Meet the McMansion Man
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2013
- Hamptons 2013: Joe Farrell, the largest real estate developer in the Hamptons, is changing the look of the elite beach destination.
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I mean if I spend that much, I would hire an architect and interior designer.
And actually use good materials
Absolutely. But you wouldn’t be able to get that lot for that price for a well-built house.
@@jbun3146 " The cheap pay twice "
So he pretty much makes millions off of creating cheaply made and poorly designed homes in order to try and sell you the illusion of luxury living
Mapo Ly majority of all business been doing that for the longest...no company or person is perfect...corruption..
Chillaxin Fool good point
No he actually build luxurious homes for the rich in the richest areas the Hamptons
sounds like the same thing with anything else i mean designer clothes is all made in china too
I would say Apple is.
LOL . I want that crazy mc mansion hating chick who hates his mansions to find him.
I don't think she is crazy. I mean, they horrible. They should not exist.
Technically she won't have too much of a problem with most of these houses shown, typically the houses are built in the mcmansion style which is typically a clash of styles, but some of the designs were actually in the style you see typically in the Hamptons.
@@PeaceDreams0 agreed
Kate Wagner, and she ain't crazy, lol.
Why is she crazy? Hmm she comes across very intelligent.men love to call any girl with interesting style crazy.
Is it me, or do the houses look terrible for 4-8m? They look generic.
With the rate of inflation we're lucky a trashed up trailer with a broken toilet and no windows doesn't cost 4-8m, lol.
Yeah, that's how it is with McMansions.
I would imagine a large percentage of that price is the land they're on.
scoza yeah they don't look good at all for that price. Not only that but he probably made them look very alike for more profit because it's cheaper to make houses that are very similiar
scoza
Cookie cutter.
Somebody lock Kate Wagner and him together in an elevator
DING! DING! DING!
Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
I’m pretty sure there going to eat each other
I'd rather live in an original castle in Central Europe for literally a fraction of the price. If I wanted my house to look like a large barn, that is.
Castle are expensive
“They need us...”
To build crap.
If people didn't buy his stuff, he wouldn't be where he is in life. He found a formula that works for him.
It's the stupid customers that fall for these scams
@@florisr9 yes Americans. I rest my case. Lol
@@florisr9 What scam? He builds a product that people love and they buy it. Whats the issue? Stupid people dont live in 8 million dollar homes
@@italianguy4195 Americans? Why?
Not worth the money they all look the same
Why is houses looking the same bad?
They used to build rows of identical housing in a neighborhood.
It dropped the cost of housing considerably.
You could just fabricate the same wall 500 times instead of measuring and cutting then reading the blueprint. It took half the time to build and was just as good value for the consumer. But people's ego requires them to differentiate themselves from others even if it cost them thousands and thousands of dollars.
kkknotcool I think it's called creativity, which is better than an ugly neighborhood with a bunch eyesores.
Jared A. Sounds more like ego. Are designers creative enough to create millions of individual House in a short space of time?
Why does anyone need that much space? Are you living with 15 other people? 20? Just thinking about the heating bills is giving me anxiety
To house their ego !
Bruce Jeffries ahhh america “plays America national anthem”
Leah Tverly because he can?
Who said anything about "need", you filthy commie? What, do you wanna redistribute his wealth?
Love my big house!
"I'm not the shoemaker with the bad shoes"... Ummmmm he kinda is...
Jajaja totally!!
Just think how much energy (2 airconditioners, 2 furnaces, etc.) it takes to run these ego mansions. The true cost is not just money, but in coal extracted from West Virginia mountaintops.
gilliamjf there only McMansions so they can't be that bad
gilliamjf ...... & to be Honest; they look rather 'Tacky'
I have 3 air conditioners and 4 furnaces! And I wish my house was even bigger!!! Love it!
Just 2? Need 2 just for the pool house
You can easily get solar panels & geothermal energy for carbon neutral.
I designed my own house. That way it reflects ME completely, and is one of a kind.
This is what I plan to do also. Regardless of how wealthy I am, I prefer a reasonable sized, well-designed house that I can maintain alone, outside of special projects that lie outside my ability
Usually that means it wont sell in the future, not a problem if you never plan on moving though
@@trashyspeeds266 First of all.. I don't ever plan on moving, but If I were to sell, I don't know why it wouldn't sell. Literally every person who walks into my house gasps at how nice it is.
