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>>20263173
bump

>>20263173
Cheap chink shit

>t. Construction fag

>>20263173
What kind of question is this? Seriously bro? It's the obvious answer.
If you are willing to put in the time and effort you can build a small budget home yourself for the same price and it'll be of actual quality. You'll get your hands dirty and the frustration sometimes will be much but in the end it is worth it. Not many things in life better than living in a home you designed and built
t. architect

>>20264166
BASED

>>20263173
The parts of houses that nickel and dime you are not the base contruction (foundation and primary structure). Its the siding, windows and roofing. All the shit that needs replacing over time, even if your house is 100 years old or 20 years old.

>>20264166
I don’t want to deal with all the codes and regulations, seems like a hassle.

I wouldn't buy a modular house from China.
There are some quality manufacturers in Europe that I would consider.
For example:
http://prefabri-steel.com/europa/en/modular-homes-and-construction-non-residencial-in-spain-and-europe/
https://www.weberhaus.co.uk/
https://katus.eu/

The houses from above all comply with EU building regulations and have high U values and energy efficiency ratings.
If I were building a one off house I would seriously consider one for the reduced construction cost and build time - except that the retarded planning system in Ireland makes acquiring planning permission to build a house an expensive and almost futile process.

>>20265071
>life is hard
deal with it

>>20264166
>bro just build a house it's easy
>t. professional house builder

>>20263173
>is a house that has stood for 100 years better than some prefab chink shit?
Delete your thread

>>20264166
You sound gay

>>20265794
I don’t mind the labor, I just don’t want to deal with all the regulations. New houses in my town must have steel I beam support in certain circumstances and first floor must be brick and mortar.

>>20265922
>don’t want to deal with all the regulations.
yeah i know it is alot to deal with it. unfortunately they've been put in place to prevent retards from building deathtraps

>>20263173
Trailers depreciate in value.

>>20265839
Architects only design it. Obviously I'm more familiar with construction than somebody outside of the industry but I had to learn the actual physical process on my own like everybody else. You could hire an architect to design a home for cheap and give you plans and then construct it yourself, you'll be on the same level as me at that point when I was starting out. You think architects know how to lay cement or build a roof? Once you have the plans you start on the same information as everybody else that isn't a contractor
Check out youtube and a few tv shows, there are tons of people with no experience going about this. It's rewarding

>>20265071
That is the bullshit architects deal with. Just do a general design yourself and then give it to one to do the other boring ass shit we have to learn for our license. Simple work like that is not expensive and depending on where you're from it's a requirement even if you already know the building code. They'll give you useful design suggestions too

>>20263173
modular homes are depreciating assets like cars

>>20266068
I'm looking into building an earthship but the worst part is trying to find land where I can have access to water. Probably going to have to settle in Idaho, Montana or Wyoming.

>>20263173
>>>/diy/
>>20266068
>a few tv shows, there are tons of people with no experience going about this. It's rewarding
going through the Aussie series of Grand Designs rn. Its therapeutic vicarious living, to negate the fact I'm a lazy fuck. I'd love to build a house, but, even the TV featured admit, its stressful as fuck, and budget overrun is normally in the region 30-70%. tldr, its not and never a cheap option, especially when you've zero idea wtf you are doing

>>20263173
Firstly, the biggest determining factor of house surivial is that it is occupied and maintained. Multimillion dollar mansions with top notch construction have become unsalvageable because of neglect. Next is material. I own a few Victorian era houses I rent out. They all have a insurance replacement value in excess of six figures above their market value. Literally the materials used to build them would be so expensive today that they couldnt be feesibly built, economically speaking. Its not just the massive ammount of brick and stone work, the lumber quality from that era blows away the stuff today, everything is old growth and twice as thick. Stuff you will not get today unless you are doing high end custom builds. There is a bit of survivor bias here of course, cheap shitty houses from that era have all been destroyed and replaced. We just dont know which modern homes today are the ones that will last 150 years from this point, but I know my houses certainly will. Im somehwat sceptical of mass produced housing durability
>pic related

99.9% of wheeled housing will be worthless and destroyed in 100 years. The 0.01% that survives will be stuff with artistic appeal like vintage airstream restorations/restomods, and highly custom high-end one-off constructions.

>>20265071
FUCKING RETARD. Imagine actually being so stupid that you want to comply with codes, regulations and permits. I'd you're building it yourself and it's in a rural area nobody needs to know. All of these are just schemes to double or quadruple your property tax due to improvements. That's it. Stay cucked and spooked, Luke warm IQ NPC midwit.

>oy vey goy you can't live on land you own in just an rv

>>20264166
if not larping what do you suggest?
ive been planning ICFs or cinder block

>>20266178
Everything depreciates except the land. Thats why outhouses in the bay are are worth millions

Take the dirt block pill

>>20266362
>dies in an electrical fire
BASED