Re: [MBZ] Tear Downs was Re: Tire Purchase
Around Seattle there are a few tear down to McMansion, but more likely to end up taking a nice cottage out and installing some townhome things. We end up with six homes on a lot that had a nice 800 sq ft cottage. All pavement and stair with no yard On Friday, May 19, 2006, at 02:45 PM, Rick Knoble wrote: From: "Curt I've been seeing the throwaway mentality even during my house search. We looked at several >houses I was interested in that the realtors said "Oh you'd be better to just tear this down and build a >new one. This is EXCEEDINGLY common in the Chicagoland suburbs. An older home will be purchased on an average lot (1/4 -1/2 acre) for say, 400K or so. They auction off what they can of the house, tear down the rest and put up a McMansion that fills the lot. These things must be mortgaged to the hilt. ON suburb (Evanston I think) passed an ordinance to stop the practice because some of the architects of the community were students of Frank Lloyd Wright and these homes were slated for tear down . Rick Knoble '85 300 CD '87 190 DT ___ http://www.striplin.net For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net -- Clay Seattle Bioburner 1972 220D - Gump 1995 E300D - Cleo 1987 300SDL - POS - DOA The FSM would drive a Diesel Benz
Re: [MBZ] Tear Downs was Re: Tire Purchase
Same motivation used with buying big SUV's...but 10 times more wasteful of our resources. On 5/20/06, Peter Frederick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've often wondered what motivates a retired couple to build a 7000 sq. ft. house with three stories, when you know as well as I that they live in three rooms -- bedroom, kitchen, family room. The wag here says they pay someone to clean -- hope they stay rich! Peter ___ http://www.striplin.net For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net -- John Freer Palm Springs, CA 1992 500 SEL 143K "Stardust" 1985 380SL 143K "Blue Belle" 1996 Sidekick 57K "Kermit"
Re: [MBZ] Tear Downs was Re: Tire Purchase
I'll buy that, oil prices continue to rise it'll get harder to heat them and theres no good way to use an alternate heat source because they've only got metalbestos chimneys... I bet if they get some mold damage in them they're garbage because they're so tight the mold just hangs and makes people sick. Who cleans those houses anyway? The one we've made an offer on is 1100sq ft and I'm already thinking it'll be a pain to keep clean. -Curt Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 16:59:06 -0500 From: "R A Bennell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Tear Downs was Re: Tire Purchase To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Recent Fine Homebuilding magazine says the McMansions will be the future teardowns because no one will want them. Too big and expensive to maintain, heat etc. Randy B - New Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Call regular phones from your PC and save big. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat May 20 17:16:15 2006 Received: from pop-savannah.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([207.69.195.69]) by server5.arterytc5.net with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FhV3n-0003VF-Kl for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sat, 20 May 2006 17:16:15 + Received: from dialup-4.224.66.14.dial1.cincinnati1.level3.net ([4.224.66.14]) by pop-savannah.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #10) id 1FhV3i-0006w7-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sat, 20 May 2006 13:16:11 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Peter Frederick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 12:15:13 -0500 To: Mercedes Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus Subject: Re: [MBZ] Tear Downs was Re: Tire Purchase X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.6 Precedence: list Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Id: Mercedes Discussion List List-Unsubscribe: <http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: <http://striplin.net/pipermail/mercedes_striplin.net> List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 17:16:15 - I've often wondered what motivates a retired couple to build a 7000 sq. ft. house with three stories, when you know as well as I that they live in three rooms -- bedroom, kitchen, family room. The wag here says they pay someone to clean -- hope they stay rich! Peter
Re: [MBZ] Tear Downs was Re: Tire Purchase
A Dutch friend of mine referred to American home construction as "war emergency housing" -- the shoddy stuff thrown up at the end of WWII for temporary shelter. Most modern US home construction is horrible -- our house is my age (50) and isn't great, and it's MUCH better constructed, of materials unavailable now (2x12 douglas fir floor joists, for example). However, the crap built locally during the last big housing boom is still standing, much to my surprise, while the older, better materials stuff is decaying. Has something to do with termites and leaking roofs, I think. The McMansions won't survive being abandoned by the rich like the older luxury housing, as they cannot be cut up into apartments the way housing built before WWII can be. Peter
Re: [MBZ] Tear Downs was Re: Tire Purchase
R A Bennell wrote: Recent Fine Homebuilding magazine says the McMansions will be the future teardowns because no one will want them. Too big and expensive to maintain, heat etc. Some of them seem to be really cheaply constructed, too. Not built to last at all.
Re: [MBZ] Tear Downs was Re: Tire Purchase
Recent Fine Homebuilding magazine says the McMansions will be the future teardowns because no one will want them. Too big and expensive to maintain, heat etc. Randy B -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rick Knoble Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 4:45 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: [MBZ] Tear Downs was Re: Tire Purchase From: "Curt > I've been seeing the throwaway mentality even during my house search. We looked at several >houses I was interested in that the realtors said "Oh you'd be better to just tear this down and build a >new one. This is EXCEEDINGLY common in the Chicagoland suburbs. An older home will be purchased on an average lot (1/4 -1/2 acre) for say, 400K or so. They auction off what they can of the house, tear down the rest and put up a McMansion that fills the lot. These things must be mortgaged to the hilt. ON suburb (Evanston I think) passed an ordinance to stop the practice because some of the architects of the community were students of Frank Lloyd Wright and these homes were slated for tear down . Rick Knoble '85 300 CD '87 190 DT ___
[MBZ] Tear Downs was Re: Tire Purchase
From: "Curt > I've been seeing the throwaway mentality even during my house search. We looked at several >houses I was interested in that the realtors said "Oh you'd be better to just tear this down and build a >new one. This is EXCEEDINGLY common in the Chicagoland suburbs. An older home will be purchased on an average lot (1/4 -1/2 acre) for say, 400K or so. They auction off what they can of the house, tear down the rest and put up a McMansion that fills the lot. These things must be mortgaged to the hilt. ON suburb (Evanston I think) passed an ordinance to stop the practice because some of the architects of the community were students of Frank Lloyd Wright and these homes were slated for tear down . Rick Knoble '85 300 CD '87 190 DT
