Recent content by snake

We recently found a house we like but while in the offering process the mom of the owner, who was living in the house died in the house. Her death was for natural causes due to old age. We do understand that in the last phases of ones life everybody wants to die peacefully in his own place and...

Any custom builder if you have the money to build a good quality custom house. They will use rebars....go to newport beach or laguna beach and you will see. I tell you more...a very good quality house does not have a slab on grade but it generally has footings and better caissons and pillars as...

And by the way at least Toll brothers use the rebars for the footing  and the tendons have a much thicker plastic around them. Other builders looked to me having and using a much sloppier tendon. And in this video you can see what happens if even a single tendon...

It is done with post tension concrete because it is cheaper. Since forever? I am not sure about that.  They started using it extensively since 1999 and started in the 80s I guess. The 8'' max slab that they use will crack if the clay swells. Just to give you an idea I report something you can...

Mass production builders anywhere are all the same....quality is poor....houses are all carton boxes no matter if you buy orchard hills or any other place. I personally went and asked to a few of those builders to show me how they build their houses...from foundation to floor structure...

And from the article the numbers I have been told (land - house- builder mark up)do look like in the ball park.

Thank you for the links. Very useful. does this mean that in principle you would have a more stable (less leverage) value if you build an expensive house on a cheap lot? Say if you manage to get a lot for  250k and you build a house that costs 750k?

How many sq/f are we speaking about for the lot and the for the house? So what they quoted me is: 75k$ grading 300k$ foundation 225$  sq/f for a high quality house (very good plumbing, elec etc.) house is a bit more than 3000 sq/f So it comes to 325 to 350$ sq/f But the quality looks to me...

400 sq/f? Isn't that  a very high price? I got a 325$ sq/f for a custom house with 20 caissons and the whole structure in reinforced concrete not just wood on a slab.

Does anybody have an idea how the cost of an average house in irvine is broken down? Say for example for a 1M$ house Land=? House=?