, cold, and gray. I know of two instances where the women took off, back to S. Cal, leaving their men behind.
I have been under the impression that Idaho was a prepper's dream since the 80s.
Well, Washington, Oregon, California, . . . there goes the neighborhood
Coeur d’Alene is a beautiful place. It’s sad that long time residents are losing their way of life. Idaho is a great place to live. I hope it stays that way
Todd you should do the same for Montana. I’m a lifelong Montanan and retired. My husband and I would like to move closer to our kids across the state. We can’t afford it. We can’t afford the rent either if we were to sell our modest home that we already have. Property taxes are outrageous and locals can’t afford those either.
People were moving to Idaho and nevada because it was cheap compared to the neighboring states of Cali and Washington…not so much anymore. The only buyers are remote tech workers and investors here
I too am a Realtor here in Coeur d’ Alene, I’ve lived here my whole life.
I’ve been watching your channel for awhile now and I’m constantly trying to gauge the future of the market based on nationwide trends. But North Idaho is special, unique in fact, where it is such a locally influenced market. People do keep coming, I actually have never sold someone’s home because they are relocating. They are all just coming over here. I also hold my license in Spokane Washington, and the price differences to comparable properties are VASTLY different. Spokane is our neighboring city, and the prices are much lower. Idaho is the dream, I get it. I am also very biased as this place is in my blood.
It sounds wonderful there 👏 many come to Florida and leave too.
Idaho definitely keeps the "culture" of the state as white and wealthy as legally allowable. 😂
😂 Right!
I live in Coeur d’Alene Idaho, and have lived here since March 2001. I moved here from San Jose California and bought my first three bedroom two bath house for $103,000. It used to be great here if you wanted a slower pace of life and like the outdoors. But now it’s a completely different place. A lot of people have moved here that aren’t from the area and the price of housing is ridiculous in comparison to the wages. It took me a long time to figure out how to make money over here coming from the Bay Area. But when you do, life can still be pretty good over here in comparison. My biggest complaint these days is how packed it is! I used to be able to go to the grocery store and walk right up to the register without a line . It had a very small town feel back then. Now it’s packed to the gills and tensions can run high, especially from the people that have lived here all their lives.
There needs to be some kind of law that if you move from a another state, you have to wait 8-10 years before you can vote in that new state (and that wait period restarts every time you move to another state). That way you don't get people bouncing from the state they messed up to another state and messing that state up too. They also need to make it where you can't put a double and triple offer on a house. The person next to us moved in from another state and paid double it's worth. Now prices are going up in this area. - 4th Gen Okie raising 5th Gen Okies in a 3rd Gen home.
You picked a great state!!! I have a lot of family in northern Idaho, I’ve loved Idaho since I was a child, my Mom grew up in Priest River, Idaho. I currently live in Fish Haven Idaho, it’s in southeastern part of the state, and it’s beautiful here, I live at the top a mountain looking down on Bear Lake!! 🥰🙏🏻👏🏼
How about I am greedy! Where do we fit into this retirement scenario?
The Silver Valley has been a designated superfund clean-up site for decades. The river that feeds Lake Coeur d Alene continues to carry toxins directly from the Silver Valley into the lake. The lake pollution is not limited to the south end of the lake. The inflow is from the river at the south end of the lake. The outflow is a river at the North end of the lake.... figure it out. Seasonally - what's on the bottom of a lake rises to the top. Microfine particles and gasses are released into the upper water layers of the lake and into the air..... that's how lakes work. There are many state and federal reports available online that discuss what we are dealing with here. Detailed information down to what toxins they're finding in the fish in different parts of the lake. Lead and Cadmium. In addition - the increased population and increased runoff of yard chemicals etc is adding a new level of pollution to the lake. Yes, it's pretty to look at... just seems newcomers would take a few minutes to read and understand all the reasons why this area did not grow much until very recently. One of the newer reports advises those in contact with Coeur d Alene Lake water or the sand on its banks to wash off before entering their cars or houses. Do not eat food without washing your hands and launder towels, beach blankets etc asap to remove the toxins.
Cops in Salmon Idaho don't make a lot on paper but they live like kings, in big houses with All the toys. You can figure it out, if you want.
They are corrupt, Good ole boys club
Drugs!!!!! Its the Real economy
This is a weird tourism/fear advertisement for realty services...
It's focus is to bring govt pensioners into the fold. With a bent towards cops. They are a cult and not to be trusted.
You guys need to be very vigilant. All those new comer will get into local politics and government. And start to turn your town. And state into the failure they are running from. The locals need to be united and reject political change. And put in homestead exemption. As well as property tax by brackets. For example 300k family home pay 0.2% tax, 1 mil home pays 2%
This is already happening in north Idaho, Priest River school district has experienced exactly what you are talking about with politics. Property taxes have become a real big issue, and HOA's are out of control.
