Good news, everyone. They've "unlocked" a new kind of housing. No, they won't be charging any less for the new kind of housing. No, it won't really alleviate the market pressure on the old kind of housing. But it's a really exciting opportunity for developers to arrange some plywood and PVC piping on some boomer's yard and ask for half a million dollars. Isn't that fun?>San Jose just became the first city in California to unlock a new kind of housing.>Under a new law, the South Bay city saw its first accessory dwelling unit, colloquially called an ADU, sold as a condo unit on an existing property this month. The unique transaction is the first time an ADU has been sold without an accompanying home in the state. This type of sale was previously illegal until Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law in 2023 enabling standalone ADU purchases.>The two-bedroom, standalone home near downtown sold for $530,000. It has no homeowners association dues or shared utilities, and it has a separate entrance and private parking. >“It will be helping people who, they want to own a place more affordable and more easy to get a home,” Daniel Aflakian, the buyer of the 749-square-foot house, told KGO-TV.>The property was first listed for $598,000 in February of this year and underwent a price cut to $549,000 a month later.>Bay Area real estate developer AlphaX RE Capital completed the ADU and hopes to put two more of these types of homes on the market in the fall. The company has plans to build hundreds more in the future, appealing to Bay Area homeowners who want to convert a portion of their land, as well as build the homes on land they already own. Their ultimate goal is to make this new property type “a more normal part of the housing ecosystem,” said Jia Li, the company’s chief asset management officer.
one of my customers added an ADU a few years ago but i think he mostly just uses it as a mancave/gym/goon lair because its just him and his wife and you can see all of his boomer sports shit inside there. anyway OP why do you care about a full-sized house youre probably going to die alone anyway
>>539818441...why does this feel like the place where 'the help' stays, like you are a boomer who needs constant medical assistance so you have your caretaker live in a tiny house in the backyard?
>>539818441>$530,000For a shed?
>>539818441I don't want to live in someone's backyard. Yes, I know on paper I own that sliver of land, but imagine how fucking weird it would be coming and going and you're in some asshole's backyard.
>>539818441And the HOA dues go straight into the Boomer's Corvette fund! Congratulations owner, you now have the responsibility of maintaining all interior spaces and appliances. When the roof leaks, a special assessment will raise your HOA dues only - and you get to pay perpetual HOA rent to the boomer in the big house. But you own that garden shed now (excluding the property beneath it).
>>539819597My shed is bigger
>>539819319I would be willing to do that
>>539819729He owns the shed. The land belongs to the boomer and he pays monthly HOA dues to the boomer (allegedly the boomer is also a member of the HOA, but it's split on square footage, so he controls it). So basically the boomer sold the rights to share his property tax and employ his 35 year old NEET son to do the landscaping.
>>539819729If its a close friend or relative and if you're not completely antisocial, it can be a good idea if they find they are not using all their land.
>>539819737Americans really do fucking anything to avoid building multi-family housing and insist that literally everyone have a tiny castle that they can pretend exists in a pocket dimension separated from the rest of the world.
>>539819319It's the bull's pied-à-terre. There's a melanin detector at the front door which won't open for anyone but the blackest
>>539818441We're returning to actual serfdom, except instead of some cool medieval serfdom where you might get conscripted for the holy roman crusade, or die of the plague, drinking beer and wine every day, you get to wipe old dudes asses and get lectured on your white privilege by gross little racial mutts.
>>539818441The tablets are triggering my autism.
>the bay area Boomers found a way to charge over 1/2 a Million dollars for renting out a fucking garden shed?Day of the pillow when?
You could always just get a fucking job, save your money and buy the house you want like people have done for 200 years.
>>539818441>"it will help people who want more affordable housing">costs half a milliondoubt
>>539820113I live in Los Angeles and earn $400K a year. You can't buy a 2-bed condo on the west side with in-unit laundry for less than $1.2M.That's $11K a month with $240K down. You can't work your way into the ponzi scheme. You can either buy in a sweltering Mexican neighborhood and keep your valuables in a bank safe deposit box or rent in an area where you won't be victimized and your kids won't be murdered at school - even at my income level.
>>539818441>for just over half a million you can live in beautiful: cuckshed
>>539819882>if you're not completely antisocialAnon, I...
>>539820342Not my problem.
>>539818441Are the frames made from gold and tungsten? I built mine for u Der 15k and it was livable.
>>539820113>>539820495peak boomer retardation.
>>539820488:^(
>>539820113WTF houses were invented in 1826????
>>539820495It'll be your problem when the mobs decide to affix your head to a stake
>>539818441Decent for an elderly relative i suppose and probanly less expensive then the care home bills for them to be fed pet food and rag dolled by a somalian.
>>539818441Looks like a typical American house
>>539819737>And the HOA dues go straight into the Boomer's Corvette fund!"It has no homeowners association dues or shared utilities"I am jealous that anon will get to kill you when things go
>>539820342You voted for this.
>>539818441Top signal.
>>539818441>>539818909>>539820048How much would building a 400sq. Ft. one of these with no plumbing work (already got that covered) cost? >>539820342>earn $400K a year.FUCKING HOW
>>539823824PhD expert in a technology at a defense prime in California. I'd take a 50% pay cut to live in Ohio
>>539818441Kill boomeRs. Kill kikes
>>539820113Kill yourself kike boomer
It's literally optional to buy this btw
>>539819597don't worry you can sign 50 year mortgages for it
>>539823824>No plumbingWith plumbing they're 100-200k. I've seen in ideal conditions them merely costing 60-80k but that's fairly uncommon.OP saying they're 1/2 a million is retarded because that's already an inflated market, and there are tons of places that have ADU's elsewhere.
>home depot shed>$600kALL developers need to be brutally tortured, then killed
I live in one when I was in college. House had 3 of them in the backyard. It was just one room with a stove, fridge, and a wet bathroom
>>539818441umm dezoning sissies??? i thought lax zoning was supposed to make housing my UH-FFORDABLE?
>>539826445The one in OP is being sold at a huge profit i believe, definitely didn't cost anywhere near that. You think it could get 300sq ft built for 70k in MA? Literally need just a room as an attachment.
>>539827181IDK anon, not really the place to ask for specific market stuff. If it's an attached room maybe, much cheaper than standalone. I only know the general costs for this stuff.But 70k is doable especially if you do a lot of the work yourself and it's not standalone, generally speaking.
