>>I have never said that old houses were always built better than new ones, although the huge tracks of ugly
flat-tops with plaster-board walls that I remember from childhood, now aging rapidly and creating new slums,
certainly weren't constructed very well. Obviously, with modern technology a careful, dedicated builder has
the knowledge and tools to make vastly superior dwellings. I just like the old ones better, on a totally
emotional level.
I have a fantasy, if I ever SCOOOORE on the mkt and raise, say a mil.
It involves buying out a fairly scummy twelveplex down here on the Peninsula, entirely for its location. Bulldoze it. Build a new apt 'plex in its place. Covered parking, and ceilings and walls constructed in the European idiom. Basically, if the nineteen-yr-old one floor up has a drum set or an electric guitar, you'd need to open his *and* your windows to find out. I think (I imagine, I theorize, I engage in reverie) that apts. built to a high standard of acoustic and thermal privacy would attract discerning buyers. Whaddyall think? FT? Del? |
