McMansions are a poor investment

[dem in texas]

18. They are ruining the old neighborhoods in Dallas

Dallas has many beautiful old neighborhoods with 1930 brick homes, 1950's brick ranch style homes with big yards and 1930 frame cottages and lots of tall trees. People buy the home, tear it down and build a huge stucco McMansion that takes up the whole property so there is no yard and the oversized house goes to the edge of the property line.

Dallas has tried to pass some building regulations to stop it, but from what I see it is still going on. We go estate sales all over Dallas and it is depressing to how these big homes can destroy the character of a charming, picturesque neighborhood.

My daughter used to own a little 2 bedroom frame home on Red Bird Lane in Grapevine. This little road runs up along the lake. It was cute road, a hidden treasure and mostly had will frame houses and week-end cottages. Then people discovered the area and started buying up the homes and tearing them down to build monster houses. A few doors down from my daughter, someone built a 3 story Macmansion. A macmansion was built behind my daughter and the owners continually complained about the trees on my daughter's property. Nothing was wrong with the trees, they just did not match the landscape as far as these people wanted. Finally, my daughter got a offer that she couldn't refuse and sold her home and it was torn down to build a MacMansion. She now lives in Arlington, another cute older neighborhood, will probably be tearing down homes there soon.