re: Cost of building a 800 sq ft house in louisiana

As a builder, its tough to price stuff like this. It's been said already, you have minimums from subs and still have the highest priced areas, like cabinets and plumbing. You would be deleting a lot of less expensive sqft like bedrooms, porches, and garage/carport. You would be missing out on value, like a 120 sqft bedroom that costs 5k to build and gets 12k on appraisal. That being said, if you went with low range finishes, you could get down around 85k. We do a customer participation that would be good if you are handy. We finished the outside and sheet rock the inside.

True, but there are still plenty of people that buy 4+ bedroom homes if they have the money. They typically use the 4th bedroom as a office, game room, guest room, etc.

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The above house was for sale on realtor.com for $235K with no takers in a good part of Metairie, LA.

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That thing would have sold in a day if it were in Old Metairie. The house would have also been torn down the next day, but that's besides the point

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I imagine small houses are hard to sell.

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Several have sold in my area the last couple years, and people seem to be living just fin in them. My house is only 847 sqft, but I also have 350 sqft attached covered deck, another 200 sqft covered attached to a 400 sqft detached garage. Eventually we will tear it down and build a bigger home when we have kids, but it's fine for my wife an I now.