Sit Right There, I'll Tell You How I Became the Prince of a Town Called Bel Air

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The Bel Air, at 4801 South Congress, has made several more units available for sale. The units generally consist of a garage on the bottom, with an open living room/kitchen ("loft space") above it, with a bedroom or two above that, and a roof deck above that. This seems like a generally pleasant design, and walking up and down the stairs helps with the beer gut. The finishs are nice, in a DWR sort of way, and the materials - mainly recycled steel, flyash CMU and glass, are definitely greener than your average spec house. The development itself is a little too uber-industrial - some trees would go a long way to making the space between the units a little more inhabitable, but generally, the Bel-Air does more right than it does wrong.

The units are priced from $200k to $350k, which gets you about 1000 to 1500 square feet (not sure if that counts the garage and the roof deck). This isn't a steal by any standard - most homes in the area cost about the same or less by the foot- but it is a viable option.

The developer, Interurban Development LLC, is also doing the Skyline Lofts on East Ninth.

* Image from Interurban Development LLC.

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350K for a 2br "loft" SOUTH of Ben White? Smoke Weed Every Day!

Yeah.... No.

That's far too much to pay for apartment livin', even if they do offer the best of low-end metalic-ish appliances and most urbansexual Home Depot lighting fixtures.

did you just coin "Ubransexual" tc?
that's hot

Nah, no coining. The combo-phrase has apparently been around for a bit. I must have heard it from somewhere. Probably my parole officer.

Kidding.

My parole officer's a mute.

Okay then. Not cool in the least.

They've also got rooftop decks with hot tub hookups. Don't ask me how I know this.

Around the same price as other houses in the neighborhood? Not even close. That neighborhood is still one of the only ones in town where you can pick up a house for 90k. I would be shocked if you could find another home in that neighborhood even approaching 200k.

Tim, dude. No way. We looked for a house in that neighborhood. At least 120k. You could easily spend 200k for one of the nicer homes.

My friend lives in these lofts and they look nice on the outside but have a lot of problems inside. First, my friend waited for over a year for his loft to be ready. After he moved in, he found multiple problems that took months to fix. They say they are green builders, but his electricity bills are extremely high! There is construction going on all the time and their lofts are really overpriced for the neighborhood.

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