[Boomer]

Ryan Homes has been in business since 1948.

If you are from an area of the country where a lot of bi-levels were built in the 1970s, that could have been Ryan Homes

in the early 70s, the first of the boomers were entering the housing market. The brick ranches built in the 50s and 60s needed a big footprint, a big basement and a long roof.

Then came the bi-levels with a design that could get the needed rooms and the garage all in under a small roof and built on a small foundation on small subdivision lots.

In the 70s, Ryan built for the first home market. I don't know if Ryan got into any of the McMansion subdivisions of the 80s and 90s -- when boomers could afford bigger houses and the tax law was in effect that made cap gains on real estate taxable unless reinvested in a bigger house. (That law changed in the late 90s and many middle class people benefited from being able to keep real estate profit when downsizing from bigger homes.)

And I think somewhere along the line, Ryan did a lot of those 4 bedrooms, 2 and a half baths, brick on the bottom, siding on the top, two-stories when boomers started having families.

I laughed when I saw Ryan Homes was moving in next door to TV and with condos with first floor living. Looks to me like Ryan is following the boomers like they have through all these years of finding a need and filling it.

(They should have done that first floor living thing when they were building condos in the 70s. But that cost more to do and nobody seemed to think the boomers might get old someday.)

Rock on......

Boomer