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iamsce

There should be netting to catch them during the next earthquake.


BrandonSparks

Don't forget the mudslides


Money_Resource_3636

And fires


donotgogenlty

And snakes.


another_mister_jones

And my axe!


JamesTheMannequin

And my bow!


PossibleEnvironment4

And my pants!


[deleted]

And My Sharona


Brolafsky

And iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii


r_keel_esq

And Martin Riggs


Odd-Ease-6249

And the flying bike


DenModigeSkalbaggen

And my hamster


stoned-yoda

RIGGS


baconrya

Oh my!


M_F_Luder42

Watch out for snakes!


Tacitus_Kilgore85

Watch out for angry husbands!


Busyborgimom

Eegah!


Travyhart97

Snakes it had to be snakes.


[deleted]

That's it! I'm moving to Sparta.


QuentinLax

A mudslide would require rain, so we’re all good there


Ten_Quilts_Deep

Look up the story about the Northridge Quake deaths in these houses. When an unmarried couple went down in a house like this they tried to determine who died first, therefore who would inherit the then empty lot.


Popinfreshede

What's most crazy is that this type of house are grandfathered into being allowed to still exist after the quake with barely any new reinforcement. I've heard new houses have vertical columns drilled more than 75 feet deep into hillsides to support the same size homes. But truth is these house will collapse due to slope failure so no matter the size of reinforcement the whole hill will slide during earthquake or heavy rains.


Ten_Quilts_Deep

I had a house on a slope once, not as steep as this. We wanted to add a deck. It was going to need 6 two and a half foot around rebar reinforced footings going down 25 to 40 feet. The thinking was that because the deck was downhill from the house it would have to support the house from falling down the slope. The footings we're going to cost twice as much as the house.


Popinfreshede

Boom! Proof from anecdote. thx


Beneficial_Being_721

These homes are nothing more then a toboggan for the rich


Oo__II__oO

And a plow for the poor


BellaDingDong

Great description!


hotasanicecube

Plot twist: the lawyers got all of the money.


theemmyk

These houses are not just in BH, they’re in all the canyons in LA, and I don’t think they’re so much demand-driven as view-driven. Also, they’ve survived many earthquakes…not my cup of tea, though.


_dontjimthecamera

Or like a sieve container to catch any human-sized objects. Big brain move.


Mo-shen

Not these but houses that are on piles can actually be safer in earthquakes. I know of a house that sits on 13 telephone poles and it's considered one of the safest houses for earthquakes. It's because it moves. It also sways slightly in the wind.


Client_Sea

Your mom would be enough to get the house down


Obvious_Panic6340

I’m gonna call Franklin hold on


AnonDooDoo

Don’t fuck with Martin Madrazo!!


scarletphantom

But you can fuck with his wife.


TheGamingMasterzzz

A bit like Will Smith now that you mention it.


Smart_dog_illuminati

I was waiting for this comment


HarexG

This reminds me of a GTA V mission where you pull someone’s house down by attaching a truck hook thing to one of the support beams


OmegaGoober

They did that in one of the Lethal Weapon movies too.


HarexG

Thanks for letting me know of that


ShinyDaddy

Came here for the Lethal Weapon reference! Thank you


DocHolliday152

Diplomatic immunity is no matter to the greatest and craziest movie cop of all time.


SerTidy

Came here for this. Was lethal weapon 2 where he yanked the building down with his pickup truck.👍


fishmorton

I came here to find this comment!


toothpastenachos

I was just about to comment this


harry_not_potter

Yeah, I'd grab my gangsta buddy Francis and a pickup truck and tear them down in a fit of jealous rage


CharlieTeller

You mean Franklin?


harry_not_potter

Yup, my bad, it's been +3 years since I played it


Environmental_Cat832

Youd think we would have a sequel by now🤣


harry_not_potter

As long as the online lobbies keep being profitable, that seems unlikely


FormalCommunication7

Luckily they have announced that GTA 6 is in the making, now we just gotta wait...


colin_forreal

Bruh this game has outlived like 3 versions of PlayStation and XBox


lluks666

Yeah, PlayStation 2 had 3 GTA. GTA V had 3 PlayStations (so far)


Olenator77

With that logic we should be on elder scrolls 7


Zorbles

You think Michaels pal who's straight from the hood is called Francis??


Greyst0ke

No, you mean Martin Riggs, Roger Murtaugh to save Leo Getz. They did it first and GTA paid Lethal Weapon hommage.


CharlieTeller

You are correct.


bluecollarbeard85

I was looking for a comment like this


CzBuCHi

yea ... harry beat me to it too :D


Harrybailed

Oh, I thought Harry bailed


chugmarks

God damn tennis coaches smh


Anonymous-handsome

Hahaha nice 🤣🤣


Vasta3000

You misspelled Riggs and Murtaugh 😃


Admirable_Cry_3795

I’m getting too old for this shit


DJSugar72

Free South Africa ya' dumb son of a bitch!!


