Those of you interested in such things would do well to head over to Leica Rumors, where the housing's specs are available for view.
Melida and the girls — Kathryn, twelve, and Jennifer, seventeen — waited in the client's living room, snacking on cookies and checking Instagram, while Alfredo walked through the house, taking specs: how much Sheetrock he'd need, how much spackle, how many two-by-fours.
I have to say, though, as nice as it would be to have a little XP touchscreen around the house, the specs are a little lacking: 1GB of RAM, a 1.6GHz Atom processor, 160GB HDD, and 128 GBMB (heh) of shared graphics.
The invasion has driven up construction costs, and seduced builders, architects and even carpenters to build houses on "spec".
The invasion has driven construction costs to record levels, seduced builders, architects and even carpenters to build houses on "spec," choked roads with commuting workers and encouraged subcontractors to insist on bonuses merely for showing up on time.
And you — if you have developed a house on spec, and it's sitting there calmly ignorant of the real estate crash while you panic about your mounting bills — will pay that fee.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz./WILLISTON, N.D., March 8 (Reuters) - C harles Cork is gearing up to do something he hasn't done in four years: Build a $1 million house "on spec".
'Full House' creator sells spec house above Sunset Strip for $20.2 million.
"At Farm Hill Estates in Ivoryton, 22 one-acre home sites are available and one spec house has been built for $459,500," said Cathy Schellan of Prudential Connecticut Dunham Realtors, which is handling the sales.
The first property is a four-bedroom, 4,500-square-foot log home on Little Sebago Lake that was built as a spec house and was nearly complete when the developers bought it.
