This House Costs Just $20,000—But It’s Nicer Than Yours

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3056129/this-house-costs-just-20000-but-its-nicer-than-yours?cid=ps002ros&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=newsfeed&utm_term=changegeneration&utm_campaign=ps002ros ^

[reaganaut]

Excuse me? What do you mean by that? I think you may have me confused with Reaganaut1 (different freeper) based on your tagline.

[Defiant]

Sorry, easy mistake.

[gunsequalfreedom]

The development and plan check fees will cost more than the $20,000 cost of the house.

I’m reminded of the scene in Back to School where Rodney Dangerfield notifies the professor he left out a whole bunch of stuff.

https://youtu.be/YlVDGmjz7eM

[William Tell]

A family member of mine wished to build a new home on their property. The existing house was small, sixty years old, and was poorly built to start with.

Instead of building a new home, they ended up "remodeling" the old home in order to avoid about $50k in impact fees.

The fees supposedly represent the costs to the county of building roads, building schools, building waste treatment plants, etc. If a person "remodels" an existing house, it is evidently presumed that the owner already contributed to the creation of these services.

Even while "remodeling", he was required to install a fire sprinkler system. I doubt that the $20k beauties described in this article have such a system.

The progressives running my county are convinced that every household must be able to afford a fire sprinkler system. These same people admire the efforts described in the article to create more affordable housing. This nonsense never ends and the hypocrisy of their position is never admitted.

[marktwain]

If you think 5 acres owns you, try maintenance on a houseboat!

[glorgau]

> not to mention I needed to buy a rider mower to take care of the lawn.

I bought a two acre spot and had never had anything larger than a front lawn. Got a zero turn riding mower and that was the best thing about owning that piece of property.