Prompt: Career Opportunity 1: You are a real estate agent who often works with first-time home buyers. Design a questionnaire you could use to learn what features buyers are looking for in a home.
Name:
Number:
Number of people that will live in the house:
What are your reasons for buying a home of your own?
Do you have any pets?
How many square feet of living space are you interested in?
Number of bedrooms?
Number of bathrooms?
Yard size?
Garage size?
Amount of storage space?
What are you looking for in a kitchen?
A living room?
A laundry room?
Would you like to be close to schools?
Close to parks?
Close to public transportation?
Is there a specific feature that hasn’t been asked about?
What areas appeal to you and why?
Have you seen any homes that you like?
Prompt: Housing Costs: Consult the “homes for sale” ads in a location of your choice. Compare the prices of three homes in different regions of the area you are looking at. Where are the prices generally highest? Where are they lowest? What might account for these differences?
$179,900
3 Bedrooms
2 Bathrooms
1,765 sqft
.22acres
Bountiful, Utah
$229,984
Bedrooms 2
Bathrooms 2
1,440 spft
.33acres
Centerville, Utah
$325,000
Bedrooms 4
Bathrooms 3 1/2
3,126 sqft
.33acres
All of these housed are within 15 minutes of each other, but are very different prices. Part of the difference in price between the first and last house is the size. The Centerville house is much bigger, has more bedrooms/bathrooms, and the land is bigger. But when looking further you it is also obvious that the Centerville house has been updated more recently, especially in the kitchen and bathrooms.
When looking at the first two housed it may seem wrong that the smaller house is more expensive but the land is a lot bigger and it is also has been remodeled recently which could explain the price difference.
Prompt:: Comparing Housing Options: Make a display that compares the different housing options described in this chapter. Use photographs, drawings, and floor plans to show the exterior and interior of each option.
Condominium:
Attached Houses:
Factory Built Houses:
Mobile Homes:
Prompt: You are helping a husband look for themselves and their two children, and for the husbands parents. The parents are in their late sixties and still health and able to live independently. The couple and the parents want to live as near to each other as possible.
- Find floor plans for town homes, a duplex, and a single-famly home with an in-law suit – a separate living area typically used by older adults
- Evaluate the three floors plans in light of the family's current and future needs and wants.
- Choose the type of housing you wold be the best and design a family living room that the entire family could use.
Town Homes:
The family would have the town home with 3 bedrooms and the parents would have the one with only one room.
Both of the town houses have a big enough living to be all together.
Duplex:
House with attached suite:
This would be the option I would take. The down side of this option is that it is usually more expensive. The family has their side and everything the grandparents need they have but it is easy for them to come over and visit.
