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re: Typical Baton Rouge development. Noticed new land for sale signs in Rouzan
Posted on 4/19/21 at 9:29 am to Popths
Posted on 4/19/21 at 9:29 am to Popths
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Established people who don’t want to be a slave to their yards buy these homes.
That's a crap excuse.
Anyone spending $700k for that is either being a slave to their flowerbeds or paying someone to do it. That same time/effort and/or money could go just as well to a full yard which would add far more privacy.
What they are buying for that $700k isn't "not being a slave to their yard" is an attempt at status symbol.
I have a home on a diamond-shaped .5 acre lot (giving me a decent front yard and a large back yard), I didn't pay even close to $700k for it and I can afford to have someone mow and weed-eat it every week.
This post was edited on 4/19/21 at 9:32 am
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Posted on 4/19/21 at 9:42 am to RealityTiger
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Location to what though? The ghetto in Baton Rouge?
Rouzan is built in a area that has probably the highest price per sqft for residential real estate in Baton Rouge. In the surrounding area 1200sqft 2br 1 ba homes built in the 1930s sell for over $200 sqft with many being bought as tear downs for the 75’x150’ lots.
Posted on 4/19/21 at 9:43 am to Tshiz
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Oh, which of course we need another that attracts the highest quality folks ....
Don't diss the public library. Didn't you learn anything from School House Rock?
Posted on 4/19/21 at 9:47 am to EA6B
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Rouzan is built in a area that has probably the highest price per sqft for residential real estate in Baton Rouge. In the surrounding area 1200sqft 2br 1 ba homes built in the 1930s sell for over $200 sqft with many being bought as tear downs for the 75’x150’ lots.
Really helping my updated Pollard house. Pollard/woodchase have shot up even more. I know of a few homes that have sold for 195 a foot recently
Posted on 4/19/21 at 9:47 am to ColdDuck
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Most of you guys are talking out of your arse. None of the houses are sitting in Rouzan. As soon as they are built they are sold
While I agree that some people are being a little dramatic, there is one for sale right now that's been on the market for 219 days
Posted on 4/19/21 at 9:51 am to AtlantaLSUfan
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Don’t knock the Baton Rouge market just because Rouzan is trying to stick McMansions 10ft from each other.
Yeah. The housing market is on fire right now. Rouzon has a lot of well finished, well built homes. But they are too close together for my taste.
The commercial and retail aspects of it probably are going to have to be scaled back after the Pandemic. But that’s a nationwide trend. My kids will refer to the few remaining shopping malls and “lifestyle centers” as a vestige of the past like my generation does with drive in movies.
This post was edited on 4/19/21 at 9:56 am
Posted on 4/19/21 at 9:53 am to Bard
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Anyone spending $700k for that is either being a slave to their flowerbeds or paying someone to do it. That same time/effort and/or money could go just as well to a full yard which would add far more privacy.
$700k is putting you in that location, a 75’x150’ lot in the same area will sell for over $200K, $350K houses have been torn down just to get a .25 acre lot.
Posted on 4/19/21 at 9:55 am to man in the stadium
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wouldn’t trust Charles Landry as a developer.
This! But don't worry, if he has any problem with you whatsoever, he'll take your arse to court
Posted on 4/19/21 at 9:57 am to EA6B
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Rouzan is built in a area that has probably the highest price per sqft for residential real estate in Baton Rouge.
Yeah there is demand for those types of homes. I have no idea how there are so many people willing to spend that much in Baton Rouge, but there seems to be an endless apptitite for them judging how many homes are sold in Rouzon, Willow Grove, etc.
Posted on 4/19/21 at 9:57 am to EA6B
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people like myself that want a nice large custom home, have zero use for a yard
I think it's weird as s***, but apparently you're right. If you can afford that kind of house, however, why wouldn't you just hire a landscaping crew?
Posted on 4/19/21 at 9:58 am to Ed Osteen
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The amount of people in Baton Rouge that want to pay 700k for a house with no yard and sandwiched between the traffic hell that is Lee and Perkins is very small
you do know the boomers and some millennials nowadays want no yard right? Look at all the whos who neighborhoods in the south LA. all are communities like this. Posted on 4/19/21 at 10:06 am to jrobic4
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I think it's weird as s***, but apparently you're right. If you can afford that kind of house, however, why wouldn't you just hire a landscaping crew?
In that area the same house on a .25 acre lot is going to be a lot more money.
Posted on 4/19/21 at 10:08 am to CarRamrod
yeah which I can understand why some people want that, I was getting at that specific location for those prices
This post was edited on 4/19/21 at 10:10 am
Posted on 4/19/21 at 10:22 am to financetiger
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Exactly. Several years ago a local builder took a couple who he was building for and showed them the poor quality being used in Rouzan. He pointed things out and said that in 15 years these houses would be falling apart. He was showing the couple the difference between cheap vs quality products. Most of Rouzan is built with "cheap" quality producgts. Time will tell....
I've heard the same thing from different people - both realtors and construction professionals. And those are all half-million plus houses. I don't know that Spinosa is the root of the problem, but you don't see that level of crap construction in other developers' projects.
Posted on 4/19/21 at 10:25 am to Bard
i can see why the typical soccer mom would love those houses
Posted on 4/19/21 at 10:25 am to goofball
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The commercial and retail aspects of it probably are going to have to be scaled back after the Pandemic. But that’s a nationwide trend. My kids will refer to the few remaining shopping malls and “lifestyle centers” as a vestige of the past like my generation does with drive in movies.
I agree with your larger comment, but the retail and commercial portion here is almost exactly what the future of non-online retail will be. Nice grocery store anchor, with more up-scale restaurants and boutique shops, connected to a walkable community of potential costumers with disposable income.
Posted on 4/19/21 at 10:27 am to man in the stadium
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Riverbend will be the next Shenandoah, surrounded by miles of shitty track section 8 homes and apartments.
Riverbend has always been surrounded by townhomes & apartments. Some rundown, some nice. It has never affected that neighborhood. Building some cookie cutter neighborhoods on Burbank or River Rd. is not going to do anything to Riverbend.
Posted on 4/19/21 at 10:29 am to Ed Osteen
Is it new or existing (resale)? Most new homes there are listed before the slab is even poured. 219 days on the market may barely be complete.
Posted on 4/19/21 at 11:27 am to LSUbasketballfan
quote:Yea that dude doesnt know what the hell he is talking about. Shenandoah isnt next to LSU. Riverbend will never be like Shenandoah.
Riverbend has always been surrounded by townhomes & apartments. Some rundown, some nice. It has never affected that neighborhood. Building some cookie cutter neighborhoods on Burbank or River Rd. is not going to do anything to Riverbend.
Posted on 4/19/21 at 11:52 am to Tshiz
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Oh, which of course we need another that attracts the highest quality folks ....
Have you ever been to the public library in Baton Rouge? The libraries cater to those in their neighborhoods - what else do you expect?
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