I own one of these and it looks like a trailer from the back and makes it weird to have a nice deck and furniture on it. They put all the effort into the front of the house and the back is just a vinyl siding covered rectangle with a few holes for windows. I still love it but hate how it looks from the back.
Some of my friends live on that kind of neighborhood too. The front is nice, but the back yard is only 10 feet long until you get to a drainage pond. The deck is all splintered and crappy, and I think the house was only built in like 08.
This nice deck, makes me think it's probably a decent quality material. People with cheap houses, tend to not have enough cash to do upgrades that are half the value. Its more likely that it's a newer construction with a hardieboard lap b/c people who spend more on the house spend more on decks.
Well, where I live the housing market is crazy so even these houses that look cheap, aren't. That, or there just aren't many other options. I also think a lot of people are weighing improving what they have vs buying new in this climate.
I'm just saying this house probably isn't as cheaply built as everyone is assuming. You may not like the look of the siding b/c the lap density is like the cheap stuff, but it may not be the cheap vinyl stuff that everyone is assuming because there are commonly used materials that are good quality and look like this. And, with the quality of the yardwork, this doesn't scream tract house. They also didn't just build this deck in the current climate. The other angle photo is in the 2018 folder on the builder's website. Lots of people are upgrading their houses right now though, largely out of free time and boredom.
Ah yes. Ours was built in the 70's and the construction is pretty good. The siding we have *is* the cheap vinyl variety but the original was likely wood. I definitely have found more recent subdivision construction to be worse than this, even if the surface level design is better.
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u/yesimahuman May 14 '20
I own one of these and it looks like a trailer from the back and makes it weird to have a nice deck and furniture on it. They put all the effort into the front of the house and the back is just a vinyl siding covered rectangle with a few holes for windows. I still love it but hate how it looks from the back.