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Architect’s big idea: Tiny, $11,000 house
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| 18 DECEMBER 2013
| CLAUDINE ZAP
Posted on 12/18/2013 4:23:12 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
$11,000 for a tree house on the ground is a bit much.
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posted on
12/18/2013 4:24:25 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
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posted on
12/18/2013 4:25:38 PM PST
by
advertising guy
(givin Iran, an oil producing country, billions, is like givin Texas cattle cause they can grow hay)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Now just stack them up to make the eco-nuts happy.
Welcome to Obama Towers....
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posted on
12/18/2013 4:26:12 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
To: GeronL
Work @ Home, save the environment..
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posted on
12/18/2013 4:27:19 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Not bad.
Sometimes all you need to be happy is a small home and the means and ability to afford travel.
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Miller began to build a 196-square-foot house in 2011, right on a flatbed truck. The cost: $11,400. They're called mobile homes. People in trailer parks live in them inexpensively.
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posted on
12/18/2013 4:27:58 PM PST
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I’m all for it. Get you some land, buy you some plywood, and build you a house. Start small, and add to it, with no debt. Davy Crockett did it. So did Daniel Boone.
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posted on
12/18/2013 4:28:01 PM PST
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Travis McGee
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
From 1987 to 1994, on Long Island, NY, the home of “the mother/daughter house”, I lived in a one-car-garage-turned-apartment!
It was cozy.
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Amazing. Expenses are about $250 per month?
and this quote:
“Miller is settling in for her first winter in the cozy home with her 100-pound Great Dane, Denver, and her baby-to-be: She is pregnant and due in March.”
To: Travis McGee
(Correction. They didn’t use plywood. Home Depot and credit cards were not yet invented.)
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posted on
12/18/2013 4:29:21 PM PST
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: ransomnote
also - it’s built on a flatbed truck and currently parked in an empty lot
To: ransomnote
Maybe the great dane will eat the baby. Or the baby will grow up to ride the great dane. Whatever floats your boat: thank GOD it’s still a free country (for the moment).
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posted on
12/18/2013 4:30:41 PM PST
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
It’s called a trailer house. We’ve had them for years.
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Sears Roebuck used to sell a 2 bedroom, kit house for $5,200 back in the early 1950's.
Not sure if it included the building contractors , or was just the kit.
I had a Sears Roebuck house on the corner of my street until it remained for sale for 2 years, and unoccupied .
It was torn down last year , since the taxes didnt go down , even while unoccupied .
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posted on
12/18/2013 4:31:26 PM PST
by
Tilted Irish Kilt
(Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Interesting idea.
I have no idea where the sweet spot is but it seems to me they could make it a little larger and still not be very expensive.
When I returned to college to get my masters I decided to just live in my travel trailer. It was 35 feet long so a bit larger than that house but it was perfectly comfortable.
Also to all those people who always talk about trailer parks etc., my next door neighbors were a young couple who had a little six year old girl. They were as nice a couple as I have ever known.
When they turned my power on, they did not hook it up. I had to do that myself. My neighbor was nice enough to do it for me as I had no idea how.
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posted on
12/18/2013 4:32:01 PM PST
by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
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posted on
12/18/2013 4:32:15 PM PST
by
donmeaker
(The lessons of Weimar will soon be relearned.)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
They’re called “Tumbleweed” homes, and they’re a hell of an idea for many people!
A quick search will show MANY innovative and useful designs, from full-time residences to luxury hunt cabins.
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posted on
12/18/2013 4:32:24 PM PST
by
papertyger
("refusing to draw an inescapable conclusion does not qualify as a 'difference of opinion.'")
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