It is what it is.
I have not paid more than $400 for any bike I ever bought here if not a brand new one. Several of them given away to me just to get them out of the garage. Here peoples' value structures are different. Mostly in that nobody will give you the full worth of what a thing has, it's too easy to find somebody else on the down-and-desperate. I just gave a '94 Ford Tempo to the scrapyards as nobody wanted it unless I spent for tires, licensing, the whole thing, they want you to hand it to them on a silver platter. The car ran perfectly and had a new ATX and used zero oil. I personally could have driven it likely for 10 more years but no, they want YOU to incur the loss when you sell it to them and they then bring it back in a couple months wanting money back because they drove it for 20 miles with blown rad hose or other like idiocy. BTDT more than once, and why I no longer sell vehicles to the general public, just burn them out to junk them, the only true way to get max value. The Tempo had to go because I have too many other cars, I've kept 3 and usually 4 running 100% of the time for the last 35 years.
Because nobody is smart enough to realize the valves not being set on early DOHC is what sends everybody after the carbs to then make things worse you can find deal 750s here forever at $250-$500 and some nice ones at $1K+ if you simply wait. The heat here makes the ethanol effect much worse and why so many clean the carbs to still have running problems, and the combined fear and laziness to not break the carb bank fully apart reinforces that. You can count the people who can fully clean carbs to perfection on one hand here, most simply shortcut too much.
Texas has created more jobs than anywhere else but what they don't tell you is that most are temp or $8/hr. and you can't buy anything with that. The buyer outlook is greatly warped here as a result of that.