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Diplomat_Wagon

Diplomat_Wagon

Hiding In The Bushes While
So after about 5 years of my neighbor dealing drugs, having a never ending stream of creepy, sketchy fuckin weirdos coming by his house at all hours of the night, loud house parties, multiple visits from police things have finally changed for the better!

He was finally arrested and his house was subsequently condemned by the city and has been purchased by a private contractor that is currently in the process of stripping reusable parts out of it, mostly the two year old windows and doors before they start the demo sometime in the coming weeks.


Fuckin sweet I tell you! :dance: They are even removing that goddamn tree that is at the end of my driveway! :giggedy:


Now hopefully the same thing will happen for our ole buddy Jass. :helpme:





 
About time...friggin human cockroaches! Glad the exterminator has come to town. Are they going to build a new house on the lot? Or just open land for you to park on. ;)
 
Wow they made short work of that rat hole. Now a fresh new house going up will be nice. Hope it's not a monster house though, more in line with the current house sizes?
 
thrashingcows said:
Wow they made short work of that rat hole. Now a fresh new house going up will be nice. Hope it's not a monster house though, more in line with the current house sizes?
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Homebuilders seldom build smaller homes anymore. Very little money in it. Labour is the largest sing cost in construction, and labour costs are just about the same from a small house to a large one.
 
Your right, but one can always hope for a house more in line with the existing neighborhood. But regardless of what size of house is built, it will be NEW and should get a decent individual as it's new owner....no renters I hope.
 
They can only build a house as big as the lot will allow. Probably 1,000-1,500sqft.

The city will only allow X amount of lot to be covered with building.

Considering the lot is only 40' wide and the house has to face the street not the alley I'm going to say a 1,200sqft bungalow will be build there.


If I see him on the weekend again I'll ask. :D
 
Down here, especially in the city, they will knock down a 1000-1500 sqft house and in it's place the will build a 3500 sqft "McMansion" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMansion. I've seen them take up about 75% of the lot, with enough room left to have a driveway and a strip of grass. If you Google "Dallas Love Field" and look at the homes they are building in the surrounding neighborhood you'll see exactly what I'm talking about.
 
Diplomat_Wagon said:
True. But I doubt it.
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Again, be careful with your assumptions. It's near impossible for a home builder to make a profit on 1000 square ft. homes given the cost of labour these days. If there is a developer in the mix, like most cities insist on these days, its even harder. If in Yorkton a person can still buy their own lot and build for themselves on it, then maybe - but you are not going to find a professional that will bother with something that small, unless it's an RTM or modular home.

This is part of the reason we have a housing crisis here. Small, affordable housing has become a thing of the past. There is simply no way to make money on it.
 
I know that in the States, what they call "short sales" are becoming increasingly popular. Sell the place for less than you owe on it, give that money to the bank, and declare bankruptcy. Living in a small, perpetual-recession community like I do, there is still a lot of small, affordable housing. By the same token, my Mom just "short sold" her house for over $30K less than what she was asking. However, in her case, she paid for the house in full at the time of purchase; there was no mortgage to trouble her. She just wanted the place gone as it was too big and she was tired of maintaining the place.

Anything less than a 3-bedroom house is virtually unmarketable here. I imagine it's not so different there. I got this place inexpensively because it was a 2-bedroom and tiny, plus it had been on the market for a number of years. I would have to go with Nodda on this one; you're probably going to have something bigger than you expect on that lot.
 
yeah ..3 bed 1500sqf minimum is pretty standard just about everywhere any more cause smaller is just too damn hard to sell...everything new that goes up is generaly 1500-1800sqf.....expect big hope small...something else too is buyer builder troops which looks like what your dealing with generaly dont give rats ass 1 about the "yard" and use eveyr availible inch of the land that the city will allow them to
 
Think about it this way:

You are a contractor who is in the business of building and selling houses for a profit.

You have a space on which you can build a $200K home, or a $300K home.

The $200K home is going to be tougher to sell, even in an overheated market, due to it's lack of a 3rd bedroom/smaller rooms or both.

The cost of labour to build either one is virtually the same.

The cost of permits for either one is virtually the same.

The costs of services (Gas, Power, Water & Sewer) to the lot are identical.

So the selling price and the percentage of profit will be lower on the smaller house. (Worse yet if you have to discount the smaller house to induce someone to buy it.)

As a businessperson, what would you do?

At any rate DW, regardless what they build there - you will be better off than you were before, even if you do end up with a bigger than average house across the street. Sketchy neighbors can't afford $300K + homes. Just be careful they don't end up considering you the loud/bad/sketchy neighbor because of your hobby. (Don't ask me how I know.)
 
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Around these parts you're limited to the "footprint" size of the house, it being based on lot size and zoning.
Basically, it's something like the foundation or pad can occupy only, say 60% of the lot. Usually there aren't too many restrictions on floor levels though, so most new homes are two story with full basements to get the sq. footage numbers up there in the marketable range.
Ever notice that many new houses on city lots look so narrow and high, with built in garages? It's because they put the biggest house they could on a lot and there was no room left for any detached buildings. A garage will help sell a house and they can put the basement underneath it and living space above it.
Square footage sells, so it'll be as big as legally possible. But it has to look better than that shitpile that was torn down. :)
 
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