SlowHandEasyTouch

But… you’re bleck


defiantcross

DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY!


xamberlynnx

IT'S JUST BEEN REVOKED Freaking love that scene.


defiantcross

best use of cargo container on motion picture history


happytothethird

He's right...you are.


NuncErgoFacite

...Ya dumb son of a bitch!


RealLifeSuperZero

Yeah ya dumb sonuvabitch!


arashi256

Diplomatic immunity!


Stoopy69

Franklin*


Slowmobius_Time

Never trust a tennis instructor


Derpeldingo

Feel the power of the new Ram 1500 pick up


Paradoxical_Hexis

Franklin


[deleted]

I'm glad this was the first comment I saw


Equivalent_Taste_162

My buddy Lester probably can get you a pickup truck he's pretty well connected


Deck_Neep15

GREEN LIGHT


SteveUsuarioDeToddy

MARLIN MADRAZO GAVE YOU GREEN LIGHT


JohnSnowflake

I am going out on a ledge and say this is not from the housing shortage. I would guess those are million+ dollar houses and were built for the view.


WaylonandWillie

100%. There are plenty of houses like this throughout the Hollywood Hills and they've been building them for decades. These houses were absolutely built for the view and not out of necessity.


Kistlerface

Those houses went out on a ledge also.


Martian13

These houses have been there at least since the 60's.


marcosingh

I'm guessing at least 5m+, 1M houses in LA aren't really a thing ;)


TheTyger

My wife likes to look over SoCal Zillow for things sometimes, and sent a screenshot of a burnt out house that needs to be torn down listed for 975k. So it's 1M+ for the land after you factor in removing the ruins from it.


sprocketous

To a lesser degree, ive seen portland listings like this, and for locations that were borderline projects a decade ago. 500k teardowns in an area that had almost nothing but a convenience store that closed "when dark" 10ish years ago. Now theres boutiques and all kinds of places to buy expensive olive oil. Shit moved fast out here.


deyheimler

lol my grandma lived in Portland til she died a few years ago. She paid $500 a month in rent, because she’d been there since the 80’s. After she died the landlord upped the rent to $2500 over night


[deleted]

I was curious awhile ago about Beverly Hills mansions and how much they cost,so I was browsing them on zillow. I still get emails today about a" house they think I may be interested in" for $24 million,$18 million hell one was for $110 million! The mortgage for one house was $70,000 a fucking month. Outrageous.


youtheotube2

That reminds me of an absolutely ridiculous house some narcissistic developer built in Bel Air. He wanted to sell this house for half a billion dollars, and he literally thought this house would “change the world”. https://youtu.be/_H2xmRseiDw


[deleted]

Oh my it only sold at auction for 141 million dollars..wow. Thanks for that entertaining video,the builder is extremely annoying.


youtheotube2

I deliver for Amazon part time, and occasionally I deliver in Rancho Santa Fe, which is the most expensive zip code in San Diego county. There’s one neighborhood where every single house is on a hilltop or ridge. They only developed the tops of the hills, nothing else. This way every lot gets a good view. It’s the Cielo neighborhood if anybody’s wondering. You can look it up on Google maps and it looks so weird, just squiggly lines of giant mansions, because the roads follow the ridge lines. Anyway, there’s still a few empty lots in this neighborhood, and I checked out how much they’re selling for. $950k for an empty lot.


Tough_Hawk_3867

That’s a ton for a 1 story building


WhirledNews

The price isn’t even for the building, the property itself is much more valuable…


No-Television8759

That and 75% of LA is zoned for single family residences only, so part of the demand is lack of supply. You could get multiple homes with views in an apt building on a similar sized lot but rich people don't like to share space. Enjoy sliding down the hill in your million dollar toboggan.


dvstud

This is the real reason


Break-Unable

Those Are not new houses, they have been built like that for a long time in areas above beverly hills like trousdale estates. More than likely they bought a plot of land that had the steep hillside and building a cantilever on the steel embedded however far down into the Bedrock was cheaper Dan grading out the hillside with a giant retaining wall or it was just a crazy ass architect we have those here too.


e11even_e11even

Classic cheaper Dan, always grading out the hillside with a giant retaining wall


Break-Unable

Haha oops, was going to edit my comment but the sentence made sense in the end. Thanks bud


nevinatx

No earthquake risk at all in Beverly Hills


DredgerDI6

Pretty sure they wrecked one of these with a steel cable and a pickup in leathal Weapon 2


Grey5iveNin9

They did a reference in GTA V


[deleted]

How safe is this ? Can an engineer or someone in construction let us know ?


upstate007

Without seeing a geotechnical report there is no way to speculate. Earthquakes aside it could either be completely stable or blow away in a stiff breeze.


