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Netyaroze on 06 April 2013
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mrstickball said:
Netyaroze said:
thranx said:
Netyaroze said:
mrstickball said:
I live in rural Ohio. Those prices are a joke.

I can build a 4,000 square foot mansion for half of those prices.

Here's a 7,000 square foot house in my town for ~$450,000 USD: http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/130-Sylvan-Ct_Circleville_OH_43113_M35022-37149?ex=OH549960133

It's been on market for a year because its too expensive. I'm sure those prices may be reasonable in London or somewhere that you have to pay lots of money for things, but where I live, those prices are a joke.


Those prices are no joke. I bet I could easily drive with a truck through this house you posted. 450k ? This house can not be good. Even if you exclude paper thin walls, cheap basic materials, and sucky isolation. Whats the Interior made out of ? Legos ?

 

A house of that size has 4 kitchens ? 4 Bathrooms. 1 kitchen costs 50k. 1 Bathroom 25k. Does it have a basement ? What are the floors made of, are they heated ?  

 

Its a huge house but the material costs of our smaller house exceed its price, not even talking about land, location, furniture or the cost of the guys building it. Just bricks floors woodwork glass stones. 


it doesnt say it has four kitchens. from the pictures the house looks nice. It does have a basement. there are pictures and info in the link if you go to it. all of your questions are answered. Probably no heated floors, not very big in america.


Hmm its extremly big but what worries me is the price. It can't be that cheap. I doubt it has the same buildquality as houses around here. Unless americans somehow get raw materials 10 times cheaper. The only way I can make sense of it is if the house is more like a movie prop and less like a house.


We do get materials and labor a lot cheaper. We havea ccess to huge amounts of timber that the UK would have to otherwise import. The same goes for most materials. Plasterboard that is manufacturered in the same place is about 30-40% cheaper in the US.

Do realize that our builders aren't incompetent. Building codes in Florida require all houses to be hurricane-resistant.


I am not from the UK we have wood up our asses. Plasterboard is not really what I count as costfactor its cheap around here too. I am not even sure we used plasterboard much. This house is 450k my parents house just the tiles for the floors were 100k and since the stone is from Italy I bet we got it cheaper.

 

I was there as a kid when my parents build the house and just the glass for the windows was crazy expensive. And the materials can't be 10 times cheaper in the US. Its like saying yeah gold is 10 times cheaper in the USA. Those are world wide similar prices.

And seriously Hurricane resistant ? I see it on TV how resistant those houses are. If a Hurricane would cross a house around these parts I guess it could damage the rooftop. I would really love to see what a Hurricane could do to my parents house. 

My point is, in 300 years this house will be gone nothing will remain. Ours will still stand. Heck a friend of mine lives in a house thats 500 years old.

 

Its really pointless to compare houses from rural USA to european stone/brick houses. It takes way longer to build  more work and costs way more. In Europe the stuff is all massive and the materials high quality. That makes it look expensive. We also have the US trend of building Paperhouses for the poor, american style. You can't really judge a book by its cover. Same with houses.