Oh pshaw, on Tue 27 Nov 2007 04:15:41p, Pete C. meant to say...

> 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.
>

It's all in what you used to.

--
Wayne Boatwright

Date: Monday, November(XI) 26th(XXVI),2007(MMVII)

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