For Real Men Only
 

U boyz can fool around with cars all U like...but this is for the REAL MEN.... There is an old saying that you can tell what a man is about by 3 things...His Shoes, His Wife, and His House. Well this is about Houses. This is arguably the BEST HOME BUILDER IN LV. Even my Construction Defect Attorney owns one of these homes in Belacre. Take your time and go through the various Models and Slide shows. My Personal favorite Single Story is the Cezanne...thats the house I would own with some modifications, also the Monticello for a little smaller home is nice. For the 2 story home I think the Rothschild is the nicest. Pick your favorite and post your choich with some reasons why you like it the best. Lottey tickets will be on sale in the lobby. www.christopherhomes.com

real men build their own houses. ;)

tabs... who the hell would pay $600k for a 3 bedroom, 3000 sq ft home in Vegas? I thought it was supposed to be cheap out there, in order to endure the 120 degree summers. For that kind of money you could own a much nicer home in Corona, less than an hour from skiing or the beach. The shnizzle is out of control out there, me thinks.

Why are you soliciting business on this forum? My understanding is this kind of activity is prohibited. :(

for $600k, it better be in a 100+ acre tract

C'mon. Everyone knows the last real "man's house" was The Ponderosa.

Southfork Ranch was sort of "manly," but you had to throw out that sissy little brother, Bobby, first.

Manly? I plan to buy a surplus missile silo, cover the entire surrounding property with bouncing betties, and secede from the Union.

$600k?? Hmmm, I got 3200 SF plus full-finished basement and 2 acres abutting a ski resort and 2 golf courses for close to 1/2 that ..... on the other hand, we don't have all that many discount buffets around here .....

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1076034608.jpg

Blue..I like your style...We have one man who did just that (except for the bouncing betties) down here and lives, if I remember correctly, 75 feet below ground. View is lousy, but A/C and heat are cheap!!!!

Tabs...I would really have to think about that kind of money for that size house. Mine is admittedly old, built in 1963, but has 10" thick burnt adobe walls, insulation, dual cooling, over 2500 square feet, in the 'burbs, and cost 1/6 of that. New homes here although admittedly made of sticks, styrofoam, chicken wire and spit sell for under $70 a square foot, and less than that the bigger the house. Economies of scale. We do have a builder that, for an additional 10 to 15k will build the entire house out of concrete block, eliminate wooden roof joists and replace with steel and guarantee heating/cooling costs at far less than a dollar a day. It would be interesting to break down the cost of materials for this builder's homes.

I took a tour through the Titan Missile Museum and couldn't help feeling like a hobbit who'd returned home after a long journey. ;)

Fun place, huh! For a while after I went there I had the launch code memorized, but it escapes me now. :)

JCM

I think I need to start lookng for a job in Michigan! How far from the closest track?

Yeah, but I bet you have clearer ARTERIES!

Or this one in Castro Valley, CA on a busy corner right across the street from a middle school - and my house is twice as big just a few blocks away:

http://www.realtor.com/FindHome/HomeListing.asp?snum=2&frm=bymap&st=CA&typ=1%2C+2% 2C+3%2C+4%2C+5%2C+6%2C+7&poe=realtor&mnbed=0&mnbat h=0&mnprice=500000&mxprice=550000&js=off&pgnum=1&f id=so&mnsqft=&mls=xmls&ct=Castro+Valley&areaid=378 43&sid=0243E2E648E3C&snumxlid=1033328486&lnksrc=00 002

living in the bay area is like a friggen badge of honor. i dont think you can get a bunch of us together without a discussion on real estate coming up. that house in michigan is astounding. i love it. do you own the helicopter that took the photo? wow! Billypilgrim, that is the funniest ad that illustrates our lives. i wont even post a photo of my home, although it does have a one car garage, and i just recently had it painted. it is actually coming together. tabs, make us shutup and buy one of those houses. if not, you are only showing off nothing. no real man would do that, now would they?
cliff.

Under $350. One of the most desireable locations in the county. All brick, completely custom interior. There are advantages to living in Michigan. ;) The photo doesn't show the entire lot either - it extends back quite a ways from the fence.

Of course, the helicopter view today would be completely white. Haven't been able to get the 911 out in 3 weeks ...... :(

I told you boyz LV wasn't cheap anymore. Land is going for about 300K an acre. Christoper Homes will build a custom home starting at $115 a sq ft on your lot. Cost of building a nice custom is about $100 a sq ft here or in CA plus land. Houses here in LV are so close together that you can hear your neighbor flush in the mornining, and in some tracts you can actually hear him fire his missles from the silo.

Christopher homes are nice in that they sit on Golf Courses, and include a membership. BTW those developments that are on his website are nearly all sold out, mostly custom lot sites are left. Further if Christopher were to open a development up here in the NW part of LV, I think I would buy one. They would be cheaper up here. Remember it's location, location, location. The advantage of buying one of his homes is that your guarnteed a homogenous neighborhood, whereas if you built a clone on your own lot somewhere you can't guarntee that you won't wind up being behind a Walmart someday.

What I liked about Tucson was how spread out the home were for the most part, but THERE IS NO GREEN.

****cula....La Cresta ....or Central Coast by Cambria are the places I'd seriously look at in CA. But for me it all depends on the finial outcome of my lawsuit???? Until then I can only look. And Christoper is the best so far.

