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AN, Mira Mesa is not a good choice for a teardown/custom rebuild because the fundamentals are not in place there to make it worth your while. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe MM to be entirely on tract.[/quote]
How much of a house have to be replaced before a house is no longer a tract home? I.E. If one increase the foot print of the house, or add a second story, or move around walls to a point where the layout is nothing like any other house on the tract. Would these be considered custom in your eyes?

MM might not be a good teardown custom rebuild candidate for people who are looking to buy and teardown right now. However, I see quite a few major remodel (increase foot print or 2nd story addition) done by people who bought 30-35 years ago. Those people have it paid off. It’s much cheaper to remodel the house to the way they like it vs trying to find another place that fit 100% of what they need/want.

Yes, MM is 99.9% tract. There are a few complete rebuilt due to fire or what not. There are a few that had major remodel. I consider that custom but you might not. There are houses that basically double their original sq-ft by increasing the footprint and 2nd story addition.

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[quote=bearishgurl]
AN, Mira Mesa is not a good choice for a teardown/custom rebuild because the fundamentals are not in place there to make it worth your while. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe MM to be entirely on tract.[/quote]
How much of a house have to be replaced before a house is no longer a tract home? I.E. If one increase the foot print of the house, or add a second story, or move around walls to a point where the layout is nothing like any other house on the tract. Would these be considered custom in your eyes?

MM might not be a good teardown custom rebuild candidate for people who are looking to buy and teardown right now. However, I see quite a few major remodel (increase foot print or 2nd story addition) done by people who bought 30-35 years ago. Those people have it paid off. It’s much cheaper to remodel the house to the way they like it vs trying to find another place that fit 100% of what they need/want.

Yes, MM is 99.9% tract. There are a few complete rebuilt due to fire or what not. There are a few that had major remodel. I consider that custom but you might not. There are houses that basically double their original sq-ft by increasing the footprint and 2nd story addition.

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[quote=CA renter]I’d agree with BG’s definitions. A true “custom” home is one that’s uniquely built from the ground-up. It is not a “modified” tract, which some builders try to classify as “custom”.

I desperately wish we could go back to the days when families could buy their own lots and build their own, custom homes, however funky they may be. I HATE the big developers who’ve sucked up all of our land inventory, only to parcel it out and sell crappy, boxy, stucco boxes on tiny lots — with HOAs and Mello-Roos to boot. Yuck!!!![/quote]
I thought BG’s definition is a “custom” home can’t even be in a sea of tract home, even if it was uniquely built from the ground up? Example would be those houses in Scripps that were burnt and got rebuilt. The area are full of tract houses, but the houses that were rebuilt got rebuilt uniquely from the ground up.

Like you, I would love to go back to the days where families could buy their own lots and build their own custom homes. Unfortunately, custom lots these days are all HUGE and in far flung places. Too bad big developers have been putting up tract houses in all the places I want to live in for the last 40-50 years and I don’t see the trend reversing. My only real option is to modify one of the tract house and “customize” it to my want/needs. To me, customizing a custom home and customizing a tract home will be the same result, which is a custom home to fit my needs/wants.

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[quote=CA renter]I’d agree with BG’s definitions. A true “custom” home is one that’s uniquely built from the ground-up. It is not a “modified” tract, which some builders try to classify as “custom”.

I desperately wish we could go back to the days when families could buy their own lots and build their own, custom homes, however funky they may be. I HATE the big developers who’ve sucked up all of our land inventory, only to parcel it out and sell crappy, boxy, stucco boxes on tiny lots — with HOAs and Mello-Roos to boot. Yuck!!!![/quote]
I thought BG’s definition is a “custom” home can’t even be in a sea of tract home, even if it was uniquely built from the ground up? Example would be those houses in Scripps that were burnt and got rebuilt. The area are full of tract houses, but the houses that were rebuilt got rebuilt uniquely from the ground up.

