"Kai M. Radicke" wrote:
>
> Well you missed quite a bit then :P There are TONS of twenty to fifty year
> old developments produced by Levitt and other mass builders of the
> 50s/60s/70s. Same deal on some of the older developments in Long Island
> (including ones by William Levitt again). If you want me to be more
> specific, I live in Bucks County and 80% of the developments that are the
> same age as mine do not have basements. If you cross the Delaware over into
> Burlington NJ and Willingboro NJ, you'll find the same deal, lots of
> copy-cat developments with no basements.
I consider the Levitts and their ilk to be manufactured housing.
> I don't like Levitt homes, the man was a greedy capitalist who didn't care
> about the quality of his product. Levitt is known for creating low cost
> homes that each went up in less than a day, especially to house the masses
> of returning soldiers with growing families from WWII. The (lack of)
> quality shows 50 years later... one of the reasons it costs so much to bring
> them up to modern standards. A non-updated basic house two doors down sold
> for $175k last summer... go figure.
Collector's item :>)
>
> Kai
>
> > Kai Man,
> >
> > I don't know where in SE PA you live, but I can't remeber ever
> > beeing in a house in this area that _didn't_ have a basement
> > unless it was a manufactured house. I've lived all over the PA
> > turnpike NE extension - Rt. 309 corridor from Philly to
> > Allentown.
> >
> > Jon
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