#it's that usually these characters often compensate for their lack of physical attractiveness

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🥳🎉 it's complete!!! 🥳🎉 36k~ words. not bad!!

not me writing 8k words of a watchmen fanfic in a single day hahahaha

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                         DISABILITY && MENTAL HEALTH

This post will cover items such as disabilities, mental health, PTSD and trauma in relation to Scott. These are things which are either canon for him, or headcanons I want to pay more attention to on my blog.

I do not have any personal experience with any of the items I will address in this post, which means that most (if not all) of my information is gained through reading and research online. If there are items I missed out on or have described incorrectly, you may contact me about this to kindly help me figure out a new/better way to put things into words. It’s in no way my intention to upset anyone, or bring forth wrong information.

To me, it just feels like Scott is a good opportunity to improve the representation of characters and people who deal with visual impairment because the narrative that disability is binary caused that most blind characters in popular media have no vision at all. Blind characters in heroic roles like Daredevil, have powers that completely compensate for their blindness while blind people who don’t have these compensations are usually portrayed as helpless.

As a team leader and a superhero, Scott offers a good opportunity to include people who are visually impaired, yet often ignored or left out of the heroic narrative.

Needless to say, do NOT reblog this post && don’t interact with it if you’re not a RP blog.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS : 1. Scott’s brain trauma and injury 2. Scott’s PTSD during his youth 3. Symptoms and signs of PTSD for Scott 4. Scott is (legally) blind 5. Scott cannot distinguish colours 6. How Scott deals with his visual impairment 7. The X-Mansion and dealing with trauma 8. Additional notes

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1. SCOTT’S BRAIN TRAUMA AND INJURY When Scott was a young boy, he went on a travel with his parents and his little brother Alex. The family’s private jet was ambushed by an alien Shi’ar scouting ship. The boys lost their parents on that unfortunate day and in the crash, Scott took a hit to the head after his mutant powers manifested for the first time and allowed Scott to break his fall and allow him and Alex to survive. The head injury Scott suffered on that day would permanently disable the part of Scott’s brain which would have enabled him to control his optic blasts. Additionally, Scott (as well as Alex) suffered traumatic amnesia regarding the accident. Unlike his brother, Scott was forced to remain hospitalized for up to a year.

As a teenager, Scott began to suffer from severe headaches and he was sent to a specialist (Mr. Sinister in disguise) who provided him with lenses made of ruby-quartz. Scott’s mutant power erupted from his eyes as an uncontrollable blast of optic force and the only means to control it ever since have been the ruby-quartz lenses Sinister gave him. Sinister knew the lenses would help due to experiments and research he had been doing on the boy while Scott lived at the orphanage where Sinister had feigned being the owner.

2. SCOTT’S POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER DURING HIS YOUTH After losing his parents and waking up alone at the hospital after the plane crash, Scott was placed in the State Home for Foundlings, an orphanage in Omaha (Nebraska) where he was subjected to batteries of tests and experiments by the orphanage’s owner, Mr. Milbury (alias, Mr. Sinister). He placed mental blocks on Scott and took on the role of ‘Lefty’, who was Scott’s roommate and bully at the orphanage. During his time spent at the orphanage, Scott was subjected to several occasions which would leave him traumatized — such as the attempt of one of the other orphaned boys at taking his own life, and Scott’s failed attempt at saving him. Any time anyone came close to adopting Scott, Sinister intervened.

At some point, Scott demolished a crane with his optic blast, by accident. He had saved a crowd of people by using his blast again to destroy the crane before it would crush the people, but they believed he was out to kill them and chased the young mutant boy. Scott woke the attention of a mutant criminal who sought to use Scott’s powers in his crimes, but abused the kid when Summers refused. At that time, he had also attracted the attention of Charles Xavier who tracked down Scott and took him in as the first of his team of X-Men...

3. SYMPTOMS OF SCOTT’S PTSD — Reliving the traumatic event (during his childhood) :: as a boy, Scott was fond of airplanes and dreamed of becoming a pilot himself one day. But when he was taken to an air show by one of the orphanage’s nurses, he had a violent traumatic reaction in the middle of the show, reciting things he otherwise doesn’t consciously remember. — Negative Thoughts and Feelings :: Scott often deals with feelings of anger, guilt, fear or numbness. He’s prone to blame himself for things going wrong on missions with the X-Men. When someone comes to pass, he’s quick to take up responsibility and the blame for it, and occasionally even deals with survivor’s guilt. Scott also feels cut off from his friends and family and hardly keeps much interest for day-to-day activities. He hardly does them to relax, but rather only when they become necessary. — Avoidance :: Scott feels like he has to keep busy at all times, he doesn’t want to think or talk about anything in relation to his past, feels emotionally cut off from his feelings, struggles to express his emotions or affection towards others and thus comes across as numb and cold and very serious and occasionally does risky things which could be self-destructive or reckless. He’s often the first in line to sacrifice himself for the X-Men not only because he’s their leader, but also because he has little to no value for his own life. — Disturbed sleep and lack of sleep. — Taking risks and hypervigilance. — Intrusive thoughts. — Nightmares. — Trust issues. — “No one understands.”-mentality. — The sense of never being at peace.

4. SCOTT IS (LEGALLY) BLIND While Scott was born with perfectly normal eyesight, and perfect vision, he no longer has the ability to see without his ruby-quartz lenses ever since his optic blasts came to manifest. Only ruby-quartz can keep the optic blasts under control, meaning that any other means of vision such as regular glasses or lenses would not be of help for Scott. Scott literally can’t see without his ruby-quartz shades. Opening his eyes would prove incredibly destructive to his nearest surroundings.

Someone who is completely blind can’t see any light or form. Of the people with eye disorders, only about 15% can see nothing at all. If you’re legally blind, you can still see, just not that clearly. Normal vision is 20/20. That means you can clearly see an object 20 feet away. If you’re legally blind, your vision is 20/200 or less in your beter eye or your field of vision is less than 20 degrees.

In addition to being unable to distinguish colors due to the red tint in his glasses, they also reduce his low-light vision, which means Scott deals with low vision.

5. SCOTT CANNOT DISTINGUISH COLOURS I’m not using the term colorblindless in this post for the main reason that Google gives me too many search results in relation to racism, and I do not intend to use a term that has a double meaning that could be taken the wrong way.

Scott’s ruby-quartz lenses cause him to see the world through a veil of red. The lenses are tinted in red which alters Scott’s general, every day perception of the world. He sees the world in shades of grey, white, black and red and can no longer distinguish any other colours. Maybe rather than ‘colourblindness’, Scott deals with something alike to monochromacy. Though, Scott’s monochromacy is perhaps not of a kind that has been officially diagnosed in real life cases before.

The comics and movies rarely acknowledge Scott’s eyesight aside from him claiming to have an ‘eye condition’ as an excuse for him to wear sunglasses all the time. Scott’s adaptations to being unable to distinguish different colours would be mostly rather subtle and maybe it doesn’t inherently add onto the story a comic book or movie wants to tell, but they shouldn’t be ignored in how I wish to bring Scott in my writing...

6. HOW SCOTT DEALS WITH HIS VISUAL IMPAIRMENT — High contrast text and browser extensions for reading. — Color coding his outfits. He labels them with what color they are and organizes his closet by items that go together. — As a prodigy at billiards, Scott has a special billiards set adjusted to his specific needs. — Large prints for letters, books, digital fonts, etc. — Increased brightness on any of his devices’ screens. — Assistance from ‘self-driving’ tech when flying the Blackbird or riding his motorcycle. He knows the majority of controls through muscle memory by now. — Assistive technology to improve contrast, especially at night. — Scott owns a touch-based Rubik’s Cube. — Help from his closest friends.

7. THE X-MANSION AND DEALING WITH TRAUMA Scott and Ororo both (among others), are hyper aware of the traumas some of their students have experienced. They recognize behaviours and reactions in trauma survivors because they have been in such a position themselves as well. They made sure the school has a clear set of rules and policies on the safety and comfort of students. The school faculty received training in mental health first aid, there’s places students can retreat to when they feel anxious or suffer from power meltdown.

People like Scott, Jean and Rogue would know how to handle students who have gone through different types of abuse. As trauma survivors themselves, they’d take extra steps to reassure students who have every reason to distrust adults. They would announce themselves when approaching students from behind, maintain wide personal space bubbles and refrain from initiating physical contact such as hugs or touching students without asking them first. They see there’s no use in raising your voice to the kids, and won’t tollerate any kind of jokes about trauma. Scott is rumoured to be very strict on the rules of the house concerning mental health.

8. ADDITIONAL NOTES While Scott is aware that there is no shame in any of what he deals with every day, he still keeps it under wraps a lot. He doesn’t ever want for his visual impairment or his trauma to become his only and main personality trait other people associate with him. This is why a lot of people may not even know that he is dealing with these things on the daily. He’s very subtle about everything and only those who get to know him better may begin to see and notice things which indicate that he’s disabled. Scott has grown so adjusted to living with his disabilities that they commonly no longer cause him trouble.

The only people who know Scott is visually impaired because he told them himself are Charles (confidant and father-figure), Jean (lover, the person he maybe trusts more than anyone else), Hank (as the resident scientist), Ororo (as his fellow team leader) and Emma Frost (as his therapist).

Scott has been able to take therapy sessions with Charles during his early years, and later on with Emma Frost. Jean has also helped him an incredibly great deal on coping with his trauma and PTSD, lack of self-esteem and dealing with his emotions and expressing them more openly.

To this day, Scott still suffers from migraines and occasional moments of memory loss. His brain injury does not always allow him to maintain or store knowledge accurately. His migraines are a result of his optic blast building up surplus energy. When Scott can’t use his optic blast regularly, he will build up a surplus energy which manifests into migraines.

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Generic Headcanons (Sanses)

This list includes short bits of information on the various Sanses to be included on this blog. If you’re looking for a specific one, please use CTRL+F to search for the AU, due to the length of this list. Reminder as well that most of this information is entirely headcanon. If there’s canon information that I’ve messed up somewhere on this, please let me know so I can fix it and adjust accordingly!

Please note: When answering asks, I will first list the character being requested in the format of AU!Sans, but the nicknames here are listed because sometimes I drift off while writing and lean towards those names.

Undertale

Nickname/s: Comic, Tale Date of Birth: ??? Height: 4′9″ / 145 cm Gender: demiboy Pronouns: he/him Sexuality: demiromantic / asexual

+ takes a lot of time to like someone at all, usually by default doesn’t trust people + isn’t a fan of physical contact, but if someone was to manage to get close to him, he’s incredibly cuddly + horrible with directions, will get lost really easily; uses shortcuts to make up for it

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Underswap (original concept by p0pcornpr1nce, who has left the fandom and deleted the content)

Nickname/s: Blue Date of Birth: ??? Height: 4′9″ / 145 cm Gender: non-binary Pronouns: he/him Sexuality: demiromantic / bisexual

+ is a pun connoisseur; will only accept the best puns, anything less is just unacceptable + is emotional, but tries to hide it because he feels the need to keep on a strong persona for the sake of everyone else +  is secretly an incredibly talented writer and has a lot of written works in his room

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Underfell (original concept by Vic the Underfella)

Nickname/s: Red, Fell Date of Birth: ??? Height: 4′9″ / 145 cm Gender: cisman Pronouns: he/him Sexuality: panromantic / pansexual

+ is extremely self-conscious and hides this by acting like as much of a confident asshole as possible + crushes incredibly easy due to the lack of caring people he has in his life, but refuses to believe he’s lovable + secretly hates cats. doomfanger may or may not be the cause of this

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Underlust  (original concept by nsfwshamecave, who has left the fandom.)

