Lou Decruss wrote:
>
> 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

Oh, they're fine for profit purposes, but there is now way in hell (or
anywhere else) I could live on such a speck. I'm cramped on 4 acres
here, if I didn't have 65 acres elsewhere I'd probably be
claustrophobic.