East Village New Construction

[Gistok]

I'm glad that the area around Indian Village is being infilled. Great to see!!

However, due to the narrow lots, these homes are seriously lacking in curb appeal. Especially at that price!

[DetroiterOnTheWestCoast]

I'm glad that the area around Indian Village is being infilled. Great to see!!

However, due to the narrow lots, these homes are seriously lacking in curb appeal. Especially at that price!

I suppose some folks would like the low upkeep of a narrow lot. I wonder how difficult it would be to convert three 30 feet wide lots into two 45’s?

[royce]

I suppose some folks would like the low upkeep of a narrow lot. I wonder how difficult it would be to convert three 30 feet wide lots into two 45’s?

If you own three consecutive lots, then you should be able to take two of them and make two houses with 45 feet lots. I know you probably have to get permit approval from the zoning board. At one time I heard that in order to build a single-family home in some areas in Detroit, that you had to use two lots which equals a 60 foot-wide lot. I don't know if that's the case today.

BTW, these new houses on Fisher have two-car garages that you enter through the alley, but you have no decent backyard. I would say that you have maybe 15 feet of backyard space from the house to the garage. There's not a lot of room between the houses, so not a lot of lawn to cut. Unless the houses come with association fees, the amount of lawn is not enough to have a service do. The homeowner could probably cut the grass with a manual-lawnmower and be done in a half hour.

[mwilbert]

I'm glad that the area around Indian Village is being infilled. Great to see!!

However, due to the narrow lots, these homes are seriously lacking in curb appeal. Especially at that price!

I doubt curb appeal is what they are shooting for. No one's going to build stuff that can compete with the existing housing stock in the area for curb appeal--you can see nicer-looking houses in the background of the listing photos! I'm assuming that these will be sold as an alternative to renting for people who don't want a lot of maintenance issues-- a new, not too large house on a small lot is presumably exactly what such people would want.

[Gistok]

I doubt curb appeal is what they are shooting for. No one's going to build stuff that can compete with the existing housing stock in the area for curb appeal--you can see nicer-looking houses in the background of the listing photos! I'm assuming that these will be sold as an alternative to renting for people who don't want a lot of maintenance issues-- a new, not too large house on a small lot is presumably exactly what such people would want.

My question in that regard is this... which is more expensive... 1) having no driveway/garage and parking on the street [how much will that up your car insurance?]... or 2) having a larger lot with garage and paying for lawn service?

Lawn service in the warm months isn't all that much for a normal sized middle class house... while car insurance with no garage is going going to be a lot for certain zip codes in Detroit...

By me in St. Clair Shores, a normal sized lot [50 ft. wide] costs on average $29 per week for lawn service. I'm just wondering... since I don't know the specifics in the Indian Village zip code.

[ABetterDetroit]

My question in that regard is this... which is more expensive... 1) having no driveway/garage and parking on the street [how much will that up your car insurance?]... or 2) having a larger lot with garage and paying for lawn service?

Lawn service in the warm months isn't all that much for a normal sized middle class house... while car insurance with no garage is going going to be a lot for certain zip codes in Detroit...

By me in St. Clair Shores, a normal sized lot [50 ft. wide] costs on average $29 per week for lawn service. I'm just wondering... since I don't know the specifics in the Indian Village zip code.

Wondering as you ask this question if you noticed that these houses in the thread have new 2 car garages?