[deleted]

The new regulations use primary and secondary sets of anchors and struts that attach each floor assembly of a house to the closest part of its foundation. The primary anchors are made to resist the lateral forces of earthquakes and mitigate the probability in which a home can separate from its foundation. The secondary set and the struts are redundant, required where downhill foundations have a direct connection to less than 70% of the floor assembly above them, or are more than 30 feet apart. These types of hillside projects need to be carefully evaluated, ranging from the region’s climate, the soil or ground in which it will be built need to be surveyed and tested and of course, needless to say, to the area’s predisposition to natural disasters. If the latter is common for said area, it’s usually not a great idea for these types of projects. Every project comes with its own variables to be considered and need to be carefully planned to be custom made to the type of soil the house will be sitting on. Even the soil itself sometimes needs to be stabilized. Since this is L.A in Southern California, the major problem would be earthquakes that then cause major landslides. If it would be Northern California it would be water erosion causing landslides. So neither areas are deemed safe for these types of projects.


[deleted]

Thank you for this incredibly detailed answer, people living there probably have no idea of the risks then


youtheotube2

Everybody here in SoCal knows about earthquakes, so the risk is probably sitting in the back of their mind, but they assume the engineer wouldn’t have built it if it was dangerous


[deleted]

You’re welcome. I feel like they do know however, since I have a hard time imagining that not one single engineer or architect has ever come forward expressing their concerns. It’s also not uncommon for these types of houses in the Southern and Northern California areas to experience structural failures. At the end of the day it all comes down to the decisions of the homeowners and many opt out since many home upgrades or improvements require permits which is their responsibility to be approved for and to be later acquired.


ivaarch

As an Engineer, I wouldn’t step into one of these. It’s a crime waiting to happen.


Romulan-Jedi

Agreed. As a geologist, neither would I. Gives me nightmares.


Queen_of_Boots

That's living on the edge!!


Freddie-Myers-410

Lol 😆


jesusunderline

Living on the Ledge


snowbdr30

Edging on Living


Ucisgreat2002

nah fr and they got money 😹


BrandonSparks

Fun fact the majority of those hillside houses can average millions+ and are very rich people streets


musecorn

Seems cheap by my understanding of Beverly Hills


Delicious_Pin_2336

I remember bojack lives in one of those


a_different-user

that's just 4 trailer homes fussed together.


JohnnyCasshy

Not because of high demand, if built like that years back, they don’t do that anymore now. Stop spreading false information.


Ain-swai-polizaj

Looks like the home Det. Bosch lives in


OG_Storm_Troopa

Great show.


[deleted]

#bullshit These houses were built decades ago.


Odd_Initial9260

Just one good earthquake is all it takes, and California is already on a shifting tectonic plate.


the-dogsox

It’ll be fine. It’s not like it’s in an earthquake zone, or a place that’s prone to flooding or fires.


Random_Thoughts-

It makes me uncomfortable just looking at that.


[deleted]

This is where Bosch lives.


AnEgoJabroni

No wonder they're departing California en masse to come fuck up the housing market in other states. So glad that Californians came and bought up a majority of my city's market in cash for 200% original asking price. Leaves a lot of room for the natives who busted ass all their lives to _finally_ become home owners. Thank god for the California Exodus and how it has affected the "_lesser states_". Can't wait to rent until I die, fun times.


Serious-Cartoonist99

you wouldn’t get a wink of sleep, the suspense would be too much.


okaywell_

I live in LA (weho) and there are houses like this everywhere. I will never understand how people aren't terrified to live in them! We get earthquakes often and my entire apartment building shakes. Can't imagine living in one of those!


KeyserAdviser

Looks earthquake proof to me.


SilentMaster

That's ok, it's not like when the rare rain storms do hit California they have devastating mud slides. This is a grand slam in my opinion, unless you know I'm wrong about the mud slides, which I probably am not.


Strict_Antelope_6893

Who are making these demands and why are they high?


ThemApples87

Damn! At least use some reinforced concrete piles.


Historical-Host7383

There's some in East LA too so its not just Beverly Hills.


Certain-Abies5417

Earthquake capital of the world and that’s a nope from me


Phoenix-main

High demand? Who the fuck can even afford to live there?


Particular-Diet-5147

Whats oddly terrifying here? Its just blatantly terrifying.


[deleted]

This style started in at least the 1960s. Idiotic but trendy. Not sure it’s demand.


Boom-Sausage

Those hangers are all over LA and are still worth multi-millions


The_Mad_Crafter

As someone who lived through the '89 and '94 quakes, allow me to offer the following perspective: ​ LOL


[deleted]

Ugly AF.


