Yes, you can get much more house in many parts of the country for less but not where I currently live - in SEATTLE!!
Plus - I have NO desire to live in the middle of nowhere or on a farm - I'm an URBANITE. Plus even if you had this built in a different part of the country where prices are cheaper and you paid for the plans and hired someone to build it I'm sure you could get it for far cheaper then the quoted $100-$200 per sq ft. Also thanks for all your responses but as I said in my earlier post I am really just looking for someone to say "Yes I would do this if I can" not - oh look at this site or these things or go look at prices in this city.... not that discussion about this isn't good but I wasn't looking for that kind of thing in this thread. On Apr 7, 12:11 pm, 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... > > 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