These aren't McMansions as I know them. They have coherent styles and shapes, balance, proportional scale, things line up, the roofline isn't a horrible mess. They don't use a random piles of siding types and materials. And they don't have those horrendous temple-scale doorways made of plastic foam. Developer built homes may share some aspects of McMansions - looking similar to each other, and in some cases being bigger than the average house, but sharing some similarities doesn't make two things the same.
Ben Hahaha... oh, wow! These are actually worse, these are fugly looking barns 👌🏻
Are you the architect of these monstrosities by any chance? Trying to defend your work? Eh? Eh?
Definitely not the worst I've seen when design principles are considered, but still not the level of concept and detail for what I'd be willing to spend 4 to 8 mil on. Good points though
You're right. As far as I can tell, those are dutch colonial houses. A style developed in New York and New Jersey
@@YangChuan2001 they’re Dutch colonial inspired, but pretty well into McMansion territory. Several simply look like three classic Dutch colonials pushed together.
Wow....500k for 2 weeks.....
rip off
Me living in an old Victorian mansion.
I wouldn't really call those McManions. They actually look pretty good
True, they're a lot better looking than the classic McMansion.
That literally the point...it looks good to people who don't know anything about architecture. That's how they sell cheap wood and foam homes for millions of dollars.
"it looks good to people who don't know anything about architecture." Kinda like rock music only sounds good to people who don't understand the composition of classical music, right? Kinda like balloon framing is only liked by people who don't understand the art of timber frame joinery, right? Stop being elitist. Architects forget their job is to satisfy the wants of non-architects.
These houses literally have the same design and it looks like multiple homes have been smashed together because the roof is not symmetrical. These houses make it no architectural sense and are very cheaply made.
@@starrg7478, they look like multiple homes smashed together? So do Victorian homes. The use the same design? So what? In many historic areas, the building authorities insist homes be of a consistent style, and that's a bad thing now? I could easily argue that all Adam style homes look the same.
Lol... ATM is a piece of furniture.
These are not really McMansions, look to the Washing Post's video on McMansions to see real examples of McMansions.
snooppey No, these are actually worse, they all look like fugly barns 👌🏻
The Exterior's are Ugly
It doesn't matter if they look the same, the majority of homes in the Hamptons are not seen from the street and/or have very tall hedges around the property.
I will never understand why you would pay so much money for a house that is essentially constructed with poor materials. They won‘t last longer than 30years... In Europe the houses are far more advanced and of better quality
They also cost 6 times as much, have no space, no A/C and look like garbage
It amazes me how excessive Americans live. I know this is just the middle-upper class shown in the video, but even households from lower working class backgrounds have houses larger than anywhere in the world it seems. I don't know it just always makes feel queasy knowing how materialistic it all is and how much energy goes into fuelling these huge houses/all the raw materials and possessions to fill the house.
YepItsThatGuy that's more than upper middle class rich. At least it is where I live. That's full on rich. And excessive. And it's not as much material as you might think. The houses are only built to absolute minimum code, meaning they are flimsy. The electric wiring, plumbing, furnace vents... All crap. I'd personally prefer a much smaller house, made well, with well thought out uses of space.
People who can afford those houses are probably in the top 1% of earners, and certainly in the top 5%. I know people here don't want to admit it, but his buildings are probably much more energy efficient than historic mansions.
Some one sounds jealous
it's called 'higher standard of living'
scrappy mom where I live these sized houses are suited for the upper middle class. Not the mansions with the theater and bowling alley. That is some high society stuff.
What a Grade A first world problem. They're building cookie-cutter mansions in the Hamptons, and it's bothering some millionaires. Meanwhile in Syria...
David Anthony Gutiérrez in mean while in Syria there thinking of ways to bomb our McMansions
Lucas Fernandez Rude
Comparing suburban architecture with a war. What a great comparison.
