[VerySadAmerican]

Tract builders are basically building kit homes. They build the same 8 to 10 plans over and over. After the first few they know the exact cost and there is little waste. And they typically have around a 30% mark up. Bear in mind their overhead is probably 15%.

By this time next year I hope to have a 1,300 s.f. home built for around $50 a s.f. Add $15,000 for a city lot (in a small Texas town) and my payments will be around $450 a month plus property taxes and insurance.

[PAR35]

You can get high end custom for what some of those cost per square foot. And you can get an existing house with land in much of the country for what a lot of them tally. Four of them look like they might be cost effective for a get-away cabin.

Prices per square foot:
225-300
225-400
28-60
20 up
218.75 (shipping container)
75-150
75-100
125 up
165-200
$25,000 for a garden shed on wheels
49-174
34-65
100
?
40.62

[prisoner6]

Bumping for later with mrs p6, thanks!

[Casie]

Cool post. I love my little metal a-frame on 5 acres. It is 2100sf with a nice deck off the second floor, where we can watch the wildlife. It has a cool metal roof that looks like wood shingles. And the kitchen is big and well designed. It cost us 75k back in 1997. (Of course we have put lots more into "little upgrades" since then.) The only thing I would change now? A bigger fireplace! And we should have purchased more of the surrounding woods. I know it's not everyone's dream home but we sure are comfortable here.

[Usagi_yo]

btt for later

[ExCTCitizen]

Nice, I had a friend in Maine who lived in a dome. Domes are nice homes.