I’ve been mulling over an addition to my house. I do still really WANT a garage for all of the garage stuff that suburban with kids life really requires. I live in a zero lot-line burb, but my house is on the corner and I could convert my garage and add a separate out-building for the garage. I’ve been advised that nobody will want to own the most expensive house in the neighborhood tho, so just moving a mile or two is a better financial decision.
We are about to clean out my grandparents farmhouse. It’s probably 150+ years old and was added onto at least once. No way would I want to live in it. It’d probably stand for another 100 years, but the layout is HORRIBLE, there’s one cramped bathroom, no closets at ALL and the bedrooms are TINY (plus wired without ground cabling… there are every other problem in the world with OLD houses. It’s also a big challenge that my “family” plot of land is +1000 miles from my current job.
A lot of those MegaMcMansions are actually what you’re talking about. My parents aren’t too many years away from needing to move in with me. We’ve discussed the fact that even if it’s until they have to go to a real “assisted” living facility that they might rather pay me rent towards a nicer house that would work for all of us.
another force acting upon me is the sickening realization that just about anyone selling a house right now on the open market who isn’t selective about who they’re selling it to is, all too often, letting it fall into the hands of some foreign billionaire’s real estate holdings firm where they will use it as a personal investment-speculation-based piggy bank and transform it into, at best, an airbnb where people are charged four figures per night OR at worst, nobody is allowed to live there just to drive up the value of their other properties through artificial scarcity.
I want to see people continuing to own property. Families continuing to own property. Not corporations asserting neofeudalism.
One of the municipalities not too far from me has put some onerous regulations on short term rentals and I’m SUPER hopeful that it catches on everywhere.
It’s an interesting concept.
I’ve been mulling over an addition to my house. I do still really WANT a garage for all of the garage stuff that suburban with kids life really requires. I live in a zero lot-line burb, but my house is on the corner and I could convert my garage and add a separate out-building for the garage. I’ve been advised that nobody will want to own the most expensive house in the neighborhood tho, so just moving a mile or two is a better financial decision.
We are about to clean out my grandparents farmhouse. It’s probably 150+ years old and was added onto at least once. No way would I want to live in it. It’d probably stand for another 100 years, but the layout is HORRIBLE, there’s one cramped bathroom, no closets at ALL and the bedrooms are TINY (plus wired without ground cabling… there are every other problem in the world with OLD houses. It’s also a big challenge that my “family” plot of land is +1000 miles from my current job.
A lot of those MegaMcMansions are actually what you’re talking about. My parents aren’t too many years away from needing to move in with me. We’ve discussed the fact that even if it’s until they have to go to a real “assisted” living facility that they might rather pay me rent towards a nicer house that would work for all of us.
another force acting upon me is the sickening realization that just about anyone selling a house right now on the open market who isn’t selective about who they’re selling it to is, all too often, letting it fall into the hands of some foreign billionaire’s real estate holdings firm where they will use it as a personal investment-speculation-based piggy bank and transform it into, at best, an airbnb where people are charged four figures per night OR at worst, nobody is allowed to live there just to drive up the value of their other properties through artificial scarcity.
I want to see people continuing to own property. Families continuing to own property. Not corporations asserting neofeudalism.
One of the municipalities not too far from me has put some onerous regulations on short term rentals and I’m SUPER hopeful that it catches on everywhere.