Nickname/s: Lust, Lusty Date of Birth: ??? Height: 4′9″ / 145 cm Gender: demiboy Pronouns: he/him Sexuality: biromantic / bisexual

+ is secretly a hopeless romantic, but has yet to meet anyone interested in romance over sex, so he takes what he can get + flirts with anything that breathes; has a plethora of horrible pick-up lines + has been outside of his own AU and is well-versed in the multiverse

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Xtale (by jakei)

Nickname/s: Cross Date of Birth: Oct. 10th Height: 4′9″ / 145 cm Gender: cisman Pronouns: he/him Sexuality: demiromantic / bisexual

+ has difficulty trusting anyone anymore due to the betrayal he’s had in the past + he finds comfort in doodling or other art-related things, and can often be found locked away for hours doing so + will wear literally anything but his uniform when no one’s around, no matter how stupid it looks

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Ink (by myebi/comyet) (same headcanons apply to Underverse!Ink)

Nickname/s: None Date of Birth: April 15 Height: 3′9″ / 116 cm Gender: demiboy Pronouns: he/him Sexuality: aromantic / asexual

+ his ink vials’ colors represent: green = comfort/safety, yellow = joy/energy, orange = encouragement/creativity, red = wrath/violence, pink = love/care, purple = lust/attraction, blue = sadness/concern, cyan = calm/relaxed + refuses to ever drink his pink or purple vials anymore due to the fact he doesn’t want to mislead people into thinking he cares about them + his tastes change based on what emotions he’s feeling/ink he’s drank

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Pale (by unu-nunu-art/unu-nunium)

Nickname/s: None Date of Birth: May 26th Height: 3′9″ / 116 cm Gender: cisman Pronouns: he/him Sexuality: aromantic / asexual

+ clings to people who help him literally only once, because he considers all nice gestures as “Oh, so we’re friends now?” + appreciates any and all physical contact and can get a bit nervous if he’s near someone but can’t hug them + when he absorbs an AU for emotions, he has even more emotions that Ink does, but it’s far more temporary

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Fresh!Ink (by myebi/comyet)

Nickname/s: None Date of Birth: ??? Height: 5′0″ / 152 cm Gender: cisman Pronouns: he/him Sexuality: aromantic / asexual

+ is a parasite like Fresh is, but isn’t the same exact one; they exist as separate beings + doesn’t ever really drink ink vials, hence why he’s replaced them with his spray cans entirely, which just contain normal pain + enjoys making large street-art style murals, but never keeps them, so he places them in hugely inconvenient parts of the multiverse just to annoy people

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Error (by loverofpiggies/CrayonQueen) (same headcanons apply to Underverse!Error)

Nickname/s: None Date of Birth: April 4th Height: 5′4″ / 163 cm Gender: cisman Pronouns: he/him Sexuality: demiromantic / demisexual

+ doesn’t trust anyone and would rather just dispose of someone before he gets the chance to even try and trust them + has tried to delete his own emotions on several occasions, but concludes he must lose his SOUL to do so, and is too scared he’ll die + lacks logic due to the fact that he’s a glitch in a program, meaning he can no longer create logical conclusions

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Template (by unu-nunu-art/unu-nunium)

Nickname/s: None Date of Birth: April 3rd Height: 4′5″ / 135 cm Gender: cisman Pronouns: he/him Sexuality: demiromantic / demisexual

+ constantly does a plethora of redeemable, good things within the multiverse to compensate for the fact he’s an “Error” + tries to be more comfortable with things like hugs in order to further distance himself from Error, despite also having haphephobia. + unlike Error, remembers his past as Geno a lot more vividly

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Ragnartale (by NaomyMikolMaria) (please note I’m a bit behind on this AU)

Nickname/s: Knight Date of Birth: ??? Height: 5′5″ / 165 cm Gender: cisman Pronouns: he/him Sexuality: heteroromantic / demisexual

+ doesn’t like using his magic anymore, but can’t exactly remember why it leaves a bad taste in his mouth + actively tries to void out his emotions for others’ sake, as he finds his own life far less valuable + part of him likes being a monster more than a human, because he thinks he looks horrible now and that more people will leave him alone

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Dusttale (by ask-dusttale)

Nickname/s: Dust, Dusty Date of Birth: ??? Height: 4′9″ / 145 cm Gender: demiboy Pronouns: he/him Sexuality: lithromantic / asexual

+ absolutely despises all humans and it wouldn’t be surprising if he tried to kill any on sight + can often be seen talking aloud to “himself,” but he’s actually talking to “Papyrus” + has the same observant skills as Sans and is just as quick on his feet if not faster, however he’s also more rash in his decision-making due to his insanity.

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Fresh (by loverofpiggies/CrayonQueen)

Nickname/s: None Date of Birth: April 20th (pretends it’s April 1st) Height: 6′3″ / 191 cm Gender: genderfluid Pronouns: he/him or they/them Sexuality: aromantic / asexual

+ while he be default doesn’t have any emotions, if for some reason he starts to feel anything, he will reject it immediately, and become incredibly harsh + started dressing in 90′s clothes as a joke, now he enjoys them unironically and has genuinely started watching human 90′s shows + sends memes to Error just to piss him off; his favorite to send is Rick Rolls

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Outertale (by 2mi127)

Nickname/s: Outer Date of Birth: ??? Height: 4′9″ / 145 cm Gender: demiboy Pronouns: he/him Sexuality: demiromantic / asexual

+ because he can see the stars all the time, he’s far more fascinated by the Earth’s sun and atmosphere compared to other Sanses + has had his jacket since he was a kid but just didn’t bother getting rid of it. that and he never outgrew it. sometimes people still think he’s a kid because of it + gets cold easily; his jacket is extremely thick and fuzzy to make up for this

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Altertale (by friisans)

Nickname/s: Guardian Date of Birth: ??? Height: 4′9″ / 145 cm Gender: demiboy Pronouns: he/him Sexuality: biromantic / demisexual

+ despises his brother so much that he won’t even look in his general direction and will likely burn or destroy anything that reminds him of his brother + appears very calm and collected most of the time, but can easily turn around and be manipulative or angry when least expected + is horrible at keeping watch of the human children because he always teaches them how to exploit things and they use that against him

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Aftertale (by loverofpiggies/CrayonQueen)

Nickname/s: Geno Date of Birth: ??? Height: 5′0″ / 152 cm Gender: demiboy Pronouns: he/him Sexuality: demiromantic / demisexual

+ is really bad at social interaction due to extended isolation and because of that may come off as blunt or rude + if anyone acts friendly around him, especially if they are a more physical kind of person, he will instantly not trust them + seeing spaghetti is a sure way to make him burst into tears, but he’ll pretend he’s not actually crying

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Swapfell (by poptatochisp and community)

Nickname/s: Mal Date of Birth: ??? Height: 5′3″ / 160 cm Gender: cisman Pronouns: he/him Sexuality: panromantic / demisexual

+ doesn’t do well with people who disagree with him. this will cause genuine unintended arguments over the smallest things + very formal in most situations possible, but assumes everyone else should be too + is bad at emotions, just, in general. understanding them, having them, everything

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TGCF mbti typings

I typed Xielian, Huacheng and Junwu before here but I am adding on to my typings for all three of them.

Xielian - ENFJ

Fe: I think most people can agree that he is an FJ. His narration is dominated and permeated by an awareness and concern for others’ well-being and their feelings, with little to no focus, awareness or reflection on his own feelings --> Fe, lack of Fi. He shows signs of feeling responsible for people’s well-being.

Ni: He is NFJ rather than SFJ: when he was young, he was arrogant because of the conviction he had in his beliefs, which I think is because he took his belief as more real than even reality itself (Ni). He was confident because he was confident in the ‘truth’ of his ideals, and his ideals are distinctly NF: he wanted to save all the people. 800 years later, his idealism is still very clear. When he explains what happened in the Yongan war, he said that he would rather Lang Qianqiu think that he had died than that his ideals were wrong or flawed. Ideals were important to him over all else, even how people saw him --> Ni. The scene at the end of the book in the mountain where he would rather Junwu harm him than to admit that his ideals were wrong again shows how heavily he prioritizes his ideals over all else.

Introversion or extroversion?: I used to think he was an extrovert because he was often involved in many events and actions in TGCF, but most of his ‘extroversion’ is because he is responding to the roller-coaster of events and crises happening. He is pushed into action rather than initiating action. So, perhaps an introvert?

Extroversion, tertiary Se: However, he is very forgiving and very patient, even towards others who have harmed him, or people who are bad, cruel or hurtful (Fe-doms tend to forgive much easier than Fe-auxes) and his flaws seem to be more directly related to inferior Ti (not advocating sufficiently for himself and his needs, periods of intense self-doubt)... In Book 4, he was quick to regain faith in people if only ONE person would be kind to him, which to me spoke more of dominant Fe’s forgiveness and ability to trust in others. His low self-awareness of his feelings --> dominant Fe. When he is under stress, it is mostly expressed through tertiary Se: anger towards others, hot-headed, rather than Ti: criticism of others. His Se is too strong for inferior Se: he actually adapts very well to the rapid changes and crisis, and he is very quick on his feet. 

I had thought that when compared to Shi Qingxuan, he seems like an introvert, but I think Chinese society does not reward overly extroverted behavior, but rewards fitting social expectations. So, one is usually less expressive and minds one’s business. It means that in Chinese society, Fe-doms come off almost like introverts.

Huacheng also compensates for his low Se-Ti. Huacheng simplifies his overthinking/overworrying, helps him cut through things when it’s complicated, helps him look at things in a more realistic way because he helps XL understand what he can/can’t control, and helps him find contentment/happiness in the present moment.

Given that Xielian is ENFJ, Junwu is likely ENFJ as well.

Huacheng - ISTP or ISFP depending on what MXTX needs him to be for the narration

Ti-dom v Fi-dom: Huacheng is very hard to type because MXTX projects onto him quite heavily, lol. 800 years ago, Huacheng is that ISFP stereotype: intense and emotional, angsty and angry, devoted and fierce. Most of time, when it’s a scene related to the past, or it’s a Tonglu scene, Huacheng will be ISFP, lol. For instance, in Book 3/4, when Xielian and Fengxin/Muqing enter Mt Tonglu, every character commented on how different Huacheng seemed, and I can only conclude that it was because they were reacting to the ISFP Huacheng, lol.

Aux-Se: I think the only thing that doesn’t change about him is the aux-Se. In the past, it was seen in how his pent-up feelings expressed themselves physically, through shouting or anger. In the present, it’s seen in his extravagant, ‘just coz’ gestures of love towards Xielian (the temple with the lanterns, the carriage, etc). Even when he kept changing his clothes during the Black Water arc was a sign of him using Se to entertain himself through his boredom. Xielian also describes him as playful, and not taking things seriously and he likes to tease Xielian to watch him get flustered.

Ti-dom: Dominant Ti is obvious in present Hualian. He is very detached and is quite hard to know unless he cares about you. He has a very small number of people he cares about (literally only Xielian, lol). During the Black Water arc, he stood by the sidelines despite other characters being in danger, and he was perfectly comfortable with ignoring the danger/distress of everyone involved, because he didn’t feel morally/emotionally affected nor personally involved in the slightest, showing amorality --> high Ti. Ti-doms generally prefer watching how things will play out before intervening, especially if messy emotions are on display.

The arrogance towards others, the superiority/dismissive attitude towards people is a classic example of immature and reductive dominant Ti. He is also strongly characterized as being very sharp, analytical and investigative. The way he understands people is very simplistic and reductive, none of the nuance of an F, more like a T with F issues: he generally seems to see people as useless and not worth his attention unless they are useful or they are dangerous (powerful).

Inferior Te or inferior Fe: His inferiority complex and his desperation with feeling so powerless puzzled me for a long time. It sounded like a Feeler using their lower Thinking function to deal with pain, and it sounds specifically like lower Te trying to compensate for higher Fi wounds. In other words, trying to be powerful in the external world to feel less powerless when the wound is actually inside, not outside. It was not consistent with the way a Thinker might relate to issues of powerlessness. I entertained the possibility that the confident and arrogant Huacheng was a facade that was put up (a Feeler using their lower Thinking function to pretend to be powerful, capable and competent), but it doesn’t make sense, because as an ISFP, this would mean he was using inferior Te for prolonged periods of time (800 years, give or take?) and who is able to sustain that? It would mean his personality is gripping most of the time and he would actually be very psychologically unstable, but the confident and competent Huacheng seems quite at ease being confident and competent, not like he’s putting on a facade, and it seems more like there are two totally different Huachengs. ISFP Huacheng struggles with powerlessness and having absolutely NO self-worth whatsoever. ISTP Huacheng, if MXTX had ever developed him, likely would have struggled with seeing people valuable in and of themselves, rather than waste-of-spaces. (Ti integrating Fe)

Conclusion: Xielian is attracted to the ISTP Huacheng - he finds Huacheng’s confidence and easy way of carrying himself very attractive (lower function envy), and I think the strength of Hualian lies in the ENFJ/ISTP attraction and dynamic. MXTX said in the notes at the end of book two that she wrote this book because of seeing the image of an abandoned temple with the a soon-to-be forgotten god and his last believer. It seems that her original plan for the devoted follower/love interest was for him to be an ISFP (and the nature of dominant Fi would make for a very good devoted love interest), but when it came to the actual ship, she herself quite liked powerful badass T types (see Lan Wangji and Huacheng’s almost ridiculous badass competence), and she made him a Ti-dom instead.

