that didn't take long.

I woke up this morning to the sound of heavy equipment outside. The freshly de-shingled house down the street had an excavator in the driveway.

When we got home from work, the house was gone.

This one never had a "for sale" sign or anything; I'm not sure if a builder approached the owners directly, or if the owners themselves are building a new house. There are a number of people in the neighborhood who are about to tear their own houses down. Most started out planning to add on a second floor to their existing house, but it turned out that the cost was barely any different than putting up a big builder model from scratch. And, as our neighbors said, the second way you get an entirely new house.