Re: Involuntary Simplicity (was: Re: Resident Participation in
From: Kay Argyle (argylemines.utah.edu)
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:01:50 -0600 (MDT)
> To already built communities... How large is your community?
> How many 4-bedrooms or larger?
> Have you had problems selling them?

Wasatch Commons has about six or seven four-bedroom units out of 26 units
total.  I don't think they went any more slowly or
quickly than any other size. Two 4-BRs went back for sale again
soon after move-in (almost a year ago) and are currently rental units.

None of the 4-BRs have more than three household members, and one
has only one occupant.  A couple of larger households in smaller units
cannot afford to trade up.  

The 3-BRs can be converted to 4-BR by adding the fourth
bedroom above the third bedroom.  2-BRs would convert less
satisfactorily, because they are narrower and the third/fourth bedrooms
would end up being only eight feet wide.

We have eight single-member households, but only two 1-BR units. 

In a couple of cases I think the person/household may have bought a bigger
unit than they wanted for lack of the right size -- but in a couple of
cases I'm sure they wanted the extra room.

Kay Argyle
Salt Lake

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