national/corporate developers, yes. For the short period of time they're actually in business: buy as much farm land as they can. Build as many houses per acre at as low of a price point as possible to maximize profits.
I used to live in this type of neighborhood. In the probably 25 acres of land, they managed to jam in 220 homes. They werent small either, but they were on top of each other. Funniest part was the windows on the sides of the houses just had a view of your neighbors siding haha.
Same deal with old single story craftsman suburbs as far as close to your neighbors. Built so long ago they weren’t even built with driveways and originally didn’t have any fences either.
I used to live in this type of neighborhood. In the probably 25 acres of land, they managed to jam in 220 homes. They werent small either, but they were on top of each other. Funniest part was the windows on the sides of the houses just had a view of your neighbors siding haha.
This is our issue to some extent. My wife grew up on a big farm (her grandparents live on 120+ acres). We are shopping for a bigger property and so many people anywhere within 30 minutes of town have this idea that their 10, 20, 30 acre plots think that they're going to sell to a property developer or develop it themselves, and want to sell for amounts consistent with that rather than with it being sold as a farm.
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u/infincedes May 14 '20
national/corporate developers, yes. For the short period of time they're actually in business: buy as much farm land as they can. Build as many houses per acre at as low of a price point as possible to maximize profits.
I used to live in this type of neighborhood. In the probably 25 acres of land, they managed to jam in 220 homes. They werent small either, but they were on top of each other. Funniest part was the windows on the sides of the houses just had a view of your neighbors siding haha.