Comments on: Avimor Sales May Total 6 Units

By: Blazing Saddle

Blazing Saddle — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:05:34 +0000

Now, see here Guardian. Cypherin is not easy for a hand like me, even if you keep it down in the singe digit range.

Up above I penciled that, once you sifted the wheat out from the chaff, that Avimor had only sold 3 houses. Now that feller Antiphobe claims, “both of the inital resident occupied homes in Avimor were a result of the “you buy ours, we’ll buy yours” program.”

Now, those two houses ain’t a sales, exactly. They’re just trading some inventory on their lot for some inventory somewhere else in the valley. They may have even lost money on the deal.

So, if I subtract those two, from the grand total of three, it seems that Avimor has sold one whole house!

HooooEeeee. Cash the check fast boys! That’s some kind of sales rush.

By: Serendipity

Serendipity — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:20:08 +0000

Thanks to all for a guffaw-filled fun time reading all your witty comments!! 🙂

By: Gordon

Gordon — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:14:32 +0000

Tom Anderson has a great idea.
Look how well it has worked for The Hole. Every so often someone pretends to have money, and the powerless-that-be approve another pie-in-the sky project. Then, when nothing gets built, they can stall around, extending, ignoring and otherwise invalidating deadlines until they have to admit that plan flopped. Then all they have to do is sit back and wait a few weeks or months until someone else comes along and pretends to have money.
Granted, The Hole ain’t exactly pretty (though not as ugly as the planned “Tower”), but at least it keeps the pretend builders busy playing silly games in one spot, instead of tearing down perfectly good buildings to pretend to build something better, as they did in the bad old days of the B.R.A.

Let’s, see; Tamarack only went through two names (if I remember correctly) and construction of a lot of not-paid-for buildings before the current ski resort builder went downhill and wiped out. So maybe Nevermor could go play up there for a while, with its pretend money. Give them something to do.

By: Antiphobe

Antiphobe — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:45:28 +0000

P.S. to Clipptyclop…..both of the inital resident occupied homes in Avimor were a result of the “you buy ours, we’ll buy yours” program. Despite attempting this program knowing it would be a financial loser, the ploy apparently failed to get any sales momentum going.
Major discounts on spec homes are the only thing that managed to salvage a couple other sales late in 2008. This development is absolutely dead in the water. Staff has been skinnied down in half over the past year and is running at bare bones. The backing of SunCor’s parent company Pinnacle West Capital Corporation is the only thing that is keeping it afloat…and one would think that at some point they (the mother ship) would grow weary of trying to keep this failed project afloat.

By: Antiphobe

Antiphobe — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:21:24 +0000

Diva….you may have been under that IMPRESSION because the Project General Manager for Avimor Dan Richter was interviewed back in the summer of 2008 and claimed that Avimor was selling “about a house a week”. Guess it was a nice little 6 week run they had.

By: boise diva

boise diva — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:15:30 +0000

Thanks for the update on Avimor. I wondered where all the houses were when I was up near Pearl for a birding event last fall. I’m glad they weren’t there, but I had been under the IMPRESSION that building was going on like crazy since it had been approved.

By: Rod in SE Boise

Rod in SE Boise — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:27:57 +0000

Hundreds of years to build out? Well, yes, if the recession goes on and on and on. Just wait until Micron stock hits $4.50 again. Then it’ll be boomtown again, and the streets will be paved with gold again.

What are all the P & Z types doing, now that there should be no new subdivisions for them to approve?

By: Tom Anderson

Tom Anderson — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:05:44 +0000

Maybe instead of mucking up different areas all over the valley, we could play a little game where every new development has to be built where “Drivemor” was supposed to be.

Then Ada County can pretend to approve new ‘growth’ and the developers can pretend they are going to build new suburban sprawl.

We could even pretend to care so that they can feel superior while pretending to eat as they live in a cardboard box they pretend is a real home.

By: dog

dog — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:55:39 +0000

Wonder if Avimore will support the bike commuting events this year?

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:39:12 +0000

Well they have sold 3 more than the Crescent Rim Condo project…they don’t have any sold are shutting down the project. No suprise.