Homes

[IBleedBearsBlood]

I’m looking for a way to built a cheap home. Or even buy one but at a cheap price. I can afford a $450,000 house and pay it off in 10-12 years. The thing is, I just don’t want to spend that much for a home. I would rather buy a lot, build a basic home and move in with all necessities per code to be a livable space. I can slowly install things on my pace. So basically all I want is the structural done, all exterior down, finished walls with trim, Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing done, and one cheap cabinet only per sink for the time being. Just can lights for light. No fixtures or what not. Just to be able to move in. I honestly think I could get this at a good price. I’m paying $1,540 for rent right now so I could use that plus my savings to continue with the interior at my pace. I just think it’s ridiculous paying $400,000+ for a home whenI can put half that money towards retirement or invest it. Ridiculous for me. Doesn’t mean others that do are ridiculous. All my family of 3 wants is a 1,100sqft home. Just to sleep, eat, and shit in. Nothing more. I don’t care for any fancy shit in our house. I’m thinking I can probably do this for $130,000. Not counting the lot that I’m currently looking at. School ratings are good around that area as well.

What do you guys recommend or what is your input on home prices. If anyone has built a home, how was the experience and was it worth it for you? Are homes fucking expensive nowadays? Is my wife and I just being cheap and should get a $400,000 home? Would like to hear anything you got to say.


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[oober]

What area of the country are you in? Makes a big difference on prices. In south eastern WI where I am at, you can build a 1100 sq ft home on a small lot easy for about $150,000, complete IMO.

 

[Hawkeye OG]

I had a 1750 sq ft home built two years ago. Pretty basic and you could call it cookie cutter. I've done all my own landscaping, deck addition, fence, put down wood floors on the main floor and crown molding. Haven't started on the basement yet. It was a fairly easy process for me. Found a realtor who was 50/50 owners with a builder. They had two or three different floor plans. We picked the one that worked for us and then got to pick all the finishes. Not our forever home by any means, but it was cheap (215k) and built in an up and coming neighborhood with restaurants/shopping malls and other developments going up all around us.

What you're looking for sounds like you want just a bare bones house with no finishes. You'll likely have to find a builder that will do that for you. Check out local home expo shows and that brings a lot of your areas home builders to one spot. When the economy is good like this there are a plethora of home builders that will allow you to customize your home to how you want it.

 

[IBleedBearsBlood]

I live in Austin Texas. Don’t mind moving. I am a superintendent for commercial construction. So I know some people for all trades and I can get good prices. Now I don’t know about Wisconsin. I might have to look somewhere else before there.


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[truthbedamned]

I live in Austin Texas. Don’t mind moving. I am a superintendent for commercial construction. So I know some people for all trades and I can get good prices. Now I don’t know about Wisconsin. I might have to look somewhere else before there.


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Move to Waco. I heard there is a couple there that are really good at Fixer Uppers. Chip and Joanna something or other.

 

[Bearly]

I live in Austin Texas. Don’t mind moving. I am a superintendent for commercial construction. So I know some people for all trades and I can get good prices. Now I don’t know about Wisconsin. I might have to look somewhere else before there.


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Go to Marfa while the getting's good. I suspect they don't want it getting bigger but I bet it's coming.

 

[IBleedBearsBlood]

Go to Marfa while the getting's good. I suspect they don't want it getting bigger but I bet it's coming.

Will do. I’ll check the schools too.


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[AussieBear]

I live in Austin Texas. Don’t mind moving. I am a superintendent for commercial construction. So I know some people for all trades and I can get good prices. Now I don’t know about Wisconsin. I might have to look somewhere else before there.


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one of me old stomping grounds.. u gotta move out of travis county with those taxes.. ain't beneficial fer the retirement ages peeps.

theres always some bfe fm road where you can build a homestead prepping compound in duh tx. earth bags mang. iirc me fam whobe still lives in austin done toldz me some lady actually got approval n built a earthbag home on the east side somewhere.

hell.. get an old run down trailer dats on a ranch.. live in dat while u be building yo shit.

earthbag and cordwood be cheap options if you want something bigger than a tiny home built on a flat trailer.

reclaimed wood n build u a cabin.

hell you can order manufactured cabins fer cheap.. you just have to do the finishing for all the shit you be want.

i wouldnt recommend shipping containers in the tx heat.. unless you be building a secondary roof fer shade. or be blasting ac 24/7... **** them 90 degree 10pm bs shits

yurts be an optionz tuooos...

earthship and hay bale homes....

another quick, cheap build, be an A frame structure. you can get creative wiff these.. hell join two a frames...

geodomes...................

many options.. just depends on how creative n cheap u wants to be n any covenants you be gots to deals with..

 

[AussieBear]

buying in that budget though

i aint be there in a while.. lived there twice.... but what about those starter homes around del valle n colorado crossing near the airport.. i remember those be in the 100-150+k.. did that starter home development at the end of riverside dr finally get realized...

at the same time dis was a long time ago n austin real esate be hots ferever nows... so me prices probably behind a tad... i can member me first time living there ....... when soco bungalows be 70-100k all day..

da new burbs/developments in del valle aint bad if you aint scurred of family friendly mexicans with they bbqs n music... ..

what bout those palm harbor peeps with they modular homes on 183... they was always pitching deals if you be gots land

 

[Crystallas]

I mostly built my home in 2006. Whole different world now.

The main reason was wanting rammed earth, doing my own drainage system and rainwater collection, wanting solar and wiring my home how I wanted it. Back then, because so many builders wanted to get into the game for these techs, it was much cheaper to get help. Now those seem to carry a premium. So really, IDK where people buy cheap houses or build them. Unless they build shit houses and boast about quality (wood frame, part board everything, vinyl siding, paper thin walls, built to be bulldozed in 30 years).