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Character Chart Character’s full name: William David Afton Reason or meaning of name: Resolute protector; will. Character’s nickname: Will, Springtrap Reason for nickname: Short for William, impaled and trapped by springlocks. Birth date: 10th of May, 1953

Physical appearance Age: 66 How old does he/she appear: Corpse-like. Weight: Heavyset in life, shriveled now, around 600 lbs. in suit. Height: 6′6″ in life, 6′0″ now, 7′6″ in suit. Body build: Sturdy muscle-fat in life, emaciated now, bulky in suit. Shape of face: Rounded, strong jaw. Eye color: Silver in life, purple glow in eye sockets now, silver-white in suit. Glasses or contacts: Reading glasses in life. Skin tone: Sickly, yellowish-pale in life, dusky bruise-purple now, faded green-yellow in suit. Distinguishing marks: Full-body scars in complex patterns from springlocks. Tears and stains in suit.  Predominant features: Striking eyes and salt-and-pepper hair in life. Now... well he’s stuffed into a decaying bunny robot. Hair color: Brown with silver sides in life. None now. Type of hair: Thick with widow’s peaks in life, wavy, well groomed. None now. Hairstyle: Medium length, brushed back in life. Voice: It will melt your pants right off. Rich, deep and proper. Dry, gravely tone post-death. Overall attractiveness: Isn’t that entirely subjective? Dadly, but sharp-featured in life. Might make you think “Come on, you’re the devil aren’t you”. Super dead now. Physical disabilities: Multiple chronic illnesses, both physical and psychological in life. Remnant dependence in death. Usual fashion of dress: Business professional to business casual in life. Springlock suit now. Favorite outfit: Black button up, purple vest, black or purple slacks on life. Jewelry or accessories: Ties, simple rings in life. Not many now, unless you count various upgrades like stainless steel retractable claws. Personality Good personality traits: Intelligent, curious, dedicated. Bad personality traits: Unsympathetic, selfish, obsessive. Mood character is most often in: Feral scientist mood? Sense of humor: Not immediately apparent, but more present than it seems. Both dark and childish. Character’s greatest joy in life: The joy of creation. Character’s greatest fear: Absolute, true death. Why?: Thanatophobia? He can’t imagine not existing or able to ensure that he is remembered. What single event would most throw this character’s life into complete turmoil?: I’d say that already happened and it was either the bite of ‘83 or when he was springlocked and sealed away. Character is most at ease when: Fueled up on remnant and in the presence of family and/or loved ones. Most ill at ease when: Low on remnant and/or restrained/sealed somewhere. Enraged when: Exposed to willful ignorance. Depressed or sad when: Losing/rejected by family or loved ones. Priorities: Staying alive forever, keeping family and loved ones alive forever, by any means necessary, up to and including murder/human experimentation. Life philosophy: “There isn’t a way out anymore. All there is is family.” If granted one wish, it would be: Absolutely assurance that he and his family/loved ones will live happily forever. Why?:  Thanatophobia? Character’s soft spot: Anyone he considers family, be they biologically related, close by relationship alone, or simply former victims who haven’t turned against him. Is this soft spot obvious to others?: I’d argue that it SHOULD be, but his status as a murderer causes it to be easily glazed over. Greatest strength: Absolute refusal to die. “I always come back.” Greatest vulnerability or weakness: H U B R I S. Biggest regret: Not preventing the accidents that killed his children. Minor regret: Killing Henry’s daughter Charlie. Biggest accomplishment: Immortality. Minor accomplishment: Improved his pizza recipe, it’s really good now. Past failures he/she would be embarrassed to have people know about: Lacks the self awareness to be embarrassed, I think. Even failures were in the name of progress. Why?: Because science, duh. Character’s darkest secret: Well, he’s a child murderer. Does anyone else know?: God yeah. Goals Drives and motivations: Obtaining and maintaining immortality, and furthering science in general. Immediate goals: Stay alive! Long term goals: Stay alive! How the character plans to accomplish these goals: Stealing the life force of others! How other characters will be affected: They’ll probably die, I imagine. :3c Past Hometown: Cambridge, England Type of childhood: Troubled, raised mostly by a single mother. Pets: Uh-oh. Oh no. First memory: Finding his father’s drowned body. Most important childhood memory: Oof probably that same one. Why: It sure did mess him up. Childhood hero: None really, but aspired to outdo many influential scientists. Dream job: Government Scientist Education: Masters in Robotics Religion: Catholic upbringing. Finances: Middle-class. Present Current location: Vague, mostly in his underground bunker beneath his place of business. Currently living with: Circus Baby and several other “family” members. Pets: Nothing stays alive around him for long. Religion: Agnostic Occupation: Roboticist and arcade/pizzeria owner. Finances: Upper-class (Criminal) Family Mother: Name TBD. Deceased. Relationship with her: She died with his resentment. No sign of her since. Father: Warren Afton. Deceased? Old Man Consequences. Relationship with him: “Leave the demon to his demons.” OMC is a detached spirit, who both resents and pities what William has become. He is angry, but also blames himself to a degree, believing that his suicide worsened his already troubled son’s condition. Siblings: N/A Relationship with them: N/A Spouse: Deceased. Relationship with him/her: Killed herself upon uncovering William’s secret. Children: Three, dead and reanimated in various ways. Relationship with them: Good, strained, ??? Other important family members: Considers all of his “loyal” possessed animatronics some manner of family. Particularly close with Colton Candy. Favorites Color: Pink! Also likes purple (esp. on himself), sunshine yellow and spring green. Least favorite color: He doesn’t really dislike any color, but is a little put off by over-saturation. Music: Indie, mostly. Has developed a taste for Industrial as well.  Food: Can’t eat. Was very fond of junk food and cakes in life. Literature: Mostly educational non-fiction. Form of entertainment: Loves cartoons. Expressions: Limited. Can’t move his corpse-face much and his suit-face is very stiff. Almost always looked tired and frustrated in life. Mode of transportation: Doesn’t fit in most vehicles. Is attempting to build his own. Drove a relatively nice four-door in life. (Irresponsibly) Most prized possession: Remnant extractor, hallucination-inducing audio mind control technology, his collection of uncanny carnival memorabilia. Habits Hobbies: Arcade games, cooking, toy making, clowning. Plays a musical instrument? Guitar. Plays a sport? Nope. How he/she would spend a rainy day: Slaughtering children in the basement I guess. Spending habits: Spends mostly on investments, pretty good at making a profit. Smokes: Enjoyed a good cigar now and then in life. Drinks: Yes, mostly hard liquor and occasionally too much. Mostly in life, but occasionally after death if he can find something that works. Other drugs: Only as prescribed in life. Addicted to remnant now, which might count. What does he/she do too much of? Working, killing people. What does he/she do too little of? Bonding with others, seeing medical professionals. Extremely skilled at: Robotics, pizza, acting, manipulation, murder, torture. Extremely unskilled at: Forming genuine and healthy connections to other people. Nervous tics: Jaw-clenching, foot-tapping, occasional head jerks. Usual body posture: Upright and perhaps too still, even borderline robotic. (Literally robotic after death.) In life he found this difficult and even painful to maintain, but did it anyway. Mannerisms: Professional and charismatic, somewhat emotionally withdrawn but not unfriendly in life. Downright ominous after death, fluctuating between too-serious and too-silly unpredictably, but always a little bit threatening. Peculiarities: “Nothing behind the eyes”. Most of his behavior comes off as “acting”. Good “acting”, but it’s all just a tiny bit off. Traits Optimist or pessimist?: Pessimist-leaning. Introvert or extrovert?: Reads as an extrovert, is actually an introvert. Daredevil or cautious?: Typically cautious with chaotic outbursts of daredevil. Logical or emotional?: Typically logical with chaotic outbursts of emotional, usually selfish. Disorderly and messy or methodical and neat?: Mostly methodical and neat, but finds the occasionally mess theraputic. Prefers working or relaxing?: Would love to relax, but typically cannot without over-working due to stress and trauma. Confident or unsure of himself/herself?: Mostly confident. Uncertainty slips in now and then, and he combats it with over-compensation. Animal lover?: Unfortunately, not really. He doesn’t dislike animals, but has difficult seeing them as individuals and feeling empathy or sympathy enough to connect with them, just as with humans. Self-perception How he/she feels about himself/herself: Typically sees himself as an accomplished and brilliant scientist and/or a superior, ascended being. Occasional bouts of self loathing as a result of his failed attempts at connecting to other people. One word the character would use to describe self: Curious One paragraph description of how the character would describe self: “I’m something of an acquired taste, not suitable for most audiences, who lack the insight to understand what it is that I’ve done here and why. I’ve made great sacrifices for things so grand that most men can’t even fathom it - the bigger picture. I truly have made fantasy and fun come to life - perhaps in a nightmarish fashion, but I’ve embraced that.” What does the character consider his/her best personality trait?: His drive or intellect. What does the character consider his/her worst personality trait?: His clinical sociopathy. What does the character consider his/her best physical characteristic?: He was fairly neutral to resentful to most of it in life. His physical body caused him a lot of pain and difficulties. What does the character consider his/her worst physical characteristic?: Being dead is kind of a turn off for most people so probably that. In life, his generally ill appearance. How does the character think others perceive him/her: A monster, and not in the nice way. He’d like more respect and sympathy than he gets. What would the character most like to change about himself/herself: He’d like to be able to love and to feel loved more consistently and deeply than he’s capable of. Relationships with others Opinion of other people in general: Mostly stupid, ignorant, self-important, tiny-minded fools. Surprisingly open to having this opinion changed, and often very quickly comes to love and admire those who are willing to put in the effort to earn his affection. Does the character hide his/her true opinions and emotions from others?: Usually yes. Person character most hates: Surprisingly, he doesn’t really hate anyone. Best friend(s): Henry, Kai, Blu, Dings, WD, Draggy Love interest(s): All of the above in different ways. Person character goes to for advice: Henry Person character feels responsible for or takes care of: Circus Baby, Golden Freddy Person character feels shy or awkward around: Henry Person character openly admires: Henry Person character secretly admires: Officer Leah Mack Most important person in character’s life before story starts: Henry After story starts: Henry

[enjolrastrvrs]

ENJOLRAS TRAVERS // PUREBLOOD

HOUSE: Ravenclaw

“Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, where those of wit and learning, will always find their kind.”

( + / - ) intelligent, creative, individual, witty, accepting.

WAND: 12 1/4″ larch wood with a unicorn hair core and surprisingly swishy flexibility

LARCH WOOD; “Strong, durable and warm in colour, larch has long been valued as an attractive and powerful wand wood. Its reputation for instilling courage and confidence in the user has ensured that demand has always outstripped supply. This much sought-after wand is, however, hard to please in the matter of ideal owners, and trickier to handle than many imagine. I find that it always creates wands of hidden talents and unexpected effects, which likewise describes the master who deserves it. It is often the case that the witch or wizard who belongs to the larch wand may never realise the full extent of their considerable talents until paired with it, but that they will then make an exceptional match.” — Garrick Ollivander

UNICORN HAIR CORE; “Unicorn hair generally produces the most consistent magic, and is least subject to fluctuations and blockages. Wands with unicorn cores are generally the most difficult to turn to the Dark Arts. They are the most faithful of all wands, and usually remain strongly attached to their first owner, irrespective of whether he or she was an accomplished witch or wizard.Minor disadvantages of unicorn hair are that they do not make the most powerful wands (although the wand wood may compensate) and that they are prone to melancholy if seriously mishandled, meaning that the hair may 'die' and need replacing.” — Garrick Ollivander

12 1/4 INCHES; “Most wands will be in the range of between nine and fourteen inches. While I have sold extremely short wands (eight inches and under) and very long wands (over fifteen inches), these are exceptionally rare. In the latter case, a physical peculiarity demanded the excessive wand length. However, abnormally short wands usually select those in whose character something is lacking, rather than because they are physically undersized (many small witches and wizards are chosen by longer wands).” — Garrick Ollivander

SURPRISINGLY SWISHY FLEXIBILITY *wand is just as wavering and unpredictable as Enjolras and his flames; “Wand flexibility or rigidity denotes the degree of adaptability and willingness to change possessed by the wand-and-owner pair - although, again, this factor ought not to be considered separately from the wand wood, core and length, nor of the owner’s life experience and style of magic, all of which will combine to make the wand in question unique.” — Garrick Ollivander

PATRONUS: Ragdoll Cat

“Ragdolls are one of the sweetest cats ever. They are so cuddly and want to be with you all the time. They will follow you around the house, playing gently with your shoestrings, charming everyone with their gentle and sweet personalities. While they may not be the most protective of cats, they will fill you with joy and happiness.”

Welcome to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Enjolras Travers.

[extrology]

Get to Know Chanyeol

Light Astrology Analysis

Chanyeol has a bowl chart with all planets located towards his interactions with others

Very Outgoing person

Is lacking inside, may have a lot of  internal struggles

Saturn is his Dominant planet but it gets almost completely negated by his tightest aspect (in other posts about that) and the 2nd most dominant planet - Jupiter

Jupiter also makes him optimistic, able to see the bigger picture

Jupiter dominants are usually tall, “extra” and lucky

As Capricorn dominant always has the internal conflict between public exposure with their great need for privacy

LOVES talking about the subjects of interest (mysterious, weird, taboo things, music, animu and whatever else he likes)

loves company of intelligent, well read and fun people

Jupiter dominants tend to be a bit lazy and all over the place

with Mars Cancer he tends to play the victim in arguments

self-pitying himself

always thinking “why me?” inside

very emotional about conflicts,

takes them very poorly

long recovery period, hold grudges

usually is very sensitive about close friends'/family matters

internal anxieties

most conflicts tend to come from the past

wants security (in money, relationships, job... )

can’t deal being ignored

also doesn’t usually tell others what he wants and expects others to simply know what he wants

Scorpio mind is definitely scary, especially in the 8th house (the dark house of secrets, sex, death) and plus that tight Pluto conjunction (planet of extremes and darkness)

his Pluto hides his geniusness from everybody

so you’ll see his actual brain VERY rarely

heretic, born strategist

he notices every tiny detail

loves playing detective in his mind (and he’s Hella good at it)

such a sharp mind, fearless about going where others fear to thread

literally human surveillance camera

but not so interested in school or the traditional concept of “intelligent”

tends to romanticize death, destruction and law breaking (gangs, crime, sinful mind overall)

often has weird, “dark” thoughts about sex

can we just talk about his dirty lyrics. Even with that hardcore censorship he manages to write dirty songs

seeks the Truth and he WILL find it

masks, lies and illusions don’t work on him

a born detective A Concept: Intelligence Agent/Hacker Chanyeol

don’t try to win an argument with him

also he’s not very tactful

stubborn, will hang onto a subject until satisfied

will do all he can to avoid an uninteresting subject

can be manipulative and very secretly controlling

likes to possess the ones he cares about (he feels it’s a way to protect them)

will be tempted to use his mind for evilish goals

I can see him loving monster concept

SO this boy’s got Sagittarius sun (ego, character) and it’s made even stronger with Jupiter dominant 

he wishes to be respected and heard more than anything

but doesn’t care about what other people want

such an optimistic free spirit

loves independence and adventures

don’t suffocate him if you want a good relationship with him

faithful, if all needs met but his restlessness would probably create distance (both physically and mentally)

lucky in many aspects of life

needs constant action

wants to learn everything he can (especially with that sharp mind) (no wonder he knows how to play so many instruments)

loves to travel and to make friends while he’s at it (am I the only one being reminded of all those insta posts with different people every time)

his acceptance of everybody and optimism simply draw people in

although easy going as a fire sign has a quick and fierce temper

while usually accepting and positive

if you manage to make this boy angry

run.

