Woodenskye Posted January 25, 2018 Report Share Posted January 25, 2018 13 minutes ago, K Cooper said: In Texas, land is priced by the acre. It's pretty much the same every place. People use SF to compensate for their tiny acreage size, and other things as well I'm sure. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Llama Posted January 25, 2018 Report Share Posted January 25, 2018 21 minutes ago, Woodenskye said: It's pretty much the same every place. People use SF to compensate for their tiny acreage size, and other things as well I'm sure. Whatever it's called... The consumption of jazz cabbage makes it moot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatCharlieDude Posted January 25, 2018 Report Share Posted January 25, 2018 44 minutes ago, K Cooper said: In Texas, land is priced by the acre. Not in the burbs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatCharlieDude Posted January 25, 2018 Report Share Posted January 25, 2018 45 minutes ago, K Cooper said: In Texas, land is priced by the acre. What's the market like there down in Houston Coop? It's a sellers market here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted January 25, 2018 Report Share Posted January 25, 2018 It is here as well, even after Harvey, or even due to Harvey. I’m surprised at the folks that are buying homes that flooded but never in the past, and flipping or buying them at discount, to live in. They just did an article in Houston Business Journal that told the % increase YTY, in home building and it’s amazing. Makes me want to sell my little place and move to Montana. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop Posted January 25, 2018 Report Share Posted January 25, 2018 3 hours ago, wdwerker said: Square feet is used to make 1/4 and 1/8 acre lots seem bigger ! an 8000sq sqft lot = .18365 acres !!! Ok, so I have 864 acres x , oh hell, I’m confused! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wdwerker Posted January 25, 2018 Report Share Posted January 25, 2018 37,635,840 square feet ! 37.6 million square feet in San Francisco is awesome, in Texas its upper middle class ...... beats the hell out of my . 435 acres. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted January 25, 2018 Report Share Posted January 25, 2018 I realize it's Canadian dollars, but in the west side of Vancouver, a tear down house (ie: post war 1200 sq ft bungalow that hasn't been updated since it was built), on a typical 33 x 122 ft lot starts at about 2.25 million. In fact, a bare lot will be more expensive, because you don't have to tear down the existing house. On the cheaper east side, you could still get a house for just over a million, but it will in horrible shape, and likely come with it's own supply of needles and syringes in the front yard... The only positive is that those of us that have owned for a while will all eventually sell and move somewhere else, at which point we can buy whatever we want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wdwerker Posted January 25, 2018 Report Share Posted January 25, 2018 That's close to 25 million an acre ! Might be reasonable if you were going to build a high rise, but outrageous if you just wanted a bit of lawn & garden space around the mansion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted January 25, 2018 Report Share Posted January 25, 2018 3 hours ago, wdwerker said: That's close to 25 million an acre ! Might be reasonable if you were going to build a high rise, but outrageous if you just wanted a bit of lawn & garden space around the mansion. It's insane here. A downtown lot that was just under an acre recently sold for 245 million. It is a prime location, right on one of the major streets. The problem with prices like these is that it prices the vast majority of people out of the market, and for young families it's pretty much impossible. A lot of these families either move to the suburbs, which aren't cheap either, just slight more reasonable, or else they end up in small, expensive condos. I honestly don't know what this city is going to look like in 10-15 years, because nobody that works a regular job will be able live here. But by then, we'll be living like kings somewhere else... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MisterDrow Posted January 25, 2018 Popular Post Report Share Posted January 25, 2018 On 1/24/2018 at 7:59 AM, minorhero said: That chateau looks like it's what.. 15,000 square feet? (My random ball park estimate) Seems crazy to think you can get that for 500k. I assume site prep is currently non existent? As someone actively looking at real estate for my next home in Maryland I feel safe in saying that excluding real estate you can build a hell of a home for 500k. But you are not going to have anything like that chateau. 43000 square feet, actually... with 5 separate floors. This reminds me of the time I went to meet with a company about building a website for them. They wanted a full custom CMS, e-commerce functionality, and a 'members only' area of the site with lots of additional functionality. Before I could even talk about pricing the CEO told me how he knows that building a website isn't 'rocket science' but he's got '$500-600 to throw at it so why not.' I stood up, shook his hand, and walked out. 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tom King Posted January 26, 2018 Author Popular Post Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 She did get back in contact with me after my very polite, but honest reply. I've encountered this before. She's thinking in concepts, and not reality. I'm in the process of teaching her how to design a nice looking house by first sending her suggestions for books to get. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterDrow Posted January 26, 2018 Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 Glad to hear a positive outcome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post drzaius Posted January 26, 2018 Popular Post Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 All or our snide remarks aside, sometimes people just don't know & that's all right. Everyone's gotta learn somehow. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterDrow Posted January 26, 2018 Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 12 minutes ago, drzaius said: All or our snide remarks aside, sometimes people just don't know & that's all right. Everyone's gotta learn somehow. And to follow that up, a lot of the time how the customer takes the 'bad news' is almost entirely up to you and how you present it along with how you react to their feelings/budget/etc when they were expecting something else. It sounds like Tom is very good with people and has been able to keep the interaction positive and might actually lead to a paid job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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