Hans Fugal wrote:
> Anyway, my take on it is it's a crying shame that people are dumb but
> it's not news. It's a crying shame that Utah is filling up and space is
> limited, limiting your choices (or forcing you to a longer commute), but
> it is.
Utah is hardly filling up--the wasatch front is
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 18:54 -0600, Dave Smith wrote:
> Hans Fugal wrote:
> > They are rectangular 2 or 3 story houses, now (if not originally)
> > divided into one or two housing units per floor. They would put any
> > Utah McMansion to shame in terms of tastelessness and low quality, not
> > to
Hans Fugal wrote:
They are rectangular 2 or 3 story houses, now (if not originally)
divided into one or two housing units per floor. They would put any
Utah McMansion to shame in terms of tastelessness and low quality, not
to mention lack of yard and curb appeal. The McMansions would only win
Jonathan Ellis wrote:
it's easy to buy a lot and have a builder build whatever size home you like
on it.
I've never seen a lot for sale that wasn't owned by a developer. And
generally, they won't sell it to you unless you let *them* build on
it.Exceptions exist, but they are rare.
--Dave
Dave Smith wrote:
Excellent point. I had not considered that. Perhaps my neighborhood has
survived precisely because it was higher quality from the get go. I
still doubt that it was on the upper end of the price spectrum, though.
I would love to get a glimpse at the McMansion neighborhoods n
I apologize Justin, other than reading mailing lists I have not posted much
to them until recently. I'll make sure to do this in the future.
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 4:35 PM, justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Matt Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Sorry Jeff
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 7:40 AM, Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On
> the topic of housing, however, there was a strong counter argument: "The
> market has swung too far, even those who don't want them are being
> forced to buy too large homes on too small land."
Except that's not reall
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Dave Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> - Consumers want small yards. That's why developers cram lots of houses on
> the land they buy.
They may want big yards, but they're not willing to pay a premium for
them. That's what matters.
-Jonathan
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On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 00:19 -0600, Corey Edwards wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 22:04 -0600, Josh Coates wrote:
> > >McMansions are built because people want them;
> >
> > ditto to stuart jansen's brilliant statement - (plus a "duh." added by me,
> > directed towards andy. ;-)
>
> There's quite
