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Old 11-13-2017, 09:51 AM
 
Location: Frederick, CO
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I have noticed some new neighborhoods cropping up, mainly with the Richmond American Seasons Line, 3 bed, 2 baths in the Low 300's.

Whilst not as cheap as some other states, not bad for new construction in ok parts of towns. There is a new one going up in Thornton that will have easy access to the new rail line (when they finally get it together).

Anyone else noticed these around in other neighborhoods/areas?
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Old 11-13-2017, 05:42 PM
 
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I’ve noticed them as well and curious to hear others perspective on them as I am relocating in 2x months.
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Old 11-13-2017, 08:18 PM
 
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If they do it by reducing square footage, great. If it's by building crap...not so great.
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Old 11-13-2017, 08:28 PM
 
Location: Berkeley Neighborhood, Denver, CO USA
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If they do it by reducing square footage, great. If it's by building crap...not so great.
We are referring to Richmond—of course the houses are crap.
Larry only builds junk houses.
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Old 11-14-2017, 10:20 AM
 
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If they do it by reducing square footage, great. If it's by building crap...not so great.
The bulk of new construction in these endless housing tracts is crap, thrown up rapidly and will deteriorate just as rapidly.
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Old 11-14-2017, 11:59 AM
 
Location: Aurora Denveralis
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I don't know about here, but I lived in Northern California when cheap construction was rolling over the hills like dandelions - small towns surrounded by low hills became rolling hills of condo and box-house land. My wife often visited young families in these areas over a period of years, and she said you could visibly watch the construction disintegrate - siding warping, plastic architectural details cracking and coming loose, windows and sliders sticking, and of course continual problems with plumbing and HVAC.

I have never been sure which is worse - completely cheap construction, or the lipstick-on-a-pig model where the money goes into a faux "chef's kitchen" and Dynasty bathrooms while being sucked out of every other component.
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Old 11-14-2017, 02:14 PM
 
Location: Berkeley Neighborhood, Denver, CO USA
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the money goes into a faux "chef's kitchen"
Like this one.
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Old 11-14-2017, 02:36 PM
 
Location: OC
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I was looking at Avion at Denver Connection but their service was so bad that I wrote them off, which is probably the right thing to do as the schools are so/so there.
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Old 11-14-2017, 04:04 PM
 
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I agree that most tract housing is poorly built. My point is that the ones that compete on being lower-priced, saying "more house for the money," are usually the crappiest of all. They're only "more house" if all you're measuring is square footage, not things falling apart later, higher power bills, etc.
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Old 11-14-2017, 05:22 PM
 
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We are referring to Richmond—of course the houses are crap.
Larry only builds junk houses.
When buying a new home in COLO SPGS in 2005 our realtor forbid us to look at any R-A homes -- bad deals.
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