[DouglasKC]

If you knew how many nails I have pulled out of boards, my dad used to sell houses built with all used lumber, and used bricks, he even used antique adobe that he would take from very old adobe houses, the very large adobe, unlike the modern ones, in a personal house for himself he used old insulation out of old railroad refrigeration cars, used lumber, and antique adobe.

My step grandfather had a house moving/house destruction business and also a salavage yard. The salvage yard was all the materials from the houses he demolished. Most summers by brothers and I were pulling nails from boards and chipping grout from concrete blocks and bricks so gramps could stack em and resell them easier.

[ansel12]

Exactly.

When he moved to a different state my dad would come to Houston to wreck some houses and ship the lumber to his new state, when he needed money he would have his laborers build a house on one of his lots and then get a bank loan on it, and of course sell it if or when he needed to.