Well I am building a house. This thread may be a little pre-mature but I am excited. They wont be starting on it until mid march. Here is a pic of the floor plan.
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Well I am building a house. This thread may be a little pre-mature but I am excited. They wont be starting on it until mid march. Here is a pic of the floor plan.
needs a bigger garrage
Good lord is that thing gonna be on like a 40' wide lot?
Who's the builder?
the houses are not as tight as chadnutz's house. i bought the biggest lot my floorplan would fit on. the house is 70' long and has to be set 16' back for the driveway. my lot is 130' deep so i have a decent size back yard. many of the other lots are closer to 100' deep so it would be like no back yard
the builder is centex homes
about the same floor plan as a doublewide :flipoff2:
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Originally Posted by AggieTJ2007
No it's not, and quit knocking the guy, he's building a ****ing house. Congrats tate
it is going to be a pretty nice house. I dropped about 30k in extra options
The garage will be a little tight at 17x19 but i will make it work fine, and i added power to both sides of the wall in the garage, the ceiling and an aditional jack in the rear, also a dedicated single plug for the aircompressor which used to kill the breaker on my old house when used with lights ect.
Couldn't you have got the same house, but more spread out so it wasnt so long?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy
Or did you make it long and skinny so you could build a big gate next to the house to drive trucks into the back yard :gigem:
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Originally Posted by Snatch Adams
What size lot is sam's house on?
Mine is on a 45 or 50 I dont remember. Mine is 120 foot deep.
Looks cool tate.
Hers is on 77' ish. But hers is 3 "compartments" wide instead of 2 like yours and tates.
Glad you got the deeper lot tate, we already have a tiny ass backyard, and that wouldve been super tiny.
No way, the main door would be on the side and the garage would be detached on a doublewide! :flipoff2:Quote:
Originally Posted by AggieTJ2007
j/k congrats tate. :gigem:
Nah, looks great and congrats,
btw did you get a 220 outlet in the garage?
I went to look at some Outback Homes last weekend with Stef... The girl in the model looked at me funny when I told her that garage space and a flat driveway were important to me before I said anything about the inside...
That is why I only looked at 2 houses before buying. They were the only two in the area I could find with the right driveway and garage.
Well i went out and took some pics and measured the lot, it is 130' by 48' so you were pretty close on your guess. the reason it is long and not wide is because they dont have any lots out there that are that wide. i dont know if you know but realestate out here in sa has gone through the roof. as of right now it has not been annexed to sa so taxes are cheaper. i heard that across the road all the million$+ house owners are fighting annexation so if they win i could save 1% property tax
here is a link to some picsTate House
yes i know real estate is high out there, i watch flip this house, or that house or which ever one has those mexican dudes.
Congrat's Tate! Cool pics, the stone looks cool, is it going to be stucco as well?
no just stone and hardy plank over the windows
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Originally Posted by AggieTJ2007
i asked and they could not do it. stupid cookie cutter options only... i will be adding it pretty quickly
good deal man, congrats. finally gonna have a garage to put the bko in huh?
It'll look really nice with the stone all the way around it. Congrats.
Montelongo's?(Sp)Quote:
Originally Posted by Snatch Adams
Plugs in the garage weren't even an option in the house I live in. But my landlord asked the electrician to put one in for the deep freezer so we've got one. Get something better than sheetrock in the garage if you can. Wood sideing like for the outside of a house is good. I suppose you aren't worried about parking in the garage so the size should be fine.
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Originally Posted by afroman006
Who does that anyway? (on a house that they own) :)
Congrats Tate, that's awesome! I've been playing with Visio for the barn apartment build also.
it will be drywall in the garage... no other options on that matter, i might put plywood up over it or replace it but not right away, it isnt very high on my priority list. one problem with these homes is that they wont do certain things to keep prices down. all it really means is that i have to fix it after i move in.
I'm sure you have to have the drywall in the garage to get the fire rating between the house and the garage since the garage is connected to the rest of the house.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy
edit: Oh I just read what kopecki said, i dont think plywood is gonna give a high enough rating, if any.
Doesn't look like those houses are much more than 10ft apart to me. Glad to see I can't buy a house on a single income without being used as a comparison for other people's first homes. :flipoff2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy
agreed....ahh wtf....who said that...damn it!?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Chadnutz
You know you love me. :flipoff2:
some houses are only 10 ft apart and some are like 40 ft apart... looking closer at my lot it looks like mine is gonna be right at 10 ft
It's not so bad. I have awesome neighbors on both sides. One is a family but they are all really nice and help me out before I even ask. When my trees were recently planted I forgot and left the water on one of them on a windy day. The ground got so wet that it fell over. I was in the shower and one of them held the tree up while the other knocked on the door until I answered. They also let me put everything from my garage in theirs so I could paint my floor, and they would bring me bags of sawdust to soak up oil at the end of each day that they worked on their deck.
My other neighbors are a 22 and 23 year old couple. We go out a lot and they invite me over for food a lot. I only have basic cable, so when big sports games come on I watch them with those two. I also borrow their shop vac whenever I work with wood. It's nice to just hop off my porch and then hop onto theirs whenever I need something.
If your neighbors are cool, then the proximity doesn't matter. If they suck...well that's another story.
I like keeping my friends close and my enemies closer but my neighbors at least 20 feet away...errrr something. :confused:
with neighbors that close, who needs roommates? seriously though, they're being nice b/c you basically live with them. it's the same as feeling obligated to listen to at least the first half of your roommates horribly boring, unintelligible stories. pretty soon, it becomes the first half sentence. then its all over.
well i dont know who is living next door to me yet because they haven't even broken ground but what i have seen so far is a bunch of young couples... it is so suberbia with little youngins playing in the street
Have you checked the traffic on Bulverde road during rush hour?
bulverde isnt bad but the shorter way for me is to take 281 which sucks at rush hour