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re: Home Depot is selling a 3 bed 2 bath 1022 sq ft living dry in home kit for $97000
Posted on 4/4/24 at 7:21 pm to BuckyCheese
Posted on 4/4/24 at 7:21 pm to BuckyCheese
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Probably old Sears kit houses from back in the day, lol. Those were a lot nicer generally than this shitbox.
Yea just a tad nicer
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Posted on 4/4/24 at 7:21 pm to stout
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Spend $30
Where can I get a $30 lot?
Posted on 4/4/24 at 7:24 pm to BuckyCheese
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There's one of these in southwest WI.
What’s mind blowing is building it for 5 grand. I know inflation and all since then but I mean frick. 5 grand in 1930 is about 89k today. So you could build that antebellum style mansion for the price of the shitty Home Depot metal shell today
Posted on 4/4/24 at 7:33 pm to stout
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Spend $30 to $50K on a lot. $97K on the dry-in kit, $15Kto $20K on lot clearing and foundation, $60K for interior finish, insulation, etc. Be at $200K and have a 1022 tiny house with no garage. What a deal!
Yea- the math just seems wonky
$100 a sq ft and from there it’s DIY, you supply foundation and you supply finishes?
Ignoring the lot, doesn’t that seem super pricy for no labor, no foundation and no finishes?
Posted on 4/4/24 at 7:34 pm to stout
21st century version of the old Jim Walter Homes, Sears-Roebuck, Gordon Van Tine, Montgomery-Ward, and Aladdin.
They could be bought with various stages of completion.
They could be bought with various stages of completion.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 7:36 pm to stout
Lord, that's hideous
quote:so what happened to that design.
architecturally designed for beauty
Posted on 4/4/24 at 7:37 pm to BuckyCheese
If you follow /r/CenturyHomes, there's a ton of them all over the US still standing. It's a fantastic subreddit if you're into old houses like me.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 7:41 pm to LouisianaLady
My first house was a beautiful 1916 Craftsman style house with a stone front porch and wood floors throughout the house.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 7:49 pm to deltaland
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What’s mind blowing is building it for 5 grand. I know inflation and all since then but I mean frick. 5 grand in 1930 is about 89k today. So you could build that antebellum style mansion for the price of the shitty Home Depot metal shell today
That's what the kit cost.
You were buying about 40,000 pieces of a house that needed to be put together on a foundation you provided.
But yes, the HD shitbox is ridiculously overpriced and isn't complete either.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 8:24 pm to stout
It's funny how HD puts it on a nice size corner lot with a Porsche and other sports cars street parking.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 8:28 pm to BuckyCheese
One house we owned in NOLA had been salvaged from a Sears house. I was taking the window surrounds off to paint the side to the wall, sand and turn them and then paint them with non-toxic paint and I smiled at the identifications on the unpainted side that told in a letter and number -one would have been what size window and the other where the board went: top side or bottom.
So simple..
So simple..
Posted on 4/4/24 at 8:30 pm to BuckyCheese
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As I recall, yes. All the millwork for inside, doors, trim, etc.
They were a complete kit. All parts coded so you knew where they went.
Shipped in boxcars.
My grandfather still lives in one of these. Delivered by the railroad tracks through his property on the Yellowstone River.
He didn't live there when it was built, but it's still a quality home. Though they've done a lot of updates and expansions through the years.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 8:35 pm to BuckyCheese
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You were buying about 40,000 pieces of a house that needed to be put together on a foundation you provided.
In those days most men had the skills to put it together themselves though. Any manual labor you hired then was cheap, no minimum wage laws. No codes to abide by, no city permit bullshite. You bought a lot, and you built it
Posted on 4/4/24 at 9:08 pm to stout
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Be at $200K and have a 1022 tiny house with no garage. What a deal!
And that is not counting your time to DIY a home build. And while they provide to you engineer stamped plans, you still have to hire an engineer to sign off on the various steps of construction. Who the hell is going to DIY exterior doors, window, and roofing to meet those specs? So, you call a local builder/framer and you get arse raped on price (and rightfully so) due to it being so small and out of the norm (metal stud construction).
And lets not even discuss the cost over runs when even 3% of the materials are missing, out of spec, damaged in shipping and this contractor sits around for a few weeks while you run around trying to source a highly specific window or beam and then get it approved by your engineer.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 9:09 pm to GeauxTigers123
Some much style, even in cheaper houses, before brutalism took over.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 9:10 pm to stout
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Spend $30 to $50K on a lot. $97K on the dry-in kit, $15Kto $20K on lot clearing and foundation, $60K for interior finish, insulation, etc. Be at $200K and have a 1022 tiny house with no garage. What a deal!
I legitimately zoomed in because I thought it said $9,700, thinking no way it’s $97k.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 9:16 pm to BuckyCheese
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They're building neighborhoods of these things in liberal strongholds;
My God, this is just so sad to see these being built!
Posted on 4/4/24 at 10:06 pm to OceanMan
I saw a local contractor advertising dry ins starting at $45 per sq ft the other day so this seems expensive.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 10:24 pm to guzziguy
Lowes had them in the 70s.
That HD one would make a great lake house.
That HD one would make a great lake house.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 10:30 pm to stout
Stout knows everything about real estate, except how to put his soft hands to use and actually build it. Dude is a joke.
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