David Anthony Gutiérrez you can say "meanwhile in Syria..." to negate any problem. It's just an ugly house, no need to shove it in our faces how "easy" we have it. That's totally unrelated
It's not bothering millionaires- they love it. People like the man in this video make their money by building cheap, quick homes that look expensive and selling them to other millionaires, who then sell the house again to another millionaire, and so on...they use a home as an asset and not a home. Meanwhile all over the world people struggle to pay their rents and mortgages, and they expect an actually useful and cost effective home. McMansions prevent good quality useful homes from being built. Hope this cleared it up.
"Hey..I'm not the shoemaker with the bad shoes" **Win
The three to eight million dollar range
Ah yes, much more affordable.
You meet this boss after defeating all the other boomers
Sass M8 And Islam is a religion of peace 👌🏻
skate park? bowling? ATM? Is this from 90s? The guy lives in past.
Hey, if that the case, I wanna live in the past as well 😂
most of customers are 60+.
SOMEONE PUT KATE WAGNER AND THIS DUDE ON A DEBATE TABLE PLEASEEEE
I'm surprised they are using regular OSB and not Zip for the siding, especially given the price point.
These aren’t McMansions. McMansions are architectural nightmares, but this guy’s houses have actual class. I honestly couldn’t even distinguish that they were new houses because the “McMansions” looked like older houses
A real McMansion would stucco, stone, Greek columns, turrets, and cost just under a million. This is a high-price real estate developer who at least has some taste.
This is an update to the McMansion (2006-2012). Less crazy, bigger and still fake. This is still a poor woodboard construction with fake masonry glued on it. That's how he finished his houses that fast and makes good profit. It's a giant doghouse sold as a 1930s mansion
Those houses have class only if you believe a Barbie house is an architecture.
1890 barns from ocean to ocean.
Yes, they're a lot less ugly than the classic McMansion, but they still look ostentatious and cheaply made.
I agree they don't look as bad.. they are just bland
I absolutely LOVE The Sandcastle. I discovered it last year and I'm building a 3D model inspired by it in my time off. I would love for Joe to see it one day!
They hired a dull and uninspired architect. By the looks of these McMansions, they're all look pretty awful.
The thing he said about the tax base is actually interesting. I wonder if it has any merit.
In my years of living on Balboa Island, California, I've seen something very similar. One company, Vitarelli, builds almost all new the new construction on the island. Same cookie-cutter, "Cape Cod" style home, block after block, but this is Orange County, and most of these young, new money folks have no sense of style or refined taste in relation to the millions they're spending, so, they pay Vitarelli to create something like everybody else has.
If you want higher quality, I recommend a cement-home. Way better sound proofing and takes much less to cool & heat a home with cement walls. But guess people don't like high quality.
You're absolutely correct. If ever a powerful storm comes through, their homes will be decimated.
As a German I was always wondering how at US High schools you could do such great stuff as learning how to build a House. Then I learned that they just staple some pieces of timber 😂
@Natalia Doesn't have anything to do with lower intelligence but a different culture. Go cry into your pillow if you're offended.
his house is cool. the others, not so much
It's disgusting. These houses are an insult to architecture, and they insult the adults who they ensnare into buying them.
I like the design of the exterior but the way the McMansions are built though. Sheesh.
Taste: 0
Aesthetics: Sqrt -1
These aren't McMansions though. McMansions have cheap material, horrible architecture and look way out of place.
Is he driving a Volvo 240 in the beginning?
eyesore
Perfect comment.
If I ever buy one (yeah right) I want my whole family living with me. All of them
ive meet this guy b4
nice houses
"Mule in horse clothes", as the old saying goes.
Does anyone know anything about real estate who's commenting here? In neighborhoods, what keeps values of floats partly is the idea of a homogeneous neighborhood, houses that look relatively similar with no one breaking out of the mold. As far as price, an empty plot of land could easily command a million and a half, so building an actual home will immediately command at least a couple million. A custom home? 3 to 4 million.
These are mansions not McMansions , don’t lie to your selves. The Hamptons has become for the rich to build weekend and vacation homes
Thank you for pointing that out, McMansions are wanna be mansions.
When a custom house isn't. He has got the formula. Don't reinvent the wheel for every client. We gotcha Big Mak, The Cheese Royal, The Filet of Ish. If ya wanna add a side of dormers, it'll cost ya, be we gotcha covered. Build 4 kinds of house repeatedly, and you get to do it well and save on the construction process.