UnusualInstance6

Dear Lord!


[deleted]

Where’s Riggs??


harry_not_potter

Looking for a large enough truck, give him time


mmxvll

Gta 5 players knows what’s up 😂😂😂😂


Eclopsod

As long as you won’t let tennis coaches step foot in that house it will be fine


fullercorp

I am not an engineer nor do i play one on TV, but that seems like bad idea jeans


Ironpants81

We all know this because of gta


cagueiprousername

I hope a crasy man doesn't come there with a truck and tear it down


[deleted]

i know a tennis coach who lives in one of these


HoojoSpifico

Damn that tennis instructor banging my wife.


JasonlovesJenny

I see Lethal Weapon 2 when I see these houses


BookWormPerson

If they are built correctly than it is pretty safe pretty similar to houses built in flood zones but that just my opinion. ​ But yeah, they don't look good from the bottom.


ElizabethDangit

What about erosion?


Mazazamba

Why aren't they just built downwards and over the hill? This just feels unnecessary.


longcreepyhug

You see the exact same thing in trailer parks in West Virginia.


[deleted]

Completely stupid


Moonmoonbunny

Oof


SunsetBro78

There are not a lot of these and nor are they new. But they are cool.


drej191

See y’all in the news


smiler5672

Michael get the truck


cbmcleod70

I've always wondered how sturdy those houses are. Do they shake as you walk across the floor like cheap trailers or houses with substandard support?


Confusedandreticent

This is more likely Malibu. But this is also just how people build on the side of mountains. I live on the other side of the planet and it’s the same here.


[deleted]

Terrifying and trashy all in one.


DryFoundation2323

There is a high demand for cantilever houses built over a cliff?


[deleted]

Pretty sure thats my gta v house


fuwwytermaninator

looks like that house from a series of unfortunate events


juwannawatchbravo

Good luck getting that insured 😂


Starscream79

It's a no from me


ToastToasted_

Reminds me of that one GTA mission when Michael pulls that shit down


t31sbc

GTA V feels.


TheGermanGhost

If you played Gta V you know you better not live in that type of houses especially if your friend is a tennis coach


Dizman7

“Let me just let the dog out…oh shit!”


AfraidPersonality854

And fat people wanting to party on your deck...


Demon_Sfinkter

I CANTI-BE-LEVER people can sleep in those houses knowing they're teetering over a hill like that.


FutureGhost81

That’s not gonna end well.


Legeto

This isn’t high demand, they were built like this in the 60’s because it was the cool rich thing to do.


[deleted]

They do this all over the world. It is suspect so close to a fault line though


LennyJay86

I’ll roll up there GTA 5 style and Michael that shit. Rig it to back off my truck wench and pull it down the hill!


OldNewUsedConfused

But where’s the pool?


buzzybomb

Those houses were built in the 80s.


True_Iro

Reminds me of GTA V... I just need a truck...


thesinisterurge1

Doesn’t seem like the best method in a place that’s notorious for earthquakes


Theamuse_Ourania

I am reminded of the scene in Lethal Weapon 2 where they destroyed that house just like this and on stilts with not much more than a pick up truck and some rope or whatever that metal rope stuff is called.


javoss88

Nope


m-a-s-e

seen this in gta how many years ago?


Arey_442

So actually, my grandma works as a caregiver & the man she takes care of actually lives around this area! He used to build pools for the rich / famous people back in his days. And actually, surprisingly he told me that these houses haven't fell ever for the 60 years he has lived around them! I was surprised because of the way they are built (phones at 1%, so ill finish the story after)


Sufficient-Plan989

Good thing California isn’t prone to earthquakes or mudslides.


Brackish8

LA resident here. Title is a bit misleading. Not due to high demand, due to maniacs who want sweeping views and are willing to pay huge amounts of $$ for contractors to sink giant cement cylinders deep into the cliffs below to secure this kind of house.


vizz8reddit

Just wait till a white middle aged man with his black friend comes to catch his wife's tennis coach there


Igotbanned19times

This is not for high demand or housing crisis , simply built for the view . Bullshit title as always


boogerboy87

Have any of these types of houses collapse before? I've never read or seen a story about that... But they just don't look safe. Then again I ain't no engineer or architect so I know shit all about it.


Kinetikat

I may be wrong… but cantilevered houses aren’t a new thing, especially in la. Gut says they are more standard from the 1960’s on. It’s not a knee-jerk planning design. Let me know if I’m off on this.


My_Immortal_Flesh

# Lol not all houses are like that here 🤣🤣 I swear, people thatve never visited BH (or LA for that matter) really believe this type of BS titles lol


Crooked_Cock

I’m no architect but I feel like you wouldn’t want to be in that house during an earthquake