absolutely doesn’t sugar coat anything or tell white lies

honest, sometimes a little too honest

might come off as rude and insensitive because of it

sagittariuses usually swear a lot

likes people who join him in athletic as well as intellectual activities

an excellent organizer and usually successful at any project he takes on

lives for himself

but if you can keep up and follow along he’ll show you an exciting and cheerful side of life ~ 

With Cap Moon emotional matters is just not his strong suit

actually frightened by his emotions and is not sure how do deal with them

needs to feel useful and productive

his own worst critic and can be really hard on himself

painfully aware of his weaknesses and tries very hard to compensate for them

wants to be respected in others eyes

finds it difficult to relate to people who have different values

witty and self-focused

wants to have realistic goals

loyal friend but awful at texting back

he doesn’t shit talk unless that person in REALLY REALLY shit

most cap moons are weebs or furries (if they say they’re not - they’re lying)

likes to get their way

pretty down to earth, knows his goals, looks at them realistically

he’s funnier than you

deal with it

hides sensitivity with jokes

hates dealing with emotions

but there’s always a point where they just pile up and explode (esp if includes close friends/ family Mars Cancer)

Bonus

venus cap makes him a very traditional boyfriend

neptune cap makes his dreams very realistic

the two aspects above explain why Chanyeol idealized Jongin from the very first days.

he’s attracted to both of these signs

as his ideal lover from dreams and fantasies (neptune) is capricorn and Jongin is Capricorn king if I’ve ever seen one

with Jupiter(abundance) quintile (talent) Mars (sex, manliness) this guy is DEFFINETLY packing down there and is especially talented in bed

I give you my word (btw, quintiles are actuary rare to have in a table, so to have one in this aspect... oh boy)

if it ends up wrong, I promise I’ll quit astrology

[Masterlist]

[okfemmes]

5 reasons why you choose bad guys (psychologist answers)

So attracted to bad boys, rude, hooligan, rebels? But you want to find a calm, good person, but it just doesn't work out. Why it happens? Is this something wrong with you? Or with men?

Why do great women choose men who mistreat them? Smart, successful, loving people give 110% to their partner, but he, in turn, is not worthy of one of these qualities. Why is it that women love bad guys? There is some basic psychology at play here, and the more you learn about the inner workings of the mind, the more correct choices you will make. We've compiled a list of 5 reasons why you actually choose the bad guys.

1. Physiology

Science, and evolutionary biology in particular, explains in part why bad guys can be so attractive. Research shows that women are more attracted to men in the middle of their menstrual cycle , when they are most fertile. Men with very “brutal” physical traits may have higher quality genes, so this may be attractive to women on an unconscious evolutionary level.

2. The bad guys relieve us of the pressure of the good girls

Girls have a number of challenging personality traits, such as rebelliousness. The gender social constructor shapes a woman as an agreeable, learning-able, calm person. As we grow older, we begin to form our own character traits that run counter to the "generally accepted norm." If a girl's inner life is inexpressible, she perceives the relationship with the “bad guy” as a way to indirectly express her inner rebel. In fact, we are attracted to those qualities of other people that we ourselves would like to have.

3. Emotional addiction and "forbidden"The bad guy can be a welcome change in our daily routine. Especially if a woman is used to a monotonous scenario, these men may seem funny, interesting, new. For this reason, a woman turns a blind eye to obvious shortcomings, such as alcohol, drug addiction, convictions, criminal activity. Bad guys can seem like a taboo, which further increases their attractiveness. First, he provides adventure, rough sex, emotions, and then you yourself do not understand how this led to fights and domestic violence.

4. Search for protectionWomen who feel beleaguered by threats often fall in love with tough guys with their disregard for social norms and their willingness to quickly convert frustration into hostility, threats, and aggression. They want someone tough enough to stand up to the world and fight back when needed. Of course, there will be no one to act as a human shield if this aggression turns back and gets in your way.

5. Desire to show feelings of careIt is a type of emotional attachment usually formed in adulthood due to childhood problems. Perhaps this is a problem of overprotection or, on the contrary, a lack of attention from the parents. By taking care of and saving a disabled man in a certain way, a woman compensates for the feeling of emotional attachment and strong intimacy. She considers it her duty, trying to discern a romantic in a brutal and aggressive man. Such women, in principle, romanticize the image of an asocial partner.

How to meet good

Stop romanticizing antisociality. Think about what flaws might lie behind brutality and adventure. Think about whether such a man can be a normal family man, a good father.

Don't hold on to toxic relationships . Try to assess them soberly.

Do not be afraid to take the first step towards the man you like.

Pay attention to the family of a potential chosen one - it must be complete, prosperous.

Do not stop believing that your "good" man will definitely meet you.

To read more like this visit: https://www.okfemmes.com/

[stephicness]

A Question For You... (Tag Game)

cSo for this one, I was tagged by @misaki-kurenai, @sahara-rose, and @fangsoflightening. So I’d figured I’d just put these questions all into one post. c: Spare you the post spam. Here we go!

I’mma put my tags and questions up above the read more, that why I won’t bore you with a massively long post. :D Instead, I’ll give you really descriptive questions!

1) You’re walking home one day, and you suddenly stumble upon a man dressed in over-the-top clothing and a giant hat. He offers you the chance to have one wish granted, but at the expense of your loved-one perishing in the process. Would you still take the wish? What would you wish for?

2) You’re going to be featured as a character within a novel! However, the catch is that you have to write your character’s introduction to the story. How would you write your introduction and description?

3) Given the circumstances involving a successful project being completed and your work/school being collateral damage, you’re given compensation for your time and efforts: $1,000,000! What do you decide to do with said money?

4) You’re minding your own business and drinking your beverage as you work when suddenly someone comes up and kisses you. When they pull away, your heart skips a beat because you notice just how beautiful they look. What do they look like?

5) You’re trapped in a plain white room with nothing more than a box of materials of various kinds. Your captors give you a goal to work towards: fill up one of the walls with anything you like by any means you desire to. You can draw, paint, write, and more. How do you go about filling up that wall?

6) Of all of the books this library can contain, you’re only allowed to enter this library and pick up three books of different genres to forever keep as your own. Because once you claim your books to read, the library will disappear. What are the three books that you wish to read from this library?

7) You’re chosen for a higher purpose, they claimed. Your talents and accomplishments will make you the leader of a new revolution of ideas, and it all starts with the talent that you have. What is the talent and accomplishment that will lead you to start this revolution?

8) The world is slowly coming to ruins and it seems that the only goal in this new and twisted reality is to survive. Survival comes at a top priority, but you have to keep your loved ones safe as well. What will be your plan for survival when you must help others as well?

9) An artist found you as the muse to their work, and so they ask to paint you as their subject. Once the painting is complete, they reveal it to you and claim that they captured the perfect aesthetic for you. What is the aesthetic that was captured and how was it captured?

10) It seems as if the life that you’ve wished to live in was only but a dream. A dream that must soon come to an end as you return back to the reality you reside in. What was the dream that you were trapped in?

11) ‘All hail your new ruler!’ The cheers from the crowd below overwhelm you as you step out and admire the kingdom before you. A world where you possess an unimaginable magical power that only you and your linage has carried. What is the power that you possess?

And let’s tag... @itshaejinju, @birdsandivory, @lhugbereth, @chimeracuddles, @mistress-light, @destiny-islanders, @fulgurians, @lizibabbles, @blossattic, @fabulanova-ffxv, @chaoticmimzy

*thumbs up* Have fun with the overly detailed questions! Feel free to read the questions asked of me below~ :D

fangsoflightening’s Questions

1: If you could pick one fictional character to hang out with, who would it be?

Probably Prompto, actually. c: I’m a bit boring in my routines and all, so having someone as energetic as Prompto as a buddy would be pretty cool. Adventures whenever possible, perhaps!

2: Favorite tv show or anime?

I watch obscene amounts of Law and Order: SVU. To the point where I’ve watched all of the seasons 3-4 times... *coughs*

3: Is there a particular trope you really love?

Tsundereeeeeeeeees

4: Favorite movie?

Scott Pilgrim vs the World

5: If you had the chance to do anything you wanted without limits, what would it be?

Is infinite pho and sushi an option...?

6: Favorite kind of weather?

Super warm partly cloudy days

7: You can have one superpower. What do you choose?

Mental to physical recreation. That way, if I have a really cool idea for a drawing or design, I can instantly draw it without it looking derpy.

8: Favorite food?

I really like soups and sushi. Like, alot of soup and sushi.

9: What is a pet peeve of yours?

Being talked over.

10: Do you have a favorite saying?

“People are people, and people are dumb.”

11: When it comes to shipping, is there a particular dynamic you especially love?

I like ships that have a dynamic where they aren’t really in love at first, or they aren’t together for a long time, and then suddenly there’s some dramatic revelation of event that brings them together in a cute and genuine way. Kinda like a one-sided affection that ultimately leads to the other being all ‘I don’t like affection, but your affection is nice.’ Cute sappy stuff that gives me diabetes, please. :D

sahara-rose’s Questions

Favourite colour and why?

Purple. It’s always been a color associated with regality and power, but it’s also a color that can be associated with moodiness and darkness. Kinda like behind every strength is a weakness. It’s pretty neat~

Do you hate someone that you have a thought about doing something bad to them? if so why?

I resent alot of people in my life, but I don’t really ‘hate’ them. I forsake them alot and say things like ‘I hope you eat a stale bagel,’ but I’d rather let karma take-over for me.

Have any plans? like going on a vacation etc

I’m moving to the Roseville and Sacramento area around April and May...?

Have you ever confess to your crush?

I have, yes. Never turns out too well in the end though~

Happiest moment in your life?

Every day where I’m not wishing to kill myself and suffer is a happy moment. c: Yay for self-damnation!

What about a person that attracts you?

I find myself most attracted to a person’s intellect. If they’re smart and have a good and open-minded perspectives on things, then they’re usually someone I grow fond of. That, and roman noses for some reason.

If you have one chance to marry your favourite character. who would it be and why?

I mean... Ravus is my favorite character, but that’s because I like the moody bishies tsunderes. c:

First game you ever play?

The first game I played solo and beat was the Sims Bustin’ Out. Yeah, I was a completionist with that game. It was terrible...

Do you have bad habits that you want to get rid of?

I pull out my hair whenever I have anxiety, so it’d be nice breaking that habit.

Favourite animal? Why?

Owls, because they’re majestic angry birds. Tsundere birds probably.

Be honest, would you rather go back to the past or see your future? why?

Probably the past, so I could benefit my future/present with minor things. Of course, butterfly effect politics, but I’d more rather help shape the present than see the future to come. Only leads to more stress and anxiety.

misaki-kurenai’s Questions

1. What’s your current song obsession? 

I always listen to Jump and Shake by Timeflies on the way to work. :D

2. How are you doing in life so far? Struggling? Me too. 

Kind of in a bind for money, and I’ve been lacking in creativity and motivation, but yeah. Beyond that, I guess it’s going okay? Perhaps moving will help shake things up!

3. Do you quote lines from Vine sometimes?

Oh god... A bit more often that I’d wanna admit.

4. If so, which ones? :3

I say ‘watermelone’ alot, because I really like watermelon. I also quote that one vine where they’re singing ‘Suck a dick!’ That one resonates with me alot.

5. What time do you usually go to bed? 

Somewhere between 1 AM and 3 AM.

6. Do you or have you done commissions before?

I do/have done them, yes! I’m a lazy artist though, but I really wanna take more commissions again! I just gotta resolve what’s going on with my desktop. e.e;;

7. Are all of your social media accounts under the same/similar username?

Typically, yes. Stephicness is my default in most cases, like on Xbox, Youtube, and Tumblr. UdonDude/UdonTitan are my PC game names. And gawsh-adaarn-it/gawshadaarnit was my ex-tumblr name and used for Spotify and stuff like that.

8. Who are your top 5 celebrity crushes?

Um... I don’t really have any celebrity crushes, to be honest... I scream alot whenever I see Benedict Cumberbatch though...?

9. How much makeup do you wear when you go out (in general)? 

I actually just started wearing makeup for things, but I only really ever use it when I’m going out to do fancy things. So little to none, because I only ever really use foundation to make myself look like tired.

