One thing I couldn't get over in this movie was that the house was a friggin' mansion. Since the PA movies always feature middle-class families, I was wondering if American middle class families do tend to live in these ENORMOUS houses. It had a bloody walk in pantry for gods sake!
I know I'm probably wrong, but it would be great to get confirmation :)
Most movies and TV shows grossly exaggerate the homes of "ordinary" Americans. People working regular jobs have homes that would usually cost several times beyond want any bank would lend -- even in 2007. This house in particular, in Santa Rosa, would cost $1.5-2M in my estimation. We don't know how wealthy the family is, but I can assure you 99% of Americans do not have homes that grand.
Later in the movie, the husband-father tells the wife that the broker wasn't real and the "too good to be true" price for the house was probably a set-up to get them in. So I guess they explain it that way.
Less than a million in Santa Rosa. May be a rental.
shareYou people are nuts. Santa Rosa isn't San Francisco or Los Angeles. Homes of this size generally average out around $500K at the high end, and $350K at the low end. The type of house showcased is of the tract home variety that are ubiquitous throughout California, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico.
Tract homes in Santa Rosa, Fresno, Folsom, San Luis Obispo, Mission Viejo, Lake Forest, and other so-called "bedroom communities" have never and will never get anywhere near $1 million. That's just stupid and idiotic. Tract homes have never appreciated greatly in value because they're all cookie cutter designs and the land value itself are not usually high since these tend to be very large and still plenty of room to construct more gated and planned residential communities. We're not talking Beverly Hills or Palm Beach here.
And for those morons who think that the average middle class family could never afford a home that costs upwards of $300K, I guess you've never heard of the absurdly low interest rates during the housing bubble not so long ago, when it was possible to get practically almost any home under $800K for 5% down and even as low as 2%.
People tend to forget that this was why the bubble inevitably burst and foreclosures became the norm. In another ten years, there'll be a new housing bubble and you'll find people who make less than $100K a year getting approved for mortgages for homes in the million dollar range.
Get a clue.
Yes it was explained that the house was offered to them cheaply by someone who didnt actually work for the real estate company (I'm taking it was one of the witches from the coven)
But if the company had no record of her, how could they actually buy the house at that price? Was the paperwork also faked? So they didn't actually own it at all? Surely they had to go over the contract with the relevant parties involved. Who did they buy the house off? Who built it over Micah and Katies old house?
Where I come from you couldn't build a fence workout the authorities knowing! It made no sense at all. That was a major hole in the plot for me.
Coven legally built the house, fake real estate agent offered it to the new owners and did the paperwork, everything legally. The company never even offered the house, it was directly offered by the fake agent. Thats how I understand it, no plot hole there.
shareThis is the Grandmother's house, right? This is where the girls stayed after Mom and Dad were killed. I do not recall it being so huge in the first movie featuring it but I do recall at the beginning of this one how he said they got it really cheaply -- and I thought they were renting? Or was that what his brother thought?
Anyway, it is a beautiful house!
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Haha. It's no set. All of these films are filmed in real houses
shareUpper middle-class perhaps, but certainly not most middle-class Americans. I have a 3 bedroom 1700 square foot, single story house. Which is in my experience about the average house for middle class Americans, at least the ones I know. :D
shareI know! Geez, that house was big as a mansion... I cant imagine a normal family having/affording such a large house (well, maybe in the Midwest area, big houses I cheap I guess)... but still....
shareCertainly not in the Bay Area. What do these two do for a living anyway?
shareYes. all middle class white people live in huge mansions that they didn't even work for. These houses are just given to them when they turn 18. Its called white privilege and its very real. Very, very real.
shareI think the large homes used in these movies is because it makes the movie more interesting. I live in a small bungalow home and I don't think the movie would be as good if it were filmed in my house...plus we need more rooms for the placed camera scenes when they set up cams all over the house.
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