We quit our jobs to build a cabin
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We quit our jobs to build a cabin
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Re: We quit our jobs to build a cabin
#2Outside Online is a consistent source of high quality, long form articles. I always enjoy reading them when someone posts.
Re: We quit our jobs to build a cabin
#3It ended up costing ~$50k (not counting labor) and took a year to build, and they sold it for $115k. The cabin looks phenomenal. I wonder how a tinyhome would compare in cost and features?
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#4It ended up costing ~$50k (not counting labor) and took a year to build, and they sold it for $115k. The cabin looks phenomenal. I wonder how a tinyhome would compare in cost and features?
Late, over budget, and surrounded by other half-done projects made me think that it could be a builders' equivalent of Microserfs.
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#5Those guys don't have a building problem. They have a drinking problem.
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#6They got the property for 3,000 and sold for 115,000 (with cabin)
Where can you buy so low for so much land?
Re: We quit our jobs to build a cabin
#7Those guys don't have a building problem. They have a drinking problem.
Yeah, building a cabin isn't a fundamentally complicated project. Think. Measure. Measure. Cut. Nail. Repeat.
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#8They got the property for 3,000 and sold for 115,000 (with cabin) Where can you buy so low for so much land?
Probably tons of places in the rural West. Note this was only a 1/4 acre and off-grid.
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#9They got the property for 3,000 and sold for 115,000 (with cabin) Where can you buy so low for so much land?
You can easily get cheap empty land in the American West so long as it's farther from the nearest city than your average Javascript crapping baboon is willing to drive with his family in the car for a weekend getaway and the parcel is too small for any commercial use.
The east coast is similar but all the numbers are smaller and the baboons shit under-performing pharmaceuticals and financial products instead of Javascript and SaaS.
Once you make that land livable you will be stampeded by a horde of Californians (assuming west coast) or New Yorkers (assuming east coast) looking to throw their monopoly money at you so that they may acquire your property and exit the rat race.
I'm only slightly exaggerating here.
Re: We quit our jobs to build a cabin
#10They got the property for 3,000 and sold for 115,000 (with cabin) Where can you buy so low for so much land?
Take a look at Redfin/Zillow, set it to a $1-$5000 range, and zoom out. You'll find various lots for sale, some less out in the boonies than you might think.