10. What’s your hidden talent? :D

Uh... I used to be really good at Jeopardy and trivia games...? I can also twist my arms around and Grudge crawl after people. :D

[jainsnaturebrain-blog]

Jain’s Wand

Yew

Yew wands are among the rarer kinds, and their ideal matches are likewise unusual, and occasionally notorious. The wand of yew is reputed to endow its possessor with the power of life and death, which might, of course, be said of all wands; and yet yew retains a particularly dark and fearsome reputation in the spheres of duelling and all curses. However, it is untrue to say (as those unlearned in wandlore often do) that those who use yew wands are more likely to be attracted to the Dark Arts than another. The witch or wizard best suited to a yew wand might equally prove a fierce protector of others. Wands hewn from these most long-lived trees have been found in the possession of heroes quite as often as of villains. Where wizards have been buried with wands of yew, the wand generally sprouts into a tree guarding the dead owner’s grave. What is certain, in my experience, is that the yew wand never chooses either a mediocre or a timid owner.

Unicorn

Unicorn hair generally produces the most consistent magic, and is least subject to fluctuations and blockages. Wands with unicorn cores are generally the most difficult to turn to the Dark Arts. They are the most faithful of all wands, and usually remain strongly attached to their first owner, irrespective of whether he or she was an accomplished witch or wizard. Minor disadvantages of unicorn hair are that they do not make the most powerful wands (although the wand wood may compensate) and that they are prone to melancholy if seriously mishandled, meaning that the hair may 'die' and need replacing.

11 ¼" in length

Most wands will be in the range of between nine and fourteen inches. While I have sold extremely short wands (eight inches and under) and very long wands (over fifteen inches), these are exceptionally rare. In the latter case, a physical peculiarity demanded the excessive wand length. However, abnormally short wands usually select those in whose character something is lacking, rather than because they are physically undersized (many small witches and wizards are chosen by longer wands).

Unbending flexibility

Wand flexibility or rigidity denotes the degree of adaptability and willingness to change possessed by the wand-and-owner pair - although, again, this factor ought not to be considered separately from the wand wood, core and length, nor of the owner’s life experience and style of magic, all of which will combine to make the wand in question unique.

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A basic consideration, always to be kept firmly in mind, is that private housing development for a private market is first, last, and all the time a business operation, conducted for profit, and the merit of decisions is always judged by their effect upon profit. A great many factors affect the final profit from a housing development.

First come the price paid for the land and the cost and availability of credit when needed. Then various skills come into play: skill in minimizing tax liabilities, taking advantage of numerous and often complicated federal programs, and selling the final product. Each of these factors is highly important. A bad decision on any one of them may wholly offset great effectiveness in handling all the others. But it is the interrelationship of these factors which offers the greatest challenge to the managerial skill of the developer. If you are a property developer, always have an experienced Ogden Utah real estate lawyer working for you. In a great many housing developments, the margin between considerable loss and relatively high profits may be rather narrow. A little extra delay in construction or in sales may lead to losses, while better management or more luck which reduces time involved may lead to high profits. A somewhat higher vacancy rate in apartments than anticipated may lead to losses, while just a little higher occupancy rate may lead to fairly high profits. Abrams, in discussing the rebuilding of older parts of cities, cites some dramatic examples of how this works; the same general relationships exist for new housing in suburbs.4 In part, the explanation lies in the heavy use of credit and the low equity capital of many developers.

Early in the process of planning a housing development, every builder must make some kind of an estimate of the demand for housing — in general or nationally, for his city, and for the type he wants to build. This estimate may be highly sophisticated or very simple, even impressionistic. It may be based upon various general factors, such as rate of household formation, the state of the national money market, or other general considerations. Or it may be highly localized and personal — a simple judgment that ten or twenty houses of a certain type and price range can be sold in this location over the next year or so. Since the developer is really concerned with the state of the housing market for his houses when the latter are ready, he must forecast ahead, often by one to two years, when he is considering undertaking development of a specific tract of land. Obviously, additional uncertainties enter when the future rather than the present demand is concerned. In order to carry out a housing development, a developer must first have a tract of land. He may have in mind his ideal tract, ideal as to size, location, physical characteristics, and price; and he may also have in mind the degree of divergence from the ideal which he will accept if he has to. His decision-making unit is the subdivision of a size for his operation, but this may vary considerably in acreage. In any case, the kind of houses, their price, and their market must be related, in his judgment, to the character of the site. It would be wasteful to put low-priced houses on an expensive tract in a high-class neighborhood.

Probably it would be financially disastrous to put expensive house into a lower-middle-class neighborhood. However definitely the developer has an ideal tract in mind, in practice he may very well have to choose from among a very few tracts, none of which conforms to his ideal. The managerial function consists here, as it does so often in every field, in deciding among alternatives, none of which is wholly satisfactory — a selection of the least-worst, or tolerable, as well as of the best. In the case of sites for building, the developer has a further decision to make: how far ahead to plan and to acquire land for planned building, or how much to take advantage of present opportunities to buy available tracts for future use. There are advantages in having land readily available as needed, but there are also costs in holding land.

Once a tract has been acquired, the developer has to make some decisions on street and lot layout. A simple and obvious way is to employ straight streets run on cardinal directions and linked in a grid with similar streets in adjacent areas, and to lay out lots of width and depth suited to the size and cost of the houses contemplated. Many suburbs have been so developed, and there is much to be said in favor of such simple layout, in spite of its lack of variety. The curving street, however, has become the symbol of even the modestly ambitious suburban development. It does provide vistas which are likely to be much more attractive than those available to motorist or pedestrian in the grid layout, and houses may have somewhat different directional orientations. A newer subdivision form, with many advantages, is clustering of houses so as to provide larger open space for general use. If well planned, a clustered development will reduce the land area in streets, perhaps yield a few more buildable lots, and yet produce more usable open space than the typical rectangular subdivision. Topography may well dictate a subdivision plan other than the grid.

The developer constructs a house or apartment — a physical structure — for an expected clientele; but, more importantly, he provides something more nearly approaching a total housing package. People who will buy his houses or rent his apartments are concerned with the nature of the community, with the kind and quality of public facilities of every type, with general location, with transportation to the central city and elsewhere, and with other factors, none of which are under the primary control of the developer. He may choose his site with these factors in mind, but as a general rule he must adapt to them, rather than altering them, although he may be able to influence public action with respect to some of them. Considerations of architectural style, variety, and standardization influence the prospective occupant. He is also interested in the household appliances and conveniences installed in the house.

Lastly, the developer must decide whether to sell or to rent the housing unit he builds. Virtually all suburban construction of single-family homes has been for sale; apartments are usually rented but may be sold under a condominium arrangement. Even when the property is rented to the occupant, the developer may sell it to a person or firm who is more interested in investment and more capable of property management than he is. An experienced Ogden Utah real estate lawyer can help a property developer in many ways starting from ensuring that the tract of land been acquired can be developed till the developed property being sold by preparing the sale documents.

The cities and the counties have had the greatest impact upon the direction and rate of suburban growth, in ways that have greatly influenced if not determined which specific tracts would be used, for what, and when. When the boundaries of a city are so far-flung that suburban-type development can take place within its legal boundaries, then it is the city which exercises power over residential growth. More commonly, the suburban growth takes place in unincorporated areas outside of any city (in the legal sense), and the legal powers and actions of the county as a unit of government are determinative.

A very large number of local governments exercise various powers with respect to planning, zoning, subdivision regulation, housing codes, and other aspects of urban and suburban development. These functions may be exercised by part-time boards of citizens, often unpaid, as well as by official units of government. Cities and counties have the power to make land use and other plans; develop zoning regulations; promulgate control ordinances over subdivision procedures and methods; develop and enforce building codes; provide a range of public services, which may include water, electricity, and gas, either directly or by power companies under governmental regulations, sewerage, schools, roads and streets, parks, and a host of other services required or desirable for modern urban living.14 These legal powers are exercised with greatly varying diligence and skill, and for different policy ends.

Cities and counties have the power to make land use and other plans; develop zoning regulations; promulgate control ordinances over subdivision procedures and methods; develop and enforce building codes; provide a range of public services, which may include water, electricity, and gas, either directly or by power companies under governmental regulations, sewerage, schools, roads and streets, parks, and a host of other services required or desirable for modern urban living. These legal powers are exercised with greatly varying diligence and skill, and for different policy ends. Cities and counties exercise their planning, zoning, subdivision, building code, housing code, and similar activities under the broad concept of police power — the power to regulate individual activity in the interest of the safety, health, morals, and general well-being of the whole population. Courts have generally upheld exercise of such powers when the purposes to be served were reasonably clear, the means to the end reasonably defined and relevant, and the procedures in accordance with due process. At the same time, courts have been unwilling to deprive property owners of all rights to use of their land in the name of such general public purposes.

In addition to the police power, local government has several other broad types of legal powers which are or can be used in the suburbanization process. The power of eminent domain enables government to take private property, for a fair compensation, for a public purpose. The definition of a reasonable public purpose has surely broadened over the past several decades — urban renewal and public housing are accepted today, when a generation or more ago they were not — and probably will broaden further in the decades ahead. Government also has the legal power to impose taxes, subject to limitations of fair treatment to all taxpayers, and in some jurisdictions subject to some maximum limit. While taxes as instruments of social policy — i.e., to encourage one kind of land use and to discourage another have generally been illegal, or not upheld by courts, or politically unacceptable, most taxes have some side effects in terms of private actions induced or restrained. Taxes in relation to services rendered, such as sewerage charges to repay costs of new sewer lines, have generally been used and upheld by the courts.

If eminent domain is to be deployed to acquire property, several things need to occur. First, the condemnor is going to have to adopt a resolution that declares a public use and its intent to condemn or take specific properties. At this hearing, several things must occur. First, owners must be given legal notice that their properties are going to be subject to a taking. This is more than perhaps a general notice. Owners must receive specific notice served upon them. At the hearing, the condemnor will state its reasons for the condemnation, gather information that will justify the public use, and perhaps even declare the public use. Members of the public, including the owners, will then be given the opportunity to state their reasons for or against the decision to proceed with the condemnation. At the conclusion of these hearings, the government must finally declare that a public use exists to take certain properties and it must adopt a resolution, ordinance, or law declaring its use and the intent to take the properties via eminent domain. If this happens, again new efforts will be undertaken to negotiate a sale with the owner, but if unsuccessful, the owners will receive notice that their properties are being condemned and taken by a city or other government. This notice is served personally upon the owners.

If your land or property is affected by zoning or the government is planning to take away your property, consult an experienced Ogden Utah real estate lawyer.

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A basic consideration, always to be kept firmly in mind, is that private housing development for a private market is first, last, and all the time a business operation, conducted for profit, and the merit of decisions is always judged by their effect upon profit. A great many factors affect the final profit from a housing development.

First come the price paid for the land and the cost and availability of credit when needed. Then various skills come into play: skill in minimizing tax liabilities, taking advantage of numerous and often complicated federal programs, and selling the final product. Each of these factors is highly important. A bad decision on any one of them may wholly offset great effectiveness in handling all the others. But it is the interrelationship of these factors which offers the greatest challenge to the managerial skill of the developer. If you are a property developer, always have an experienced Ogden Utah real estate lawyer working for you. In a great many housing developments, the margin between considerable loss and relatively high profits may be rather narrow. A little extra delay in construction or in sales may lead to losses, while better management or more luck which reduces time involved may lead to high profits. A somewhat higher vacancy rate in apartments than anticipated may lead to losses, while just a little higher occupancy rate may lead to fairly high profits. Abrams, in discussing the rebuilding of older parts of cities, cites some dramatic examples of how this works; the same general relationships exist for new housing in suburbs.4 In part, the explanation lies in the heavy use of credit and the low equity capital of many developers.

Early in the process of planning a housing development, every builder must make some kind of an estimate of the demand for housing — in general or nationally, for his city, and for the type he wants to build. This estimate may be highly sophisticated or very simple, even impressionistic. It may be based upon various general factors, such as rate of household formation, the state of the national money market, or other general considerations. Or it may be highly localized and personal — a simple judgment that ten or twenty houses of a certain type and price range can be sold in this location over the next year or so. Since the developer is really concerned with the state of the housing market for his houses when the latter are ready, he must forecast ahead, often by one to two years, when he is considering undertaking development of a specific tract of land. Obviously, additional uncertainties enter when the future rather than the present demand is concerned. In order to carry out a housing development, a developer must first have a tract of land. He may have in mind his ideal tract, ideal as to size, location, physical characteristics, and price; and he may also have in mind the degree of divergence from the ideal which he will accept if he has to. His decision-making unit is the subdivision of a size for his operation, but this may vary considerably in acreage. In any case, the kind of houses, their price, and their market must be related, in his judgment, to the character of the site. It would be wasteful to put low-priced houses on an expensive tract in a high-class neighborhood.

Probably it would be financially disastrous to put expensive house into a lower-middle-class neighborhood. However definitely the developer has an ideal tract in mind, in practice he may very well have to choose from among a very few tracts, none of which conforms to his ideal. The managerial function consists here, as it does so often in every field, in deciding among alternatives, none of which is wholly satisfactory — a selection of the least-worst, or tolerable, as well as of the best. In the case of sites for building, the developer has a further decision to make: how far ahead to plan and to acquire land for planned building, or how much to take advantage of present opportunities to buy available tracts for future use. There are advantages in having land readily available as needed, but there are also costs in holding land.