That’s the house from Billions
They look higher quality than typical McMansions. They’re actual plywood instead of OSB.
The pigs really care what we think of them , or should I say what they think they own.
Smart guy
These buyers are sitting ducks for the local tax collectors,as Mr Farrell said himself,the expense and pensions are increasing who pays but the tax payers,are none of these buyers at least a bit worried?Same in California,CALPERS in pain the obvious payers are the influx of wealthy money from across the USA and the world.
I wouldn't consider these McMansions
I would since they are made of crap materials with no regards for durability
This dude has had a few face lifts.
I don't think they look THAT bad. If there were only one of them you'd think it's a nice house. They only look bad because there are a bunch of them so they look more generic. I wouldn't even call them McMasions. They don't conform to the various stereotypes that McMansions are known for, like gaudy columns, mismatched roofs, and spirals.
631 baby
That house is not worth 43M, maybe 5M
If you know anything about home values in The Hamptons, 43M is what you should have been expecting to hear.
The house is 11.5 aches and has a baseball field and tennis court
what's so bad about these houses? paint is only a few tenths of a millimeter deep
In my opinion, the houses aren't that ugly and fairly nice. However, they cost wayyy too much and are basically cookie cutters.
is it just me or does that guy sound like ryan gosling
But I mean, they’re nicer homes than any of us have. So are we just being jealous?
Lol at all these people trying to cope...muh bad design..muh cheap construction...go out and build the house you want then. So many people have something to say about things that shouldn't even matter to them. And half of you are just mad this guy makes enough money to buy your family...good on him. I hope he makes more and build himself a new house twice the size. Ill be tending to and making my own money.
Sounds like Aaron Spelling’s house.
Scrap plywood sheds.
They look the same because of historical codes in the area requiring it. People really have no clue what they’re talking about, or the hoops you have to jump through to build a custom home In those kinds of neighborhoods. Having models already pre approved by the historical councils makes everyone’s lives easier and makes the project more cost effective.
McMansions are awesome. Stop hating because you can't afford them.
I'm wondering if this guy can actually afford to live in one as he has to rent out to Bey and Jay
Are you sure, they built with low quality materials and the value goes down as the years go by which is why they are called McMansions.
@@DAViDD767 That's why you use top rated builders who know what they're doing. Build quality is subjective considering every company has different building techniques and uses different materials. Structural integrity differs everywhere. This video targets them as a whole, which is only supplying false information.
Am I the only one who think McMansions look nice?
Dragonex not alone, I like the designs and I don’t even own one.
I think the houses look fantastic, modern and spacious
Nice Volvo 240
McMansion McMan
he's blaming pensions?!?! that's laughable.
is it though if u know how the economy works and u clearly don't but welfare and pensions and social security are huge expenses for the government i think they cost the national government around $800,000,000 a year people who build the tax base ( workers ) who have jobs who fund these programs
u235u235u235 Just check out Detroit, Chicago, CalPERS, and any other major city's pension liabilities. There is only one city in America that has 100 and above percent funding on its pensions, and that is Washington D.C. The belly of the beast, the heart of the monster.
The fact is that america has over 200 TRILLION DOLLARS in unfunded pension liabilities! Don't believe me? Do a quick google search.
you have a link for this 200 trillion figure?
If you Google search, it's literally the first result! I would understand if it was hard to find... but really!
Ruining neighborhoods one house at a time. Does he widen the roads for all the new cars?
Back in the 70s the Hampton still retain some of its old charm. No it’s a bunch of yuppies with cash. It’s over
The burdens of the super-rich, such woes and issues they have, I believe we should ease their Pain by giving them more money through tax breaks to help out these struggling people.
Before you say I'm some kind of leftist nut job, I make a very decent wage each year and I'm single so I live and do quite well on my own. When you have good health, family and friends, you're doing well imo.
Technically if you make more than 30 thousand a year, you are part of the 1 percent in the world. Congratulation, according to Bernie Sanders and what's her face you are a part of the problem. Lol
At least his houses have a style that I kinda like, the ones where I live are horrid.
Those houses don't really look like they are in the greatest shape, either they are very old or poorly built. Looks like they are about to collapse,...
