Is he serious 😂

All the new houses going up around me look like that. Except for the ones that take up almost the entire lot so they can cram a 4,000sq ft house on a quarter acre.

Everything today is starting to suck because they're all min/maxing. Cars are all egg shaped SUVs or boxy trucks. Movies are all reboots, sequels, prequels, or live-action remakes. TV shows are epic fantasies or raunchy animated comedies or dark supernatural dramas. Because that's what all the metrics say will provide the best ROI.

I wish this Gilded Age were half as original as the last one.

it's got that mcmansion roofline without the size. it's just a sucky house in a shitty suburban hell. I bet the owner can't even legally use all the land they bought to make a vegetable garden

It looks like a garage with a house attached to it rather than the other way round.

My dream house is 80% garage/workshop.

But yeah, this one looks strange. I think because the garage juts out forward.

Do not underestimate how nice your house can be inside when you have adequate storage space for things you dont want on display. Does need some landscaping though.

They ought to be glad that their car is letting them stay with it.

I also dislike this look.

My garage is back behind my house on the alley as it should be. What lunatic ever thought moving the carriage house to the front was a good idea?

Also...this is a plastic box. Why do people want to live in plastic boxes?

just needs like a doghouse or two on the upstairs to the front and it would look wayyyyu better

This actually looks kind of quaint to me. Now the house would be on top of the garage and there would be six of them and the trees would be gone. I'd feel like a prince of the world if I had a 3% mortgage on this.

The problem is WE CAN'T TELL.

I text the home buyers back and ask for $400,000 cash or no deal. For some reason their enthusiasm drops right after, but they still keep texting me.

Is it uncommon? I feel like I see them all the time.

We just have a lot of houses, and a lot of space which makes it so you can feasibly have a generously sized single story house.

There's also a trend towards making the basement comfortably livable in a lot of areas.

Ranches were popular in the 80s and 90s when US boomers were buying "forever homes".

For everywhere and everyone else, the foundation and roof are the most expensive part of the building so it makes the most sense to double or triple your square footage between those by building 2 or 3 stories.

Stairs are for healthy people.

population density is much lower, so land is much cheaper, and multi story houses are harder to build.

so you just use more land for your house.

Also extreme weather is more common in the US. single story houses are more susceptible to this

Where are you looking? This very well is likely regional. I grew up in the Midwest and every house in my neighborhood had at least two floors, usually more like 3 (ground floor, finished basement, 2nd story).

Communities built for older people often only have one floor due to mobility issues and parts of the country (most of the south) do not have basements. If you’re relying on film/television then it’s likely they’re not filming in the parts where basements are common.

In North America, cellars usually are found in rural or older homes on the coasts and in the South. However, full basements are commonplace in new houses in the Canadian and American Midwest and other areas subject to tornado activity or requiring foundations below the frost line.

Wait till interest hits the high numbers. This will motivate your tenants to work extra hard for rent and make them richer in the long run.

Get another debt. It will motivate you!