What is the (TRUE) size of this house..???
This is a great and sort of a complicated question... It goes like this...
The LA County website says that the house is 870sq ft.. I have NO clue WHY it actually says that size (870sq ft) and no one I have talked to can say WHERE they came up with that number - it makes no sense...
Preparing to sell this house, the photographer who took the website pictures, measured each room and created the floorplan that is on all the websites there are two PROBLEMS:
1. The floorplan has sizes for each room;
a. The sizes are close but not accurate;
b. The closets in the bedroom were NOT included in the floorplan or the sizes.
2. The photographer did NOT do 'the math' to calculate the SIZE of the house.
When I noticed this, I did the math and it came out significantly HIGHER than the LA County website - which I reported to my real estate agent. The question then came to my mind, were the closets INCLUDED or not on that sizing floorplan - the answer was NO.
At this point, I purchased a laser measureing tape - and I measured EVERYTHING in the floorplan and MOST of the rest of the house - just to have a more clear picture of what was going on....
Below, are the ACTUAL measurements, that I personally took by my own hand. I believe that these measurements are the most accurate measurements that have ever been done on this property....
The LOT/PARCEL size is:
* According to the LA County Website - Parcel Map (# 88 below), the lot size is 6,115 sq ft...
* According to trapazoid calculations (same map) - the size (60.3 x 104.93 x 60 x 98.9) is 6,130.2 sq ft...
* According to Satellite mapping - the size is about 6,450 sq ft...
* I have not measured the lot size myself, it is impossible to measure because there are NO survey markers in the back where the fences meet. There ARE, pin markers embedded IN the curb by the street, to indicate property lines (both North & South), but nothing in the back to know those points or where they converge with other properties. The NORTH marker on the curb, does indicate that the ACTUAL fence along the NORTH side of my property, belongs to the neighbor to the North, which is what the construction crew for the driveway used to pour the concrete. The SOUTH marker in the curb - no one knows, the neighbor to the south and I just agreed (verbally) that the actual concrete fence (between our back yards) was split in a 50/50 way; which was the basis for them replacing the old wooden fence (between our houses & that my father and I put in back in the 1970's) and replacing it with that white vinyl fence. We SPLIT the cost of the vinyl fence, from the concrete fence to the gate(s). I paid full price for the locking gate on my side. They paid the full price for the TOPPING of the concrete fence with that 24" vinyl extension on top of the concretefence - they chose that for their own privacy...
The only EXACT measurement possibility - is to pay for a straight up survey, which I have no intention of doing. The existing fences and lot lines have been stable since before we moved there in 1968 and no one has ever questioned it -- ever; I have no intention of questioning it now, just to gain or lose a few square feet...