Once a tract has been acquired, the developer has to make some decisions on street and lot layout. A simple and obvious way is to employ straight streets run on cardinal directions and linked in a grid with similar streets in adjacent areas, and to lay out lots of width and depth suited to the size and cost of the houses contemplated. Many suburbs have been so developed, and there is much to be said in favor of such simple layout, in spite of its lack of variety. The curving street, however, has become the symbol of even the modestly ambitious suburban development. It does provide vistas which are likely to be much more attractive than those available to motorist or pedestrian in the grid layout, and houses may have somewhat different directional orientations. A newer subdivision form, with many advantages, is clustering of houses so as to provide larger open space for general use. If well planned, a clustered development will reduce the land area in streets, perhaps yield a few more buildable lots, and yet produce more usable open space than the typical rectangular subdivision. Topography may well dictate a subdivision plan other than the grid.

The developer constructs a house or apartment — a physical structure — for an expected clientele; but, more importantly, he provides something more nearly approaching a total housing package. People who will buy his houses or rent his apartments are concerned with the nature of the community, with the kind and quality of public facilities of every type, with general location, with transportation to the central city and elsewhere, and with other factors, none of which are under the primary control of the developer. He may choose his site with these factors in mind, but as a general rule he must adapt to them, rather than altering them, although he may be able to influence public action with respect to some of them. Considerations of architectural style, variety, and standardization influence the prospective occupant. He is also interested in the household appliances and conveniences installed in the house.

Lastly, the developer must decide whether to sell or to rent the housing unit he builds. Virtually all suburban construction of single-family homes has been for sale; apartments are usually rented but may be sold under a condominium arrangement. Even when the property is rented to the occupant, the developer may sell it to a person or firm who is more interested in investment and more capable of property management than he is. An experienced Ogden Utah real estate lawyer can help a property developer in many ways starting from ensuring that the tract of land been acquired can be developed till the developed property being sold by preparing the sale documents.

The cities and the counties have had the greatest impact upon the direction and rate of suburban growth, in ways that have greatly influenced if not determined which specific tracts would be used, for what, and when. When the boundaries of a city are so far-flung that suburban-type development can take place within its legal boundaries, then it is the city which exercises power over residential growth. More commonly, the suburban growth takes place in unincorporated areas outside of any city (in the legal sense), and the legal powers and actions of the county as a unit of government are determinative.

A very large number of local governments exercise various powers with respect to planning, zoning, subdivision regulation, housing codes, and other aspects of urban and suburban development. These functions may be exercised by part-time boards of citizens, often unpaid, as well as by official units of government. Cities and counties have the power to make land use and other plans; develop zoning regulations; promulgate control ordinances over subdivision procedures and methods; develop and enforce building codes; provide a range of public services, which may include water, electricity, and gas, either directly or by power companies under governmental regulations, sewerage, schools, roads and streets, parks, and a host of other services required or desirable for modern urban living.14 These legal powers are exercised with greatly varying diligence and skill, and for different policy ends.

Cities and counties have the power to make land use and other plans; develop zoning regulations; promulgate control ordinances over subdivision procedures and methods; develop and enforce building codes; provide a range of public services, which may include water, electricity, and gas, either directly or by power companies under governmental regulations, sewerage, schools, roads and streets, parks, and a host of other services required or desirable for modern urban living. These legal powers are exercised with greatly varying diligence and skill, and for different policy ends. Cities and counties exercise their planning, zoning, subdivision, building code, housing code, and similar activities under the broad concept of police power — the power to regulate individual activity in the interest of the safety, health, morals, and general well-being of the whole population. Courts have generally upheld exercise of such powers when the purposes to be served were reasonably clear, the means to the end reasonably defined and relevant, and the procedures in accordance with due process. At the same time, courts have been unwilling to deprive property owners of all rights to use of their land in the name of such general public purposes.

In addition to the police power, local government has several other broad types of legal powers which are or can be used in the suburbanization process. The power of eminent domain enables government to take private property, for a fair compensation, for a public purpose. The definition of a reasonable public purpose has surely broadened over the past several decades — urban renewal and public housing are accepted today, when a generation or more ago they were not — and probably will broaden further in the decades ahead. Government also has the legal power to impose taxes, subject to limitations of fair treatment to all taxpayers, and in some jurisdictions subject to some maximum limit. While taxes as instruments of social policy — i.e., to encourage one kind of land use and to discourage another have generally been illegal, or not upheld by courts, or politically unacceptable, most taxes have some side effects in terms of private actions induced or restrained. Taxes in relation to services rendered, such as sewerage charges to repay costs of new sewer lines, have generally been used and upheld by the courts.

If eminent domain is to be deployed to acquire property, several things need to occur. First, the condemnor is going to have to adopt a resolution that declares a public use and its intent to condemn or take specific properties. At this hearing, several things must occur. First, owners must be given legal notice that their properties are going to be subject to a taking. This is more than perhaps a general notice. Owners must receive specific notice served upon them. At the hearing, the condemnor will state its reasons for the condemnation, gather information that will justify the public use, and perhaps even declare the public use. Members of the public, including the owners, will then be given the opportunity to state their reasons for or against the decision to proceed with the condemnation. At the conclusion of these hearings, the government must finally declare that a public use exists to take certain properties and it must adopt a resolution, ordinance, or law declaring its use and the intent to take the properties via eminent domain. If this happens, again new efforts will be undertaken to negotiate a sale with the owner, but if unsuccessful, the owners will receive notice that their properties are being condemned and taken by a city or other government. This notice is served personally upon the owners.

If your land or property is affected by zoning or the government is planning to take away your property, consult an experienced Ogden Utah real estate lawyer.

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When you need legal help with a quiet title action, partition action, fixing any real estate issue in Utah, please call Ascent Law LLC for your free consultation (801) 676-5506. We want to help you.

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A basic consideration, always to be kept firmly in mind, is that private housing development for a private market is first, last, and all the time a business operation, conducted for profit, and the merit of decisions is always judged by their effect upon profit. A great many factors affect the final profit from a housing development.

First come the price paid for the land and the cost and availability of credit when needed. Then various skills come into play: skill in minimizing tax liabilities, taking advantage of numerous and often complicated federal programs, and selling the final product. Each of these factors is highly important. A bad decision on any one of them may wholly offset great effectiveness in handling all the others. But it is the interrelationship of these factors which offers the greatest challenge to the managerial skill of the developer. If you are a property developer, always have an experienced Ogden Utah real estate lawyer working for you. In a great many housing developments, the margin between considerable loss and relatively high profits may be rather narrow. A little extra delay in construction or in sales may lead to losses, while better management or more luck which reduces time involved may lead to high profits. A somewhat higher vacancy rate in apartments than anticipated may lead to losses, while just a little higher occupancy rate may lead to fairly high profits. Abrams, in discussing the rebuilding of older parts of cities, cites some dramatic examples of how this works; the same general relationships exist for new housing in suburbs.4 In part, the explanation lies in the heavy use of credit and the low equity capital of many developers.

Early in the process of planning a housing development, every builder must make some kind of an estimate of the demand for housing — in general or nationally, for his city, and for the type he wants to build. This estimate may be highly sophisticated or very simple, even impressionistic. It may be based upon various general factors, such as rate of household formation, the state of the national money market, or other general considerations. Or it may be highly localized and personal — a simple judgment that ten or twenty houses of a certain type and price range can be sold in this location over the next year or so. Since the developer is really concerned with the state of the housing market for his houses when the latter are ready, he must forecast ahead, often by one to two years, when he is considering undertaking development of a specific tract of land. Obviously, additional uncertainties enter when the future rather than the present demand is concerned. In order to carry out a housing development, a developer must first have a tract of land. He may have in mind his ideal tract, ideal as to size, location, physical characteristics, and price; and he may also have in mind the degree of divergence from the ideal which he will accept if he has to. His decision-making unit is the subdivision of a size for his operation, but this may vary considerably in acreage. In any case, the kind of houses, their price, and their market must be related, in his judgment, to the character of the site. It would be wasteful to put low-priced houses on an expensive tract in a high-class neighborhood.

Probably it would be financially disastrous to put expensive house into a lower-middle-class neighborhood. However definitely the developer has an ideal tract in mind, in practice he may very well have to choose from among a very few tracts, none of which conforms to his ideal. The managerial function consists here, as it does so often in every field, in deciding among alternatives, none of which is wholly satisfactory — a selection of the least-worst, or tolerable, as well as of the best. In the case of sites for building, the developer has a further decision to make: how far ahead to plan and to acquire land for planned building, or how much to take advantage of present opportunities to buy available tracts for future use. There are advantages in having land readily available as needed, but there are also costs in holding land.

Once a tract has been acquired, the developer has to make some decisions on street and lot layout. A simple and obvious way is to employ straight streets run on cardinal directions and linked in a grid with similar streets in adjacent areas, and to lay out lots of width and depth suited to the size and cost of the houses contemplated. Many suburbs have been so developed, and there is much to be said in favor of such simple layout, in spite of its lack of variety. The curving street, however, has become the symbol of even the modestly ambitious suburban development. It does provide vistas which are likely to be much more attractive than those available to motorist or pedestrian in the grid layout, and houses may have somewhat different directional orientations. A newer subdivision form, with many advantages, is clustering of houses so as to provide larger open space for general use. If well planned, a clustered development will reduce the land area in streets, perhaps yield a few more buildable lots, and yet produce more usable open space than the typical rectangular subdivision. Topography may well dictate a subdivision plan other than the grid.

The developer constructs a house or apartment — a physical structure — for an expected clientele; but, more importantly, he provides something more nearly approaching a total housing package. People who will buy his houses or rent his apartments are concerned with the nature of the community, with the kind and quality of public facilities of every type, with general location, with transportation to the central city and elsewhere, and with other factors, none of which are under the primary control of the developer. He may choose his site with these factors in mind, but as a general rule he must adapt to them, rather than altering them, although he may be able to influence public action with respect to some of them. Considerations of architectural style, variety, and standardization influence the prospective occupant. He is also interested in the household appliances and conveniences installed in the house.

Lastly, the developer must decide whether to sell or to rent the housing unit he builds. Virtually all suburban construction of single-family homes has been for sale; apartments are usually rented but may be sold under a condominium arrangement. Even when the property is rented to the occupant, the developer may sell it to a person or firm who is more interested in investment and more capable of property management than he is. An experienced Ogden Utah real estate lawyer can help a property developer in many ways starting from ensuring that the tract of land been acquired can be developed till the developed property being sold by preparing the sale documents.

The cities and the counties have had the greatest impact upon the direction and rate of suburban growth, in ways that have greatly influenced if not determined which specific tracts would be used, for what, and when. When the boundaries of a city are so far-flung that suburban-type development can take place within its legal boundaries, then it is the city which exercises power over residential growth. More commonly, the suburban growth takes place in unincorporated areas outside of any city (in the legal sense), and the legal powers and actions of the county as a unit of government are determinative.

A very large number of local governments exercise various powers with respect to planning, zoning, subdivision regulation, housing codes, and other aspects of urban and suburban development. These functions may be exercised by part-time boards of citizens, often unpaid, as well as by official units of government. Cities and counties have the power to make land use and other plans; develop zoning regulations; promulgate control ordinances over subdivision procedures and methods; develop and enforce building codes; provide a range of public services, which may include water, electricity, and gas, either directly or by power companies under governmental regulations, sewerage, schools, roads and streets, parks, and a host of other services required or desirable for modern urban living.14 These legal powers are exercised with greatly varying diligence and skill, and for different policy ends.

Cities and counties have the power to make land use and other plans; develop zoning regulations; promulgate control ordinances over subdivision procedures and methods; develop and enforce building codes; provide a range of public services, which may include water, electricity, and gas, either directly or by power companies under governmental regulations, sewerage, schools, roads and streets, parks, and a host of other services required or desirable for modern urban living. These legal powers are exercised with greatly varying diligence and skill, and for different policy ends. Cities and counties exercise their planning, zoning, subdivision, building code, housing code, and similar activities under the broad concept of police power — the power to regulate individual activity in the interest of the safety, health, morals, and general well-being of the whole population. Courts have generally upheld exercise of such powers when the purposes to be served were reasonably clear, the means to the end reasonably defined and relevant, and the procedures in accordance with due process. At the same time, courts have been unwilling to deprive property owners of all rights to use of their land in the name of such general public purposes.

In addition to the police power, local government has several other broad types of legal powers which are or can be used in the suburbanization process. The power of eminent domain enables government to take private property, for a fair compensation, for a public purpose. The definition of a reasonable public purpose has surely broadened over the past several decades — urban renewal and public housing are accepted today, when a generation or more ago they were not — and probably will broaden further in the decades ahead. Government also has the legal power to impose taxes, subject to limitations of fair treatment to all taxpayers, and in some jurisdictions subject to some maximum limit. While taxes as instruments of social policy — i.e., to encourage one kind of land use and to discourage another have generally been illegal, or not upheld by courts, or politically unacceptable, most taxes have some side effects in terms of private actions induced or restrained. Taxes in relation to services rendered, such as sewerage charges to repay costs of new sewer lines, have generally been used and upheld by the courts.

