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Re:The McMansion Scale, Explained by carsongross on Thursday October 20, 2016 @10:27PM (#12757766)
Totally. Double the cost of the house materials to get bathroom downstairs and a proper master bedroom/bath and make everything bigger. It's still less that $100k. That's a lot of money left over for land, labor, air condition, electricity and all the rest.

You couldn't touch that today, as evidence by the fact that most new builds under $500k aren't even remotely comparable.

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Re:The McMansion Scale, Explained by zip1234 on Thursday October 20, 2016 @10:40PM (#12757814)
With kit homes is you do all the labor yourself. If that is factored in, you can get a bit closer. Menards, which is a home improvement retailer in the midwest, sells kits for homes still. See here: https://www.menards.com/main/building-materials/books-buildi... $70k in materials for a 1700 sq foot home.
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Re:The McMansion Scale, Explained by warfangle on Friday October 21, 2016 @08:19AM (#12759744)
And almost all of those fall in the 5-7 range oen the hell-o-meter.
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Re:The McMansion Scale, Explained by lscharen on Friday October 21, 2016 @09:34AM (#12760239)
Well, if you skipped the dormers, the Heathwood doesn't seem too terrible.
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Re:The McMansion Scale, Explained by hueving on Thursday October 20, 2016 @10:34PM (#12757792)
>new builds under $500k aren't even remotely comparable.

Look beyond crowded cities and $400k will buy you an amazing house. The cost is mainly in the land.

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Re:The McMansion Scale, Explained by acveilleux on Friday October 21, 2016 @12:08PM (#12761579)
Exactly, the it's the Land, not the structure. If the land is practically worthless, there's a ton of money left over to build on it.

The most telling in the prices you posted is that 758 sq. ft. house for 527k:

> Last sold: Jan 1973 for $25,000

That's $135,939.19 inflation adjusted to 2016 dollars. Where'd the remaining $390k of value come from (assuming house is in same relative shape.)

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