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View submission: Houses missing porches, why?
Uh that's pretty weird in Minneapolis. Most of Minneapolis housing stock is old as fuck so you would not see that and it's actually pretty weird to even see a full second level house in mpls in general, with a deck build even weirder because that just didn't exist 100ish years ago.
You do see it in suburban developments where the house build included a sliding door but no deck/ pay for that yourself and then people are underwater in their mortgage and just don't build it so you literally end up with 40+ year old houses with sliding doors with no decks. I would not buy such a house because if that homeowner couldn't afford to build a deck for 40 years or more they also probably didn't fix a lot of other shit and you're buying a fucking piece of shit house that has had zero maintenance since it was built in 1985 or whatever.
If this is actually in Minneapolis then it's someone who attempted to add a deck at some point and failed for whatever reason. Have fun with the permits and spending like $25k or more on a second level deck. So just factor that into the purchase price and be prepared to potentially be denied by the city to put a second level deck in for some reason.
There's nothing here!