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2900 sqft is actually a lot of house. With windows, plumbing, and wiring such a house would cost over $1MM in Amazon's home, Seattle.
by all_blue_chucks 7y ago
2900 sqft is actually a lot of house. With windows, plumbing, and wiring such a house would cost over $1MM in Amazon's home, Seattle.
- fkdjlsfjklds 7y ago$1MM is mostly for the real estate, not the BOM.
- all_blue_chucks 7y agoThat's simply not true. Empty plots sell for MUCH less than half the cost of homes in the area.
- serf 7y agothe difference in cost between a plot with and without a house is not an honest way to gauge BOM cost; there is value in the effort, permitting, and planning.
- jostmey 7y agoBut the actual construction costs aren’t that high. You’re neglecting the labor (time, effort, and redoing) required meet city codes :-(
- all_blue_chucks 7y agoThe point of a DIY house is you do the labor... yourself.
- jacoblambda 7y agoYep but you have to pay for the labour from the many inspectors who have to verify it's correctness and the legal cost for properly filing all the paperwork to legally allow the structure to stand.
- ianai 7y agoWhere I live that would go for around 400k. I’m about level to LV prices. At 150k you have a pretty strong budget for the land. Don’t know what the plumbing and electrical would run though. Edit-Ok after looking at the photos I could see that going for more toward the 500k line. That’s a very nice home.