Keep Your Eyes On This Listing

Trust me.

RE: Speedbumps

Appraiser Brad Edgar and I talked speed bumps last night at an Ellen Terry listing on Beverly that is so gorgeous, so incredibly well-built, I am  seriously thinking of becoming a House Manager just so I can love live there. (House Manager comes with the House!)  He said that in some neighborhoods, residents have actually jack-hammered out speed bumps. But if you decide to get them, be sure to install them on the property line so they will be out of the line of vision from the house. Who wants to look out their front window and see a big old cement BUMP.

RE: One-Walled Structures

Silly guys, those are mock-ups and not only do you build them to gauge light angles, you must see how the slate on your new roof flows with the Granbury,  Austin or Rock rock. (See corner Versailles and Preston.) Pure design function. You don’t keep them up after the  house is built.  Mother (in-law) gets the 5th bedroom suite behind the kitchen and it darn well better have a jacuzzi and widescreen TV.

A Question for Home Builders and/or People Who Like One-Walled Structures in Their Frontyard

Tim and I stoked each other’s curiosity as we drove by this house being built at the corner of Armstrong and Bryan. What’s up with the mini-house out front? It’s not even a mini-house, but barely more than a wall of a mini-house. I noticed that the wall’s progress reflects that of the larger project: When the house was just a wood frame, the wall was a wood frame. House gets a roof; wall gets a roof. Sheetrock; sheetrock.

Tim thought it might be a city-mandated structure. Something something about codes. I pointed out that other home projects did not have them. He now thinks it’s a really small mother-in-law suite. (LOL, right?)

Me? I think it’s a home-builder flourish—a way for passersby (and future owners) to see the level of completion. But certainly someone out there knows the answer(s). I posted this over on FrontBurner, too, to see if anyone over there knows.