Christine Egan, a massage therapist living in Putnam County, New York, has been eagerly searching for a house for almost two years now. She and her 16-year-old daughter, Isabel, have been renting a townhouse in a suburban community located more than an hour north of New York City.
Ms. Egan describes the entire process as extremely frustrating. “The biggest problems are finding homes in my price range, and then when I do, being outbid by someone else,” she told The Epoch Times. In this region, houses in the $350,000 to $400,000 range are few and far between, and many of them require a tremendous amount of work.
