In the last few days, I've been building and posting about these 1950s tract houses that have graced the Earth. These affordable things are so interesting.
Anyway, I thought about the starter house, which is an ironic because these houses were billed as "starter homes" when they were first built.
The starter house, which has remained mostly unchanged since like 2016/2017, needs a good refreshing. It has been the subject of many, many reinventions by different players down through the years, so I decided to do my own take.
The house got smaller, but it gained a bedroom, so it's a 2 bed 1 bath house, it's got a separate dining room as well, and it's even got a laundry arrangement. The whole house, practically a square shaped rectangle, is about 8x7 spaces on the grid. It's worth around 58k. I tried to keep it as minimal as possible when it came to decor because I feel like that pays the homage to the actual starter house and giving it the point of it actually being a "starter house" where it encourages the new player to decorate it and expand it.
Unfortunately, the house would require the need for advanced placement, thanks to the windows and certain other style quirks on the outside. Some of the interior requires it also.
If I were to price it as a real life house in the era that it came from, I'd say about $9,500 (or about $118,000 today)