Very good answer! That is why we also bought a corner lot. It is a matter of preference.

Beautifully and succinctly put!!!

A corner lot beautifully accentuates your home. As you drive up to your house you get to see the side as well as the front. If you have a Begonia or Gardenia your living room windows look out on corner lot landscaping as well as gorgeous sky views instead of a close, dark view of your neighbor's house. You get a feeling of spaciousness when looking out of your home. Another real plus is the lanai view, especially if your lanai is offset from your back neighbor. You get this great sky view from the lanai as well as a great view, with a lot of distance, of the attractive, front side of your backstreet neighbor's houses and landscaping.

You make me wish I had gone for the corner lot!!! Oh well, too late.

We have a huge corner lot,LOVE IT !!!!!!

Corner lot? With frontage along two streets, twice as many dogs use my yard as a rest stop. So please.

What is the cost and maintenance of that damn Zoysia grass? Is it a problem or similar to the cost and maintenance of my damn northern grass?

Corner lots are wonderful , if they weren't $20,000+ everybody would want one. Just like the beautiful golf course lot that fit our home nicely for only $185,000...

Well stated!

I have some of the best of both worlds - my lot is a corner but not a corner. It's on the outside bend of a street. 12K sq feet. Gave me plenty of room to put a decent size (50 X 30) birdcage with pool. No street noise since there is only 25 homes and we're in the middle. From the pool we have privacy since it only looks out upon the fronts of the homes across the street and golf behind that. Since the lot was 'only' 24K extra we feel it was a bargain. So not all corners are corners:)

Good Luck!

I totally LOVE my corner lot. More land and good grass and further away from the street. A little more money on maintaining it, but I LOVE it and that's what counts. I love my grass, I just don't smoke it.

I'm not sure I understand how a corner lot is more private. It seems like you are more exposed. Perhaps it involves what type of house you have and abut to. Our lot has neighbors on both sides. On one side the side of our house faces the side that the neighbor has frosted windows for their bathroom, and no other windows, so we have no interaction from neighbors on that side and they cannot see into our home. If we were on a corner, we would be looking out onto the street from that side and people would be walking and driving by looking into our house. On the other side, our house has just the bathroom/frosted windows, so we really don't see their house. I feel our house is very private in that sense. I do imagine a corner lot allows more light in on one side, which would be nice, but we put in solar tubes to compensate and are happy with the result.

Corner lot has only one lanai behind. Inside lot has ten lanais behind it. I prefer seeing people walking by 100 feet away, rather than seeing and hearing groups of people out on all their lanais. Everyone has their preference. Some prefer being closed in on all sides, others need more space and prefer a corner lot. To each his own. Probably the key advantage of an inside lot is that it costs $30,000 less to purchase and it also costs less to maintain. To the budget conscious, it is a no brainer, go for the inside lot.

Sometimes, a corner lot is one of only a few viable options depending on what you want to do with the home you're building or what plans you have for after you move in.

Bill :)

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We bought a corner lot on a cul de sac toward the back end of section 214 one street before the golf course. It is perfect for us, we love the open view from both the house and lanai, it gives us a feeling of openess, and it is not that much more to irrigate. The house looks better on the more open expansive corner, and the cul de sac and the end of the neighborhood limits traffic. We cannot hear any cars going by because it is so far away from the side of our home. We do not regret it at all.

I guess it depends on the lanai's you have behind you. We have an interior lot where the lanai's behind us have all been glassed in, and the owners have done extensive landscaping, so we don't see or hear people except rarely. However, I understand the feeling of spaciousness of a corner lot which would certainly be a plus.