@@kimtruesdale712 very scary.
why cant they leave their bad policies and failed ideology in Washington/CA?!
Now you're a socialist. Soon you'll be asking billionaires to pay taxes.
ALL CALIFORNIANS KEEP OUT OF IDAHO
Does this include registered Republican voters?
I live a half hour west of Coer d'Alene. It’s beautiful and great to visit but I have a much nicer house and lower cost of living in Spokane. I think I'll stick to visiting the area and keep more of my money.
I have a new name for the city. FORT COUERE D'ALAUNE !!! Keep up the good work up the boyz !! o7 fellas.
It’s not sustainable. He’s wrong
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Maybe 5 acre lots in Idaho are popular because those who can are preparing for a bit of a societal collapse? Because of hyperinflation or peak oil or whatever, it’s useful to have the option to be able to grow your own food and be away from a lot of people.
The gov't will be coming to kill your animals and confiscate everything else. They already have many places. Most notably in California. Welcome to the New World Order
I heard the 5 acre lots were to limit overcrowding, traffic, and stress on the infrastructure. It makes for great areas, but because it limits how many houses can be built, it inadvertently causes higher prices.
Ooh another area of the country, i appreciate you reaching out to other people and hosting their areas too, this was interesting
Can you host a new england channel person sometime?
Careful, listen to the interviewer and HEAR the answers PLEASE!!! That math ain't mathing. $1400 rent, our house almost doubled in value since we bought it 10 years ago. If peace and if Jesus is what your looking for well I think you can find that in a lot of other more affordable places. Just move to the outskirts of town, them woke folk will let you be. Oh yes we do have crime, and homeless people, and PillBillys galore, no matter what they tell you.
I literally just moved away from CDA, I didn't want to, but could no longer afford to live there. Thought I was going to retire there. 😢
The guy from Idaho is plenty dangerous to people who don't look or think like he does. And he wanted to be very clear about that while leaving room to claim that he didn't say anything specific. But he definitely intended for you to read between the lines. However, I'll give him credit for removing himself from the melting pot of our society. He wants to create a "sundown town" with his other militarist bros. But be warned, just because you may look like him doesn't mean that your ideas and beliefs will be tolerated by him and his crew.
and thats a good thing. some people want safety and cleanliness where they live. theres nothing wrong with that. stay in your crime infested jungle. you dont have to ruin our communities.
Yeah, the pay sucks. I am a conservative, but there is no black and white. Red states have no labor representation, i.e. unions. I have worked in both Arizona and Utah. Also, worked as a union carpenter in Seattle. Had a guy come from Idaho as a Iron worker foreman making only $25.00 per hour. Union journeyman carpenter in Seattle makes $61.00 per hour plus benefits. I was from Spokane/Post Fall and had to go to Seattle to work.. I didn't have a 4 year degree. Now retired in Southern Utah.
you dont want unions or minimum wages. wages grow naturally wiht capitalism as competing businesses are founded and grow.
@@user-im6fy4qp6m bs our econ is full of collusion across the board. lots of little feifdoms. capitalism is rigged like all systems for the uber wealthy and connected
@user-im6fy4qp6m I don't know you field of work, but we don't have capitalism when companies loses are socialized. Apart from that; labor has smallest % of GDP or gdi since the 1920's. And even if we did have capitalism, workers still need representation. Red states have no problem hiring illegals. I KNOW BECAUSE THEY HAVE TOLD ME.
@@user-im6fy4qp6m Bless your heart.
Could you do a video like this with someone from Boise Idaho?
I enjoy this channel. Thanks for all you do.
I've lived in Spokane, Wa just over the border all my life and the crime and homelessness just keeps rising every year. We currently for the past 20 years live on the outskirts of the city which is much better but still not out far enough. I sure would love to live in Coeur d' Alene, Id if I could, maybe someday.
Can’t be stranger than what happened in April of 92 up there… wouldn’t be surprised to see it happen again…
You need to investigate the developers. Who are they and where are they getting their money for building the homes during the construction stage.
What I noticed about North Idaho when we visited is there wasn't a pot shop every 5 blocks like in Portland.
No, just meth labs ..
Northwestern Montana has seen a massive influx of people from 'blue states' as well. The problems are the same. Those who are natives don't make a lot of money and therefore the influx of money, the rising home prices, has made the cost of living prohibitive for long-timers. And, those who came here before the land rush started about 5 years ago, are now missing the wildness of the place ... there are homes, McMansions on every mountainside, crammed in along the lakes, and those who've moved in more recently love to put fences and 'no trespassing signs everywhere. It used to not be like that! Certainly, we are less congested than the influx to places like Florida, Texas, etc., but it seems anywhere that has either natural beauty, or warm sunny weather, is being overrun!