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Originally Posted by whitev70r
^ what my biggest 'complaint' about him is this. Those people who review the product or gadgets actually open it and use it. People who review cars drive them as part of the review. This guy just sits at his computer and goes through real estate videos and critiques it. If a guy put up a series of car reviews based on manufacturer promotional videos, how much weight would you give it? Or, if someone gives one of those reviews on the latest iphone or Pixel without ever touching the phone and only by video of the product only? Everyone knows that when checking out a house, a walk through, taking the time to see it live makes a world of difference. You see the flow, the 'oh' moments, the feel .. more spacious/less spacious, etc. Pictures or videos of a place just doesn't do it justice.
Everyone knows that architects choose beauty over functionality and want to leave their stamp on a >$30M mansion. Of course it's going to be quirky in one way or another.
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This is fair; however, like peanutbutter points out, even if in real life the house doesn't actually suffer from that issue, the problems he points out are valid concerns that you should be aware of if you are designing or building a place, and I think that's more so what draws me to his videos. I dont particularly care how fucked a 120mil dollar house in LA is, although it is comical, but I care that I dont make some of those dumb simple mistakes when I work on my shitbox in vancouver.
I'm going to attach two particular videos that I think he showcases pretty well some major issues, and you dont need to visit the property to realize that he is correct:
The lot placement of this house specifically, and then the weird front entry vs garage issue.
This video showcases an issue he talks about often, which is when you make these "long" houses, you end up just walking from room to room to get through the house and it makes the livability really bad.