OH BTW: For U boyz in CA, if Arnold the Governator isn't successfull in floating his Bond Issue, ...CA might as well slide into the sea.

"remember its location, location, location"

Damn straight it is !!!! $300K an acre? someone is getting the royal a$$ f-in on that deal. I can think of few places I'd rather invest $300k.
Vegas sucks http://www.pelicanparts.com/support/...oilet_claw.gif

5 years from now... I look across the Vegas valley... and see a huge ghost town.

Nice house....but you must live out in the boonies.


Try looking at realtor.com for Grosse Pointe or Birmingham, Michigan. $300K gets you jack$hit.

(or you can look at Troy, Rochester, Bloomfield Hills, etc., etc.....you can get nice homes for decent prices, but you've got to live an hour from anything urban...)

Also for real men:D http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1076084992.jpg

LOL! Isabo.

Fanastic....

Looks like you got your answer. Investing $600K for a single (owner occupy) LV home is insane - unless you plan to live there till you croak. If you don't mind a "cooler than LV summer" and "warmer than LV winter" look to Temecula - wineries, mountains, skiing, desert, shopping, and yes even the ocean is an easy 1 hour drive away. Sandwiched between two of the largest markets (LA and SD) you can't miss. Did I mention the golf? New homes are still selling in the $390K and then way, way, way up range. Of course considerations have to be taken if you commute daily to SD or LA, but work that into the deal with your employer - partial out of home, broadband, flexible hours, etc...

Why'd you move to Vegas anyway? I mean, aside from whatever taxes could be saved in LV, there's so much better-bang-for-the- buck real estate in other places throughout the US.

Hell, I'd move to Costa Rica if I had 600K to blow. I'd buy a whole town and have virgins set at my feet.

Finally dug up the courage to look at those 'Christopher Homes'

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Now i have seen the bottom of the barrel and it ain't pretty.

Are these guys for real. If so luxury and taste come from a different dictionary to the one I use.

Finally dug up the courage to look at those 'Christopher Homes'

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Now i have seen the bottom of the barrel and it ain't pretty.

Are these guys for real. If so luxury and taste come from a different dictionary to the one I use.

LV has 6000 people a month coming here, with no end in sight. CA might very well implode, lots of businesses are relocating to NV. The Dems have raped CA, virtually killed the Golden Goose. Lots of people love it here because there isn't any white stuff on the ground during the winter.

As far as style goes LV looks to LA for it's direction. As Detroit and Chicago looks to NYC. It is kind of vapid here.

Home design in CA etc goes through cycles in the 50's and 60's it was the Ranch style sprawling single story. In the 70's it was the CA Spanish/ Mexican with the Red tile Roofs, in the 80's and 90's it switched to a Italian/French Med look. Today it has gone to Spanish revival of the 20's, Med revival of the 20's...Wallace Nef.. Prairie School .. FL Wright.

I look at floor plan, when I buy a home. I personally like the Spanish revival of the 20's. Question I have to ask myself is will it age well, is the design timless or just trendy?

LV, the new LA, coming soon!

Hardly the boonies, got every conceivable big box store and chain restaurant about 8-10 miles away. Most of the homes in the immediate vicinty are $500k+. I'm kinda slummin' it ..... I am in Detroit metro on business 3 days a week and am very familiar with the ridiculous real estate values down there. My house on a somewhat equivilant 2 acre lot (are there ANY 2 acre lots next to a ski resort and golf course there? doubtful) would be well over $1,000,000 down there!

Curt, I shudder to think what your property would cost if it was located in the DC metro area, say in a 'burb such as McLean or Great Falls. :eek:

Hey where in Mihigan do U live...ahh maybe up around Van Dyke and 24 Mile road????

Van Dyke and 24 mile????? That's cookie cutter plastic palace yuppie-vil man!!!!!! Go another 80-90 miles north. Hey, we got casinos here too now!!!!!! :)

Up towards Harbor City? ANyway 24th and Van Dyke is right near Decker....as in "I got bombed in the Decker bar!"

Decker???????????? OK, that's it! You're not going to try to pin me with the Oklahoma City bombing! That's where Tim McVay and his cohorts practiced igniting fertilizer ....... besides, $350K there would likely buy the general store, the fillin station and all 50 double-wides .......

Re: For Real Men Only
 

Tabs,
OK, enough about houses, please tell us about your shoes and your wife.

You guys want to hear crazy house prices, come to Boston. A house went up next to me on a 1/2 acre lot. Pref fab and put together so poorly I couldn't believe it. It sold for 600K 2600sf...Yikes...and unlike our friends in CA, we have to pay big $$$$ to heat houses out here...

Tabs..I got a lawn on my back yard. That is where most Tucsonans have their "green". The fronts in where we put the low maintenance landscape rock and cactus....Next time you are in the Tucson area, go up the mountains. You want green? And snow? Got it all in an 18 mile radius from my adobe hacienda.

Nice house in Michigan. But, I am a transplant from the great rustbelt. Won't go back unless it is a family emergency. Have had it with ice, snow, sleet, and the COLD!! I wouldn't trade my house out here for a 300k unit anywhere in the North. I can work outside year round.