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   tuffy | Feb 18, 2005 12:26am | #1

   The house that vinyl and polystyrene built. At least it's modest, unlike those monsters across the ballfield.

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   mjesseinc | Feb 18, 2005 12:31am | #2

   I was wondering how you would get out of the car on the right side of the garage?

   What have they got, 6" next to the overhead door.

    mike

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   reinvent | Feb 18, 2005 03:05am | #4

   Dont be so stupid. Cant you see its a motorcycle garage.;-)

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   hoagie | Feb 18, 2005 04:16am | #10

   Must be a rice burner. You'd never get a Harley in there!

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   highfigh | Feb 19, 2005 02:08am | #14

   You can get a Harley in there, just don't try to park a car afterward.
   "I cut this piece four times and it's still too short."

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   MisterSteve | Feb 18, 2005 03:04am | #3

   Even the mailbox is ugly.
   But I have seen worse.
   third grade architecture
   Your title is right-on

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   Nick25 | Feb 18, 2005 03:07am | #5

   It's hard to stop laughing. I know it's someones house but it's really funny to look at the right side of the garage

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   dieselpig | Feb 18, 2005 03:18am | #6

   That house is hilarious.  Love it!  I'd love to frame those things, but I don't know what I'd do with the second half of the day.  The right side of the garage is phenomenal.

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   CapnMac | Feb 19, 2005 02:19am | #16

   The right side of the garage is phenomenal.

   I can't help but think of the VHA "sheer" wall requirement for garages, which is 36" minimum, IIRC.

   Which makes me wonder what miracle materials are in there now to keep the door opening from racking.Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)

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   byrnesie | Feb 18, 2005 03:57am | #7

   CLASSIC!!!  This house is getting a workout like it's gone to the gym. Is there any way we could get them to move the light from the right side of garage door to right of front entry door. Also could they move the house #'s to the front door casing?

   I have customers who moved here from Chicago- I'm beginning to wonder if they got their "twang" from the overhead door spring rubbing the studs in their old garage! Also- where are the trashbarrels?

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   rez | Feb 18, 2005 04:03am | #8

   Whew, I'm betting that lot was so small with the set back requirments that they literally had to milk every inch.

   be glad it wasn't bigger.

   "Live Free,
         not Die"

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   mjesseinc | Feb 19, 2005 12:32am | #13

   There are several in the subdivision.

   I had to drive around and check it out

   Some of them have a 2 car garage, but I had to get a pic of that 1 car

   Maybe you get out in the driveway and then push it in :)mike

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   acfjr | Feb 18, 2005 04:13am | #9

   This house is really scary. The imbalance in the garage is a bit much. Maybe you are only allowed to store the trash can and tools on the left side in that town.

   The house actually reminds me of a comment a friend of mine made while driving past houses like this. In her finest cultured southern accent she said, "When it gets hot do these houses melt?"

   When I told a contractor friend who used to be a fireman that story, he said they actually burst into flame in a frightening way.

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   concretedetail | Feb 18, 2005 04:30am | #11

   Coupla theories here.

   They forgot to attach this addition to the house on the left of the photo.

   This is actually the lawnmower shed for the ballfield out back.

   That's no garage - it's the doggie door.

    

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   SteveInCleveland | Feb 18, 2005 04:39am | #12

   Any idea what that piece o' cr*p sold for?

    

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   mjesseinc | Feb 19, 2005 02:19am | #15

   I can't find any recent sales of that address, but everything else on the street that sold from 2004 to current is over $200kmike

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   SteveInCleveland | Feb 19, 2005 04:50am | #17

   "I can't find any recent sales of that address, but everything else on the street that sold from 2004 to current is over $200k"

   Same type of homes as the one pictured? 

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    brace | Feb 19, 2005 05:48am | #18

    Mjesse,
    Looks like a Denky house out by Gilberts I saw those when my wife and I were cruising I couldn't believe my eyes had to turn around and drive through the hack shack sub division. What 2 hundred k will buy these days some sucker actually thought it a good deal.

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    efix2 | Feb 19, 2005 05:58am | #19

    Could be worse,

    Around here (CT) they put plastic fences in front and then illuminate them with spotlights all night long!  (I am not kidding)

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   WorkshopJon | Feb 19, 2005 07:47am | #21

   Could be worse,

    

   Yeah, could be a trailer LOL.

   Around here (CT) they put plastic fences in front and then illuminate them with spotlights all night long! 

   Same here.  People move out to where I live in the country (ten years ago I had 2 neighbors), Now three subdivisions around me with illuminated "entrances"  to the subs and half the homes are all lit up....just like the city.

   WSJ

12. 
    RichColumbus | Feb 19, 2005 07:27am | #20

    Even worse... I can take you to a neighborhood in Columbus that has probably a hundred of these things in it... all side by side !  If I didn't know better... I would have first guessed it was a 1 fam-per condo community.  But no... they are all single family homes!

    A few of the other styles in the sub-division are even worse!!!

     

    FWIW.. these things sell for 135k+ in this neighborhood.. and the listing time is typically very short!

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   JerryHill | Feb 22, 2005 05:54am | #24

   You mean the ones where you could stand on the roof of one house and run through the entire development and never touch the ground.......jumping from house to house.

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    KaneoheBay | Feb 22, 2005 05:04am | #22

    I'm sure your title might be appropriate including comments from other BT'ers; however, I'm also quite sure the owners would have purchased a larger and fancier house if they could've. Obviously, this is a "starter" home for the owners.

    Lest we forget, every one of us started out in lesser homes than we now occupy (unless our parents or in-laws bankrolled out start up houses).

    butch

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   WayneL5 | Feb 22, 2005 05:36am | #23

   We understand.  But I think the point was that the home was built by scratch, new, and shows total disregard for the owners and neighbors.  The same budget could have produced a nice home if the builder had only cared and been competent.  There is no reason that people who purchase starter homes, newly constructed, should not have better for their money than that.

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   JerryHill | Feb 22, 2005 05:56am | #25

   VERY WELL STATED!

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   timkline | Feb 22, 2005 06:25am | #26

   yeah, but does it have a gift wrapping room ?

    carpenter in transition

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   brownbagg | Feb 22, 2005 06:29am | #27

   I like it. its like having a town house without the other houses.