On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:26:44 -0600, "Pete C." >
wrote:

>Dan Abel wrote:
>>
>> In article >,
>> "modom (palindrome guy)" > wrote:
>>
>> > On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:14:45 -0500, "Nancy Young" >
>>
>> > >I guess. Freeze them? And I'm curious, what is a standard lot in Texas?
>>
>> >
>> > I believe a standard lot here in Cow Hill is around 75 by 150 feet.
>>
>> Standard lots do vary a lot. When we bought our house, it was 60' X
>> 100'. Ours was 60' X 90'.
>>
>> We got a cheap price, so I didn't feel cheated.
>>
>> I worked in San Francisco for a year. The houses I saw all had 25' lot
>> widths. If you wanted to go in the back yard, you had to go through the
>> house. There was no other access. I talked to a fireman there. They
>> had to be very aggressive about putting out fires. You couldn't just
>> let it burn. It wasn't one house, it was the whole block.
>
>a 25' wide "lot" is not a lot, it's a speck.

Those "specks" are how Chicago lots were divided in the early 1900's.
I have a friend who had two of them. He inherited both. The original
cost was about $7,000 for both to the ancestor who originally
purchased them. My friend charged neighbors to park on them and made
enough to pay the taxes and have the lawn mowed. He recently sold
them for almost half a million dollars. I guess the "speck" wasn't in
his eye.

Lou