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Friday silliness.
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They had the land and the plan ready for a 3,000-square-foot retirement home.
But sticker shock and a sour economy spurred Lee and Donna McCollough to downsize their dream into a 336-square-foot "country cabin."
"It was mostly an economic move. But it’s serving our lifestyle very well," said Lee McCollough of their home near Schulenburg in South Texas.
Built from vintage salvage materials by Tiny Texas Houses of Luling, McCollough said the "turnkey package" cost $70,000. "It’s great," said the 62-year-old retired electrical technician. "People are impressed with the construction and coziness of it. It’s built like an Igloo ice chest."
Tiny home proponents call it "super downsizing," but that’s just the extreme edge of a growing movement away from suburban castles and into "right-sized" homes that require less energy, upkeep and money, experts say.
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P.T. Barnum would have sold these clowns a ticket to see the "Egress". I've been pricing land, homes, modulars, monolithic domes, foam domes, various alternative / cheap housing. These people are being swindled,$200 per sqft, is highway robbery.
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Schteveo
8 comments:
each time i was in texas and i whipped it out, twas the same siz
srk,
things don't GET bigger when you go to Texas, they just ARE bigger, naturally.
I wqqs glad caws I wasfraid id be hoodwinked by a roving gang o amazom wimmons
$200 per sf and no land included (they had their own land)! Steve is right.... Highway robbery!! We just built our "dream home" for less than $100 sf. And Bill... you wouldn't be hoodwinked by a roving gang of amazon women. Not for the reason you mentioned anyway. :-)
Gee, for only an additional $900. per sq. foot, they could've bought a little place in Manhattan. But at least you can park your car in Mexas.
Well, shoot - we just bought a very nice, well built, energy efficient, lots of extras 310 sf travel trailer for $95 sf.
It's kinda handy having a house you take with you when you move.
Problem is, God hates trailers. Living in a trailer in tornado country is akin to carrying golf clubs while riding a horse over a treeless hilltop in a lightning storm.
srk,
Hoodwinked? I thought they uh, 'removed' that when you were just a wee baby, your hood thing, or is it your thing hood? They cut mine off, and I'm Catholic! I'm just sayin...
C-Bugaloo,
I'm crunching numbers with housing intentions right now, lotsa sweat equity, but at less than $50 sqft. It's my dream house because it will be MINE, not the mortgage companies this time. It may never be truly done, because we're building, adding, building, enclosing, etc, etc, etc. But at WAY less than $200 sqft, that's just stupid. They could have bought regular houses 1000 to 1500 sqft for those prices.
A fool and his money are soon buying mini-houses in TX.
This way to the Egress children, step right up, step...right...up!!
I could easily have constructed a 336 square foot building for a bit less than $100 per square foot, including electrical and plumbing. These people got screwed.
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