[quote=AN]flu, those houses with one acre in Sky Rranch do not have a full useable acre. I’d guess its around 1/3-1/2 acre of useable land and the rest is slope. Those houses alsso have wider foot print than your average tract homes. The side yard are also wider(which means more concrete than sod). The actual back yard space is around the same size as a 2000sq-ft single story on 1/4 acre in Solana Beach.[/quote]
Well, I have visited Santee but never visited the actual model homes (no interest)..So I’ll have to take your word for it that the 1 acre is not useable on those homes..But then this sort of contradicts SRO’s selling points about these homes.. Because one of those selling points was it’s situated on a 1 acre land. I’m not sure I understand what is the point of 1 acre of land, if most of it is slopes that’s not usable…It just doesn’t seem like it would be different from say a DH/Saratoga home that sits on a canyon for which the hills/slopes is controlled by HOA/city… In both cases, the land isn’t usable…In fact, I’d prefer if that’s the case, the land belongs to the HOA/city so that they can deal with the maintenance of it…Seems like it would be a maintenance headache, clearing brush, dealing with wildlife,etc that the homeowner has to deal with. I guess since technically the land belongs to the home, you *could* turn it into usual land…But then we’re not talking about something that is cheap to do (maybe another 100k+)…and definitely not something that is turnkey once you move in…which again, if someone were to spend money to do this, I would say probably puts that home out of the league of where it belongs…
Again, I don’t get it. I assume 1 acre means 1 acre of land that I could say raise a horse on. (not that I would). And also, not trying to slam Santee. I’m not suggesting it’s a dump or anything. It just seems like all the arguments for why this is a “great” deal just feels like it has so many holes. $800k is not a stellar deal of any sort in Santee. Not saying you can’t find buyers, but it doesn’t seem like it would be the norm…
I’d say places parts of Mira Mesa are a much better place to be frankly, with the total package of cost/location/convenience.
