{"id":879,"date":"2007-09-17T02:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/17\/mcmansions-turned-into-grow-houses-by-real-estate-collapse\/"},"modified":"2007-09-17T02:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-17T10:25:00","slug":"mcmansions-turned-into-grow-houses-by-real-estate-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/mcmansions-turned-into-grow-houses-by-real-estate-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"McMansions Turned into Grow Houses by Real-estate Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcnews.go.com\/TheLaw\/WNT\/story?id=3242760\">The grass is, apparently, greener in American&#8217;s sprawling and overvalued exurbs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, that explains the formerly inexplicable sky-high prices of<br \/>\nMcMansions in the drab, endless suburbs surrounding major cities.&nbsp; I<br \/>\nalways wondered what you had to be on to buy a characterless 2,500 sq.<br \/>\nft. tract house for $750,000 that was set 50 miles (and a three-hour<br \/>\ncommute down clogged freeways) from any employer. <\/p>\n<p>It turns out that you had to be on your own product. I guess now that<br \/>\nthe ARMs are re-setting, even the grow houses are going under. This may<br \/>\nbe the thing that leads to legalization &#8211; the banks need the grow<br \/>\nhouses to keep producing &amp; selling product to pay off the insane<br \/>\nloans that were written for overvalued houses &#8230; so they quietly push<br \/>\nthru legalization &#8230; ? <\/p>\n<p>That would be irony, indeed.&nbsp; Kind of like how Prohibition was ended<br \/>\nbecause the gov&#8217;t needed the tax revenue during the Depression.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/business\/industry_sectors\/banking_and_finance\/article2461206.ece\"><br \/>Meanwhile, we are starting to see the first runs on banks.<\/a> This is starting to get a little unsettling.&nbsp; My grandfather had a very bad history with banks &#8211; twice, they folded and took the farm. If this starts happening in the U.S., that will really mark the point at which the economy goes into full-blown meltdown. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/hardnewsinc.blogs.com\/my_weblog\/London%20bank%20line.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"poweredbyperformancing\">Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/scribefire.com\/\">ScribeFire<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grass is, apparently, greener in American&#8217;s sprawling and overvalued exurbs Well, that explains the formerly inexplicable sky-high prices of McMansions in the drab, endless suburbs surrounding major cities.&nbsp; I always wondered what you had to be on to buy a characterless 2,500 sq. ft. tract house for $750,000 that was set 50 miles (and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}