The other day I came across a Google street view map of an up-scale town somewhere in California. And I thought let me take a walk around and check it out.
I passed a few nice homes, turned a corner and passed a few more nice homes and then there was a drive-way with three car garage. I turned and zoomed in, two garages were filled with stacked wood and the guy was in the third bent down working a chainsaw. I thought he was building a boat.
Then I turned and saw a port-a-potty right there next to the street and thought “ick who would want to live in a nice street like this and look at that all day.”
Then I turned again and saw a sign “Luxury Basements”.
So this guy with the three car garage is actually making a business of turning his neighbors cellars into “Luxury Basements” for their children (who have no hope of ever leaving) to live in.
What is “Luxury” about that?
I guess if you make a business out of it you need to sugarcoat the reality.
“So this guy with the three car garage is actually making a business of turning his neighbors cellars into “Luxury Basements” for their children (who have no hope of ever leaving) to live in.”
In California houses aren’t built with basements. This is the land of the concrete slab foundation. Simply having a basement is a novelty. I do know someone who added a ‘basement’, in reality a large temperature controlled wine cellar.