If eminent domain is to be deployed to acquire property, several things need to occur. First, the condemnor is going to have to adopt a resolution that declares a public use and its intent to condemn or take specific properties. At this hearing, several things must occur. First, owners must be given legal notice that their properties are going to be subject to a taking. This is more than perhaps a general notice. Owners must receive specific notice served upon them. At the hearing, the condemnor will state its reasons for the condemnation, gather information that will justify the public use, and perhaps even declare the public use. Members of the public, including the owners, will then be given the opportunity to state their reasons for or against the decision to proceed with the condemnation. At the conclusion of these hearings, the government must finally declare that a public use exists to take certain properties and it must adopt a resolution, ordinance, or law declaring its use and the intent to take the properties via eminent domain. If this happens, again new efforts will be undertaken to negotiate a sale with the owner, but if unsuccessful, the owners will receive notice that their properties are being condemned and taken by a city or other government. This notice is served personally upon the owners.

If your land or property is affected by zoning or the government is planning to take away your property, consult an experienced Ogden Utah real estate lawyer.

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A basic consideration, always to be kept firmly in mind, is that private housing development for a private market is first, last, and all the time a business operation, conducted for profit, and the merit of decisions is always judged by their effect upon profit. A great many factors affect the final profit from a housing development.

First come the price paid for the land and the cost and availability of credit when needed. Then various skills come into play: skill in minimizing tax liabilities, taking advantage of numerous and often complicated federal programs, and selling the final product. Each of these factors is highly important. A bad decision on any one of them may wholly offset great effectiveness in handling all the others. But it is the interrelationship of these factors which offers the greatest challenge to the managerial skill of the developer. If you are a property developer, always have an experienced Ogden Utah real estate lawyer working for you. In a great many housing developments, the margin between considerable loss and relatively high profits may be rather narrow. A little extra delay in construction or in sales may lead to losses, while better management or more luck which reduces time involved may lead to high profits. A somewhat higher vacancy rate in apartments than anticipated may lead to losses, while just a little higher occupancy rate may lead to fairly high profits. Abrams, in discussing the rebuilding of older parts of cities, cites some dramatic examples of how this works; the same general relationships exist for new housing in suburbs.4 In part, the explanation lies in the heavy use of credit and the low equity capital of many developers.

Early in the process of planning a housing development, every builder must make some kind of an estimate of the demand for housing — in general or nationally, for his city, and for the type he wants to build. This estimate may be highly sophisticated or very simple, even impressionistic. It may be based upon various general factors, such as rate of household formation, the state of the national money market, or other general considerations. Or it may be highly localized and personal — a simple judgment that ten or twenty houses of a certain type and price range can be sold in this location over the next year or so. Since the developer is really concerned with the state of the housing market for his houses when the latter are ready, he must forecast ahead, often by one to two years, when he is considering undertaking development of a specific tract of land. Obviously, additional uncertainties enter when the future rather than the present demand is concerned. In order to carry out a housing development, a developer must first have a tract of land. He may have in mind his ideal tract, ideal as to size, location, physical characteristics, and price; and he may also have in mind the degree of divergence from the ideal which he will accept if he has to. His decision-making unit is the subdivision of a size for his operation, but this may vary considerably in acreage. In any case, the kind of houses, their price, and their market must be related, in his judgment, to the character of the site. It would be wasteful to put low-priced houses on an expensive tract in a high-class neighborhood.

Probably it would be financially disastrous to put expensive house into a lower-middle-class neighborhood. However definitely the developer has an ideal tract in mind, in practice he may very well have to choose from among a very few tracts, none of which conforms to his ideal. The managerial function consists here, as it does so often in every field, in deciding among alternatives, none of which is wholly satisfactory — a selection of the least-worst, or tolerable, as well as of the best. In the case of sites for building, the developer has a further decision to make: how far ahead to plan and to acquire land for planned building, or how much to take advantage of present opportunities to buy available tracts for future use. There are advantages in having land readily available as needed, but there are also costs in holding land.

Once a tract has been acquired, the developer has to make some decisions on street and lot layout. A simple and obvious way is to employ straight streets run on cardinal directions and linked in a grid with similar streets in adjacent areas, and to lay out lots of width and depth suited to the size and cost of the houses contemplated. Many suburbs have been so developed, and there is much to be said in favor of such simple layout, in spite of its lack of variety. The curving street, however, has become the symbol of even the modestly ambitious suburban development. It does provide vistas which are likely to be much more attractive than those available to motorist or pedestrian in the grid layout, and houses may have somewhat different directional orientations. A newer subdivision form, with many advantages, is clustering of houses so as to provide larger open space for general use. If well planned, a clustered development will reduce the land area in streets, perhaps yield a few more buildable lots, and yet produce more usable open space than the typical rectangular subdivision. Topography may well dictate a subdivision plan other than the grid.

The developer constructs a house or apartment — a physical structure — for an expected clientele; but, more importantly, he provides something more nearly approaching a total housing package. People who will buy his houses or rent his apartments are concerned with the nature of the community, with the kind and quality of public facilities of every type, with general location, with transportation to the central city and elsewhere, and with other factors, none of which are under the primary control of the developer. He may choose his site with these factors in mind, but as a general rule he must adapt to them, rather than altering them, although he may be able to influence public action with respect to some of them. Considerations of architectural style, variety, and standardization influence the prospective occupant. He is also interested in the household appliances and conveniences installed in the house.

Lastly, the developer must decide whether to sell or to rent the housing unit he builds. Virtually all suburban construction of single-family homes has been for sale; apartments are usually rented but may be sold under a condominium arrangement. Even when the property is rented to the occupant, the developer may sell it to a person or firm who is more interested in investment and more capable of property management than he is. An experienced Ogden Utah real estate lawyer can help a property developer in many ways starting from ensuring that the tract of land been acquired can be developed till the developed property being sold by preparing the sale documents.

The cities and the counties have had the greatest impact upon the direction and rate of suburban growth, in ways that have greatly influenced if not determined which specific tracts would be used, for what, and when. When the boundaries of a city are so far-flung that suburban-type development can take place within its legal boundaries, then it is the city which exercises power over residential growth. More commonly, the suburban growth takes place in unincorporated areas outside of any city (in the legal sense), and the legal powers and actions of the county as a unit of government are determinative.

A very large number of local governments exercise various powers with respect to planning, zoning, subdivision regulation, housing codes, and other aspects of urban and suburban development. These functions may be exercised by part-time boards of citizens, often unpaid, as well as by official units of government. Cities and counties have the power to make land use and other plans; develop zoning regulations; promulgate control ordinances over subdivision procedures and methods; develop and enforce building codes; provide a range of public services, which may include water, electricity, and gas, either directly or by power companies under governmental regulations, sewerage, schools, roads and streets, parks, and a host of other services required or desirable for modern urban living.14 These legal powers are exercised with greatly varying diligence and skill, and for different policy ends.

Cities and counties have the power to make land use and other plans; develop zoning regulations; promulgate control ordinances over subdivision procedures and methods; develop and enforce building codes; provide a range of public services, which may include water, electricity, and gas, either directly or by power companies under governmental regulations, sewerage, schools, roads and streets, parks, and a host of other services required or desirable for modern urban living. These legal powers are exercised with greatly varying diligence and skill, and for different policy ends. Cities and counties exercise their planning, zoning, subdivision, building code, housing code, and similar activities under the broad concept of police power — the power to regulate individual activity in the interest of the safety, health, morals, and general well-being of the whole population. Courts have generally upheld exercise of such powers when the purposes to be served were reasonably clear, the means to the end reasonably defined and relevant, and the procedures in accordance with due process. At the same time, courts have been unwilling to deprive property owners of all rights to use of their land in the name of such general public purposes.

In addition to the police power, local government has several other broad types of legal powers which are or can be used in the suburbanization process. The power of eminent domain enables government to take private property, for a fair compensation, for a public purpose. The definition of a reasonable public purpose has surely broadened over the past several decades — urban renewal and public housing are accepted today, when a generation or more ago they were not — and probably will broaden further in the decades ahead. Government also has the legal power to impose taxes, subject to limitations of fair treatment to all taxpayers, and in some jurisdictions subject to some maximum limit. While taxes as instruments of social policy — i.e., to encourage one kind of land use and to discourage another have generally been illegal, or not upheld by courts, or politically unacceptable, most taxes have some side effects in terms of private actions induced or restrained. Taxes in relation to services rendered, such as sewerage charges to repay costs of new sewer lines, have generally been used and upheld by the courts.

If eminent domain is to be deployed to acquire property, several things need to occur. First, the condemnor is going to have to adopt a resolution that declares a public use and its intent to condemn or take specific properties. At this hearing, several things must occur. First, owners must be given legal notice that their properties are going to be subject to a taking. This is more than perhaps a general notice. Owners must receive specific notice served upon them. At the hearing, the condemnor will state its reasons for the condemnation, gather information that will justify the public use, and perhaps even declare the public use. Members of the public, including the owners, will then be given the opportunity to state their reasons for or against the decision to proceed with the condemnation. At the conclusion of these hearings, the government must finally declare that a public use exists to take certain properties and it must adopt a resolution, ordinance, or law declaring its use and the intent to take the properties via eminent domain. If this happens, again new efforts will be undertaken to negotiate a sale with the owner, but if unsuccessful, the owners will receive notice that their properties are being condemned and taken by a city or other government. This notice is served personally upon the owners.

If your land or property is affected by zoning or the government is planning to take away your property, consult an experienced Ogden Utah real estate lawyer.

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When you need legal help with a quiet title action, partition action, fixing any real estate issue in Utah, please call Ascent Law LLC for your free consultation (801) 676-5506. We want to help you.

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A basic consideration, always to be kept firmly in mind, is that private housing development for a private market is first, last, and all the time a business operation, conducted for profit, and the merit of decisions is always judged by their effect upon profit. A great many factors affect the final profit from a housing development.

First come the price paid for the land and the cost and availability of credit when needed. Then various skills come into play: skill in minimizing tax liabilities, taking advantage of numerous and often complicated federal programs, and selling the final product. Each of these factors is highly important. A bad decision on any one of them may wholly offset great effectiveness in handling all the others. But it is the interrelationship of these factors which offers the greatest challenge to the managerial skill of the developer. If you are a property developer, always have an experienced Ogden Utah real estate lawyer working for you. In a great many housing developments, the margin between considerable loss and relatively high profits may be rather narrow. A little extra delay in construction or in sales may lead to losses, while better management or more luck which reduces time involved may lead to high profits. A somewhat higher vacancy rate in apartments than anticipated may lead to losses, while just a little higher occupancy rate may lead to fairly high profits. Abrams, in discussing the rebuilding of older parts of cities, cites some dramatic examples of how this works; the same general relationships exist for new housing in suburbs.4 In part, the explanation lies in the heavy use of credit and the low equity capital of many developers.

Early in the process of planning a housing development, every builder must make some kind of an estimate of the demand for housing — in general or nationally, for his city, and for the type he wants to build. This estimate may be highly sophisticated or very simple, even impressionistic. It may be based upon various general factors, such as rate of household formation, the state of the national money market, or other general considerations. Or it may be highly localized and personal — a simple judgment that ten or twenty houses of a certain type and price range can be sold in this location over the next year or so. Since the developer is really concerned with the state of the housing market for his houses when the latter are ready, he must forecast ahead, often by one to two years, when he is considering undertaking development of a specific tract of land. Obviously, additional uncertainties enter when the future rather than the present demand is concerned. In order to carry out a housing development, a developer must first have a tract of land. He may have in mind his ideal tract, ideal as to size, location, physical characteristics, and price; and he may also have in mind the degree of divergence from the ideal which he will accept if he has to. His decision-making unit is the subdivision of a size for his operation, but this may vary considerably in acreage. In any case, the kind of houses, their price, and their market must be related, in his judgment, to the character of the site. It would be wasteful to put low-priced houses on an expensive tract in a high-class neighborhood.

Probably it would be financially disastrous to put expensive house into a lower-middle-class neighborhood. However definitely the developer has an ideal tract in mind, in practice he may very well have to choose from among a very few tracts, none of which conforms to his ideal. The managerial function consists here, as it does so often in every field, in deciding among alternatives, none of which is wholly satisfactory — a selection of the least-worst, or tolerable, as well as of the best. In the case of sites for building, the developer has a further decision to make: how far ahead to plan and to acquire land for planned building, or how much to take advantage of present opportunities to buy available tracts for future use. There are advantages in having land readily available as needed, but there are also costs in holding land.

Once a tract has been acquired, the developer has to make some decisions on street and lot layout. A simple and obvious way is to employ straight streets run on cardinal directions and linked in a grid with similar streets in adjacent areas, and to lay out lots of width and depth suited to the size and cost of the houses contemplated. Many suburbs have been so developed, and there is much to be said in favor of such simple layout, in spite of its lack of variety. The curving street, however, has become the symbol of even the modestly ambitious suburban development. It does provide vistas which are likely to be much more attractive than those available to motorist or pedestrian in the grid layout, and houses may have somewhat different directional orientations. A newer subdivision form, with many advantages, is clustering of houses so as to provide larger open space for general use. If well planned, a clustered development will reduce the land area in streets, perhaps yield a few more buildable lots, and yet produce more usable open space than the typical rectangular subdivision. Topography may well dictate a subdivision plan other than the grid.

