Tumbleweed houses aren't that cheap... Looking at the website they are running about 36k-50k per house.
Back in the midwest that is about right for a small house in certain parts of the country. (You know the kind with a bedroom or two and a bathroom). For example my family bought a 28 acre farm with a house and two out buildings and a corn crib for $90k. I almost bought a wonderful two bedroom lake cottage that was fully winterized with 30' of lake front for $120k. The problem is location, location, location. That was an twenty minutes from a traffic signal, hour from a small city and and hour and half from a bad airport that could at least get you a connecting flight to civilization about twice a day. And to address Anders thought that you can build a community in detroit if you buy enough of the land.... it won't work. To actually form a community and not just have a bunch of young people without children (because the second you even suggest to a mother about putting their young child into the Detroit public school system, they will rip you to pieces). I could tell you some serious horror stories about Michigan schools... And if you were to actually build some nice houses and form a community inside of the city of Detroit, the outside community will tear you to pieces at every chance they can. Heck a local art community (they had I think 120 people working on it) built a really cool public art structure in a park last year with in three weeks it was torched.... -Rob On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Patrick Haller <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 09:39:05PM -0700, Ryan Kabir wrote: >> This thread made my day. The tumbleweed houses have me VERY excited. I could >> do >> a shipping container as well. How difficult do you think it would be to get >> my >> container loaded onto a ship *with me in it* ? >> >> mwahahhahaha > > It'd be cool to use the social impetus to find cheep housing to build a > better community. i.e. if you think you'll be in one place for more than > 5 years, getting a sub-5% mortgage on a condo with other like-minded > people in the near units could work out well. > > Counter-cyclical investing = the goodness. ;) > > > Patrick > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Website: http://saturdayhouse.org/ Post: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
