On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Robert Eickmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > Tumbleweed houses aren't that cheap... > > Looking at the website they are running about 36k-50k per house. > > Back in the midwest that is about right for a small house in certain > parts of the country. (You know the kind with a bedroom or two and a > bathroom). > > For example my family bought a 28 acre farm with a house and two out > buildings and a corn crib for $90k. > > I almost bought a wonderful two bedroom lake cottage that was fully > winterized with 30' of lake front for $120k. > > The problem is location, location, location. That was an twenty > minutes from a traffic signal, hour from a small city and and hour > and half from a bad airport that could at least get you a connecting > flight to civilization about twice a day. > > And to address Anders thought that you can build a community in > detroit if you buy enough of the land.... it won't work. To actually > form a community and not just have a bunch of young people without > children (because the second you even suggest to a mother about > putting their young child into the Detroit public school system, they > will rip you to pieces). I could tell you some serious horror stories > about Michigan schools...
If only I could have claimed to make it up http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090313/LIFESTYLE/903130306 ~ Anders > > And if you were to actually build some nice houses and form a > community inside of the city of Detroit, the outside community will > tear you to pieces at every chance they can. Heck a local art > community (they had I think 120 people working on it) built a really > cool public art structure in a park last year with in three weeks it > was torched.... > > -Rob > > > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Patrick Haller > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 09:39:05PM -0700, Ryan Kabir wrote: >>> This thread made my day. The tumbleweed houses have me VERY excited. I >>> could do >>> a shipping container as well. How difficult do you think it would be to get >>> my >>> container loaded onto a ship *with me in it* ? >>> >>> mwahahhahaha >> >> It'd be cool to use the social impetus to find cheep housing to build a >> better community. i.e. if you think you'll be in one place for more than >> 5 years, getting a sub-5% mortgage on a condo with other like-minded >> people in the near units could work out well. >> >> Counter-cyclical investing = the goodness. ;) >> >> >> Patrick >> >> > >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Website: http://saturdayhouse.org/ Post: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
