anyone here live in (or recently seen) saltillo, pedernales, or satsuma53 lofts?

any feedback will be appreciated. thanks.

I've seen pictures of Pedernales Lofts and have driven and walked past them. My verdict: They disgust me. They're a complete and utter ripoff. And I image the other developments are more or less the same.

From the outside the Pedernales development is ugly, just looks like a big grey box with no interesting architectural features at all. The interiors don't fare much better. Boring and cheap looking all around. And speaking of cheap, I can only imagine how incredibly inexpensive those units were to build, but boy do they sell them at a premium. Your looking at a good $250k for a 1200sf/1bdrm. Or $175k for one that's probably 800sf or so. At those prices I'd just buy a plot of land or a tear down in the same area and have a similar sized dwelling designed and built.

The Saltillo's look a bit more interesting, but still overpriced IMHO. Same goes for the others. I don't think you'll find any of them selling for under $200sf.

Hell, for those prices just go 6 miles further east and buy a much larger and infinitely better designed home in the Agave Development.

Here's a couple craigslist links to Pedernales lofts:

[url href=http://austin.craigslist.org/rfs/144909505.html]http://austin.craigslist.org/rfs/144909505.html[/url]
[url href=http://austin.craigslist.org/rfs/140710476.html]http://austin.craigslist.org/rfs/140710476.html[/url]

And a link to info on the Agave Development:

[url href=http://www.greenmangorealestate.com/index.cfm?p=agave] http://www.greenmangorealestate.com/index.cfm?p=agave[/url]