Posted on 03/12/2018 8:41:16 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Boy! do I know that one!
There is a little problem: land is expensive, frequently land drives the price, not the cost of building a house.
Land, zoning requirements, and building codes. Physically, houses are not expensive.
It is all the legal requirements and the cost of the land that make them expensive.
This technique reduces the physical cost a little, but why would you put a $4,000 house on a $40,000 lot?
Double the size 650+ 650 in two day. Two story high.
‘The homeless do the same thing with empty cardboard containers.’
Laugh Out Loud!!!!! They are recycling.
Our minimum size dropped to 260-and I’m still a few feet shy, I believe. The main pleasures are indoor plumbing and heat.
I’d love to have one off theses! Might be kind of cold in Norther Michigan.. but I imagine the concrete, once heated, would be like adobe.
Bkmk concrete house
Put a good concrete roof on it and bury it in a hillside and it would be just fine.
About 300 bucks a year to heat it and about as much to cool it in the summer.
Unless you have a big family or lots of toys, how big a home do you need?
Around 600 sq is plenty big for a tiny home. There’s less upkeep involved and you can enjoy the home more.
And not being burdened with a lifetime mortgage is a major attraction to most people. The home would come with a free and clear title.
A conventional home is a money pit, even taking the tax deduction for it into account.
Makes more sense to either rent or go tiny.
Do they include plumbing and electric? Windows?
I want one for my backyard for a place to escape to.
Thinking of buying a nice wooden shed for that purpose, maybe put a deck on the front in the sun..
I love it.
A poor man’s Eichler Home!
Thanks for history lesson
So they’re still radically low-balling readers with fake prices in those ads pretending to be news. And even the most free states are full of unfinished lots in evil HOAs, prohibitive zoning ordinances and other hindrances.
I could see four of those spaced about 16 feet apart in a rectangle with connecting screened porches or sunrooms and a courtyard in the middle being nice. Public spaces in one, living room, dining room, kitchen. Master bedroom with large bath and study in another, additional bedrooms in the third module and a “casita” in the fourth, for an inlaw apartment, office area or whatever. 2,600 sq. ft not counting sunrooms if any. Mostly glass to the inside, capitalize on any views to the outside with large window also, but not heavy on the glazing to the outside otherwise, just enough for egress windows if necessary. Maybe a pool in the middle, although I don’t know how you’d service it if in the future there are any structural issues, etc. with the pool, there would be no way to get a vehicle in an enclosed courtyard like that. Drainage of the courtyard if in a rainy climate would have to be carefully considered, there would need to be drainage running under the house.
To only have to spend $44,000.00 on a new house maybe? If that's the going price for a lot in a given local then it's the going price. This X number of times the land cost for the house I suspect was a "rule" created by builders and realtors, kind of like the "rule" for how much to spend on an engagement ring was created by jewelers.
I like Eichlers but I like Cliff May houses better. They were contemporaries and worked somewhat similarly but May seems less industrial, no flat roofs. He was basically the progenitor of the California ranch house, long and low with deep eaves and L or U shaped with lots of glazing to the inside of the form for light.
The LeTourneau company was setting down molded concrete structures from a massive wheeled machine decades ago.
Going by their commercial, they are planning on building these in sh*tholes.
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