Yes. I would do this if I can. ;) We've been thinking about how to move into our backyard and rent out the house. ;)
On 4/10/09, myrddinbach <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > > -- Sent from my mobile device --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Website: http://saturdayhouse.org/ Post: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