So let’s talk about how far homes have come in the last 50 years. Lead paint, gone. Popcorn ceiling with asbestos, gone. Superior insulation in walls, attics and better quality windows make these larger home cheaper to heat and cool than older, smaller homes. They are much more energy efficient while also allowing more natural light in. Also, they do last if you take care of them. My 2003 home is a thousand times nicer than my 1960’s home was. It’s almost 20 years old and it’s just like the day I bought it. Most people simply don’t know how (or are too lazy) to maintain a home properly.
Minority opinion- I like them. McMansions are much, much uglier where I’m from.
So also the worst real estate developer in the area.
So we should give the rich more money cuz we need them? Makes since
Okay, but those are NOT what are generally considered "McMansions", which are way uglier. Do a bit more research next time, NYT -- maybe by visiting the suburbs of cities like Chicago and Dallas instead of the east coast.
thats crappy weak houses - one fire and its gone
Okay but some of the houses in different states don't look so bad. These aren't those homes, really nasty looking :p
I always have these fears of living in a big houses. 1 is what happens if there is someone else in the house and I do not know about it till its too late and 2 is what if I have an urgent call of nature and need to go to the toilet and its too far away.
Paying for something you dont use to impress people you dont care about. The american dream has hit dangerous levels. The mcmansion is this eras Victorian equivalent. An extravagant waste of resources
This guy is everything that's wrong with America.
gaudy
The problem ins't in him. He is just an agent of people's desires.
It's funny, the people in the comment section who are so narcissistic they seem oblivious to the fact that in a not too distant world called reality, there are in fact people with the money and inclination to buy these homes.
Most of these houses are set back from the road enough to where it doesn't really matter what they look like. The Hamptons are overrated and expensive anyways, so who is really being harmed here? Worried about the Hamptons losing character? There was hardly any character or originality to begin with. I'll choose Nantucket over the Hamptons any day of the week
500k for 2 months in that fugly thing? Hahahahah
So construction people get employed . The houses look good to me . They certainly are not an eyesore .Landscaping people get employed .Nice look to the area .So tell me again why there is a problem . Some people have a lot of money and they can afford it . The city gets more tax revenue as that new huge home gets taxes higher .So again is this a problem ? Some architects do not like the style ,well that's their opinion . In the Hamptons a lot of people rent out the homes when they are not there . So the market for rentals is the big house with a pool. Vacationers spend money on eating out and tourist attractions . So again the local economy benefits . Problem? The locals see their house values rise .Problem? Some people feel the big homes change the area . Well others might say the area needs revitalization as the older homes are looking shabby .
From what i gathered is they don't want the land developed. I can understand that.
I was in the Hamptons a couple of years ago .There are some areas that could use redevelopment.
It's true that modern architects have no taste but these houses are tacky. Some are alright, but others are uneven, and look like clumps of miss-matching features. Not to mention their size and cheap materials negatively impact the environment.
There is no problem. He's giving people what they want. The haters don't like what he's doing because he's rich and they're not, but they'll never admit it.
Some people don't want a bunch of rich people in their town because it can negatively impact their own life. For example, rich people have very different spending habits than working class people and they can and will attract companies that cater to them. Sometimes this makes living more expensive for everyone.
When rich people are moving in those areas this also creates a class division that hasn't been there before locally which most poor people wouldn't like, obviously.
And of course, many people will be jealous. Jealousy isn't good or nice but it is understandable that people who work to get by in a shabby one-story building get mad if suddenly a pretentious McMansion sits directly in front of them, including a bowling alley and snobby people.
But fact is, if more money is around the whole area becomes more expensive, and people who don't have a lot of money used to profit from living in rural areas where they might need less money to live. They lose this advantage and might need to move if they can't afford living there anymore.
I don't want to blame the guy personally, he does his job and makes money, but his actions may have negative consequences for the people living there, and he doesn't care.
I personally love this type of houses, to me they look beautiful. Also I love neighbourhoods where all the houses look the same, because they look so good and clean and organized, i agree they dont have as much personality and charachter but i dont really care about those, all i care about is how it looks.
It's also not a McMansion in this video. Most houses in the videos are actually dutch colonial, which is a defined architectual style and not a McMansion
Guys like him have ruined it out east.
Honestly, they look ten times better then the mansions built near me. Everyone here is obsessed with rock and stucco.
Gluttony.