Footprints expand, go wider, and get more valuable as buyers weigh initial costs against operating expenses and exit returns in their homeownership strategies.
By John McManus | Builder
If the economy has done anything over the past generation or so, it’s taught a plurality of American households the notion of behaving more like little businesses, as engines of consumption and demand, and as nodes of resource supply–of labor, capital, land, and entrepreneurial ability. 401ks led Main Street to Wall Street starting in the 1980s, and the Gig Economy and Internet of Everything continue to blur previously assumed boundaries between homes and places of work.