Like you, I would love to go back to the days where families could buy their own lots and build their own custom homes. Unfortunately, custom lots these days are all HUGE and in far flung places. Too bad big developers have been putting up tract houses in all the places I want to live in for the last 40-50 years and I don’t see the trend reversing. My only real option is to modify one of the tract house and “customize” it to my want/needs. To me, customizing a custom home and customizing a tract home will be the same result, which is a custom home to fit my needs/wants.

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[quote=CA renter]I’d agree with BG’s definitions. A true “custom” home is one that’s uniquely built from the ground-up. It is not a “modified” tract, which some builders try to classify as “custom”.

I desperately wish we could go back to the days when families could buy their own lots and build their own, custom homes, however funky they may be. I HATE the big developers who’ve sucked up all of our land inventory, only to parcel it out and sell crappy, boxy, stucco boxes on tiny lots — with HOAs and Mello-Roos to boot. Yuck!!!![/quote]
I thought BG’s definition is a “custom” home can’t even be in a sea of tract home, even if it was uniquely built from the ground up? Example would be those houses in Scripps that were burnt and got rebuilt. The area are full of tract houses, but the houses that were rebuilt got rebuilt uniquely from the ground up.

Like you, I would love to go back to the days where families could buy their own lots and build their own custom homes. Unfortunately, custom lots these days are all HUGE and in far flung places. Too bad big developers have been putting up tract houses in all the places I want to live in for the last 40-50 years and I don’t see the trend reversing. My only real option is to modify one of the tract house and “customize” it to my want/needs. To me, customizing a custom home and customizing a tract home will be the same result, which is a custom home to fit my needs/wants.

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[quote=CA renter]I’d agree with BG’s definitions. A true “custom” home is one that’s uniquely built from the ground-up. It is not a “modified” tract, which some builders try to classify as “custom”.

I desperately wish we could go back to the days when families could buy their own lots and build their own, custom homes, however funky they may be. I HATE the big developers who’ve sucked up all of our land inventory, only to parcel it out and sell crappy, boxy, stucco boxes on tiny lots — with HOAs and Mello-Roos to boot. Yuck!!!![/quote]
I thought BG’s definition is a “custom” home can’t even be in a sea of tract home, even if it was uniquely built from the ground up? Example would be those houses in Scripps that were burnt and got rebuilt. The area are full of tract houses, but the houses that were rebuilt got rebuilt uniquely from the ground up.

Like you, I would love to go back to the days where families could buy their own lots and build their own custom homes. Unfortunately, custom lots these days are all HUGE and in far flung places. Too bad big developers have been putting up tract houses in all the places I want to live in for the last 40-50 years and I don’t see the trend reversing. My only real option is to modify one of the tract house and “customize” it to my want/needs. To me, customizing a custom home and customizing a tract home will be the same result, which is a custom home to fit my needs/wants.

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[quote=CA renter]I’d agree with BG’s definitions. A true “custom” home is one that’s uniquely built from the ground-up. It is not a “modified” tract, which some builders try to classify as “custom”.

I desperately wish we could go back to the days when families could buy their own lots and build their own, custom homes, however funky they may be. I HATE the big developers who’ve sucked up all of our land inventory, only to parcel it out and sell crappy, boxy, stucco boxes on tiny lots — with HOAs and Mello-Roos to boot. Yuck!!!![/quote]
I thought BG’s definition is a “custom” home can’t even be in a sea of tract home, even if it was uniquely built from the ground up? Example would be those houses in Scripps that were burnt and got rebuilt. The area are full of tract houses, but the houses that were rebuilt got rebuilt uniquely from the ground up.

Like you, I would love to go back to the days where families could buy their own lots and build their own custom homes. Unfortunately, custom lots these days are all HUGE and in far flung places. Too bad big developers have been putting up tract houses in all the places I want to live in for the last 40-50 years and I don’t see the trend reversing. My only real option is to modify one of the tract house and “customize” it to my want/needs. To me, customizing a custom home and customizing a tract home will be the same result, which is a custom home to fit my needs/wants.

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