The developer constructs a house or apartment — a physical structure — for an expected clientele; but, more importantly, he provides something more nearly approaching a total housing package. People who will buy his houses or rent his apartments are concerned with the nature of the community, with the kind and quality of public facilities of every type, with general location, with transportation to the central city and elsewhere, and with other factors, none of which are under the primary control of the developer. He may choose his site with these factors in mind, but as a general rule he must adapt to them, rather than altering them, although he may be able to influence public action with respect to some of them. Considerations of architectural style, variety, and standardization influence the prospective occupant. He is also interested in the household appliances and conveniences installed in the house.

Lastly, the developer must decide whether to sell or to rent the housing unit he builds. Virtually all suburban construction of single-family homes has been for sale; apartments are usually rented but may be sold under a condominium arrangement. Even when the property is rented to the occupant, the developer may sell it to a person or firm who is more interested in investment and more capable of property management than he is. An experienced Ogden Utah real estate lawyer can help a property developer in many ways starting from ensuring that the tract of land been acquired can be developed till the developed property being sold by preparing the sale documents.

The cities and the counties have had the greatest impact upon the direction and rate of suburban growth, in ways that have greatly influenced if not determined which specific tracts would be used, for what, and when. When the boundaries of a city are so far-flung that suburban-type development can take place within its legal boundaries, then it is the city which exercises power over residential growth. More commonly, the suburban growth takes place in unincorporated areas outside of any city (in the legal sense), and the legal powers and actions of the county as a unit of government are determinative.

A very large number of local governments exercise various powers with respect to planning, zoning, subdivision regulation, housing codes, and other aspects of urban and suburban development. These functions may be exercised by part-time boards of citizens, often unpaid, as well as by official units of government. Cities and counties have the power to make land use and other plans; develop zoning regulations; promulgate control ordinances over subdivision procedures and methods; develop and enforce building codes; provide a range of public services, which may include water, electricity, and gas, either directly or by power companies under governmental regulations, sewerage, schools, roads and streets, parks, and a host of other services required or desirable for modern urban living.14 These legal powers are exercised with greatly varying diligence and skill, and for different policy ends.

Cities and counties have the power to make land use and other plans; develop zoning regulations; promulgate control ordinances over subdivision procedures and methods; develop and enforce building codes; provide a range of public services, which may include water, electricity, and gas, either directly or by power companies under governmental regulations, sewerage, schools, roads and streets, parks, and a host of other services required or desirable for modern urban living. These legal powers are exercised with greatly varying diligence and skill, and for different policy ends. Cities and counties exercise their planning, zoning, subdivision, building code, housing code, and similar activities under the broad concept of police power — the power to regulate individual activity in the interest of the safety, health, morals, and general well-being of the whole population. Courts have generally upheld exercise of such powers when the purposes to be served were reasonably clear, the means to the end reasonably defined and relevant, and the procedures in accordance with due process. At the same time, courts have been unwilling to deprive property owners of all rights to use of their land in the name of such general public purposes.

In addition to the police power, local government has several other broad types of legal powers which are or can be used in the suburbanization process. The power of eminent domain enables government to take private property, for a fair compensation, for a public purpose. The definition of a reasonable public purpose has surely broadened over the past several decades — urban renewal and public housing are accepted today, when a generation or more ago they were not — and probably will broaden further in the decades ahead. Government also has the legal power to impose taxes, subject to limitations of fair treatment to all taxpayers, and in some jurisdictions subject to some maximum limit. While taxes as instruments of social policy — i.e., to encourage one kind of land use and to discourage another have generally been illegal, or not upheld by courts, or politically unacceptable, most taxes have some side effects in terms of private actions induced or restrained. Taxes in relation to services rendered, such as sewerage charges to repay costs of new sewer lines, have generally been used and upheld by the courts.

If eminent domain is to be deployed to acquire property, several things need to occur. First, the condemnor is going to have to adopt a resolution that declares a public use and its intent to condemn or take specific properties. At this hearing, several things must occur. First, owners must be given legal notice that their properties are going to be subject to a taking. This is more than perhaps a general notice. Owners must receive specific notice served upon them. At the hearing, the condemnor will state its reasons for the condemnation, gather information that will justify the public use, and perhaps even declare the public use. Members of the public, including the owners, will then be given the opportunity to state their reasons for or against the decision to proceed with the condemnation. At the conclusion of these hearings, the government must finally declare that a public use exists to take certain properties and it must adopt a resolution, ordinance, or law declaring its use and the intent to take the properties via eminent domain. If this happens, again new efforts will be undertaken to negotiate a sale with the owner, but if unsuccessful, the owners will receive notice that their properties are being condemned and taken by a city or other government. This notice is served personally upon the owners.

If your land or property is affected by zoning or the government is planning to take away your property, consult an experienced Ogden Utah real estate lawyer.

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When you need legal help with a quiet title action, partition action, fixing any real estate issue in Utah, please call Ascent Law LLC for your free consultation (801) 676-5506. We want to help you.

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A basic consideration, always to be kept firmly in mind, is that private housing development for a private market is first, last, and all the time a business operation, conducted for profit, and the merit of decisions is always judged by their effect upon profit. A great many factors affect the final profit from a housing development.

First come the price paid for the land and the cost and availability of credit when needed. Then various skills come into play: skill in minimizing tax liabilities, taking advantage of numerous and often complicated federal programs, and selling the final product. Each of these factors is highly important. A bad decision on any one of them may wholly offset great effectiveness in handling all the others. But it is the interrelationship of these factors which offers the greatest challenge to the managerial skill of the developer. If you are a property developer, always have an experienced Ogden Utah real estate lawyer working for you. In a great many housing developments, the margin between considerable loss and relatively high profits may be rather narrow. A little extra delay in construction or in sales may lead to losses, while better management or more luck which reduces time involved may lead to high profits. A somewhat higher vacancy rate in apartments than anticipated may lead to losses, while just a little higher occupancy rate may lead to fairly high profits. Abrams, in discussing the rebuilding of older parts of cities, cites some dramatic examples of how this works; the same general relationships exist for new housing in suburbs.4 In part, the explanation lies in the heavy use of credit and the low equity capital of many developers.

Early in the process of planning a housing development, every builder must make some kind of an estimate of the demand for housing — in general or nationally, for his city, and for the type he wants to build. This estimate may be highly sophisticated or very simple, even impressionistic. It may be based upon various general factors, such as rate of household formation, the state of the national money market, or other general considerations. Or it may be highly localized and personal — a simple judgment that ten or twenty houses of a certain type and price range can be sold in this location over the next year or so. Since the developer is really concerned with the state of the housing market for his houses when the latter are ready, he must forecast ahead, often by one to two years, when he is considering undertaking development of a specific tract of land. Obviously, additional uncertainties enter when the future rather than the present demand is concerned. In order to carry out a housing development, a developer must first have a tract of land. He may have in mind his ideal tract, ideal as to size, location, physical characteristics, and price; and he may also have in mind the degree of divergence from the ideal which he will accept if he has to. His decision-making unit is the subdivision of a size for his operation, but this may vary considerably in acreage. In any case, the kind of houses, their price, and their market must be related, in his judgment, to the character of the site. It would be wasteful to put low-priced houses on an expensive tract in a high-class neighborhood.

Probably it would be financially disastrous to put expensive house into a lower-middle-class neighborhood. However definitely the developer has an ideal tract in mind, in practice he may very well have to choose from among a very few tracts, none of which conforms to his ideal. The managerial function consists here, as it does so often in every field, in deciding among alternatives, none of which is wholly satisfactory — a selection of the least-worst, or tolerable, as well as of the best. In the case of sites for building, the developer has a further decision to make: how far ahead to plan and to acquire land for planned building, or how much to take advantage of present opportunities to buy available tracts for future use. There are advantages in having land readily available as needed, but there are also costs in holding land.

Once a tract has been acquired, the developer has to make some decisions on street and lot layout. A simple and obvious way is to employ straight streets run on cardinal directions and linked in a grid with similar streets in adjacent areas, and to lay out lots of width and depth suited to the size and cost of the houses contemplated. Many suburbs have been so developed, and there is much to be said in favor of such simple layout, in spite of its lack of variety. The curving street, however, has become the symbol of even the modestly ambitious suburban development. It does provide vistas which are likely to be much more attractive than those available to motorist or pedestrian in the grid layout, and houses may have somewhat different directional orientations. A newer subdivision form, with many advantages, is clustering of houses so as to provide larger open space for general use. If well planned, a clustered development will reduce the land area in streets, perhaps yield a few more buildable lots, and yet produce more usable open space than the typical rectangular subdivision. Topography may well dictate a subdivision plan other than the grid.

The developer constructs a house or apartment — a physical structure — for an expected clientele; but, more importantly, he provides something more nearly approaching a total housing package. People who will buy his houses or rent his apartments are concerned with the nature of the community, with the kind and quality of public facilities of every type, with general location, with transportation to the central city and elsewhere, and with other factors, none of which are under the primary control of the developer. He may choose his site with these factors in mind, but as a general rule he must adapt to them, rather than altering them, although he may be able to influence public action with respect to some of them. Considerations of architectural style, variety, and standardization influence the prospective occupant. He is also interested in the household appliances and conveniences installed in the house.

Lastly, the developer must decide whether to sell or to rent the housing unit he builds. Virtually all suburban construction of single-family homes has been for sale; apartments are usually rented but may be sold under a condominium arrangement. Even when the property is rented to the occupant, the developer may sell it to a person or firm who is more interested in investment and more capable of property management than he is. An experienced Ogden Utah real estate lawyer can help a property developer in many ways starting from ensuring that the tract of land been acquired can be developed till the developed property being sold by preparing the sale documents.

The cities and the counties have had the greatest impact upon the direction and rate of suburban growth, in ways that have greatly influenced if not determined which specific tracts would be used, for what, and when. When the boundaries of a city are so far-flung that suburban-type development can take place within its legal boundaries, then it is the city which exercises power over residential growth. More commonly, the suburban growth takes place in unincorporated areas outside of any city (in the legal sense), and the legal powers and actions of the county as a unit of government are determinative.

A very large number of local governments exercise various powers with respect to planning, zoning, subdivision regulation, housing codes, and other aspects of urban and suburban development. These functions may be exercised by part-time boards of citizens, often unpaid, as well as by official units of government. Cities and counties have the power to make land use and other plans; develop zoning regulations; promulgate control ordinances over subdivision procedures and methods; develop and enforce building codes; provide a range of public services, which may include water, electricity, and gas, either directly or by power companies under governmental regulations, sewerage, schools, roads and streets, parks, and a host of other services required or desirable for modern urban living.14 These legal powers are exercised with greatly varying diligence and skill, and for different policy ends.

Cities and counties have the power to make land use and other plans; develop zoning regulations; promulgate control ordinances over subdivision procedures and methods; develop and enforce building codes; provide a range of public services, which may include water, electricity, and gas, either directly or by power companies under governmental regulations, sewerage, schools, roads and streets, parks, and a host of other services required or desirable for modern urban living. These legal powers are exercised with greatly varying diligence and skill, and for different policy ends. Cities and counties exercise their planning, zoning, subdivision, building code, housing code, and similar activities under the broad concept of police power — the power to regulate individual activity in the interest of the safety, health, morals, and general well-being of the whole population. Courts have generally upheld exercise of such powers when the purposes to be served were reasonably clear, the means to the end reasonably defined and relevant, and the procedures in accordance with due process. At the same time, courts have been unwilling to deprive property owners of all rights to use of their land in the name of such general public purposes.

In addition to the police power, local government has several other broad types of legal powers which are or can be used in the suburbanization process. The power of eminent domain enables government to take private property, for a fair compensation, for a public purpose. The definition of a reasonable public purpose has surely broadened over the past several decades — urban renewal and public housing are accepted today, when a generation or more ago they were not — and probably will broaden further in the decades ahead. Government also has the legal power to impose taxes, subject to limitations of fair treatment to all taxpayers, and in some jurisdictions subject to some maximum limit. While taxes as instruments of social policy — i.e., to encourage one kind of land use and to discourage another have generally been illegal, or not upheld by courts, or politically unacceptable, most taxes have some side effects in terms of private actions induced or restrained. Taxes in relation to services rendered, such as sewerage charges to repay costs of new sewer lines, have generally been used and upheld by the courts.

If eminent domain is to be deployed to acquire property, several things need to occur. First, the condemnor is going to have to adopt a resolution that declares a public use and its intent to condemn or take specific properties. At this hearing, several things must occur. First, owners must be given legal notice that their properties are going to be subject to a taking. This is more than perhaps a general notice. Owners must receive specific notice served upon them. At the hearing, the condemnor will state its reasons for the condemnation, gather information that will justify the public use, and perhaps even declare the public use. Members of the public, including the owners, will then be given the opportunity to state their reasons for or against the decision to proceed with the condemnation. At the conclusion of these hearings, the government must finally declare that a public use exists to take certain properties and it must adopt a resolution, ordinance, or law declaring its use and the intent to take the properties via eminent domain. If this happens, again new efforts will be undertaken to negotiate a sale with the owner, but if unsuccessful, the owners will receive notice that their properties are being condemned and taken by a city or other government. This notice is served personally upon the owners.

If your land or property is affected by zoning or the government is planning to take away your property, consult an experienced Ogden Utah real estate lawyer.

Ogden Utah Real Estate Attorney Free Consultation

When you need legal help with a quiet title action, partition action, fixing any real estate issue in Utah, please call Ascent Law LLC for your free consultation (801) 676-5506. We want to help you.

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