re: #132 austin_blue
Mine is 1950. REAL 2x4’s. Pier and beam with big cement castings holding up the piers on solid limestone. 68 years old, flat as a strap. Random-shaped limestone clad, metal roof. Jalousie windows flanking 6’ x 6’ plate glass on the front. Just under 1,200 sq ft in the front, a 2 car garage finished out in the back (1-1) and a 2-1 up front. Nice house. We bought it in ‘97 for $155. Don’t even ask what it’s actually worth, now, but north of $800.
Hence the $1,000+/month property taxes.
Sounds great.
Believe it or not, Art Deco and Moderne were actually fairly popular in Lubbock during the 30s and 40s. There are some great examples there that go begging on the market. The reason is that they are now in “bad” neighborhoods, ie too many brownish folk. The yokels therefore prefer newly built housing. New=white. I am convinced that white flight is at least as important as population growth in promoting the endless expanses of shoddy tract houses and ghastly mcmansions. The jokes on them, their gimcrack boxes will be long gone in a hundred years, while yours and mine will probably be standing proudly in their second and third centuries..