From: roger61611@yahoo.com
Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
Subject: Possible ? Cheap-o house, act as contractor.
Date: 22 Mar 2005 18:25:46 -0800
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I've been looking for a house to buy on and off for a couple months and
it's really starting to bug me.  In this city in the midwest, in a safe
area with decent schools, a 1400 sq ft all brick 3 BR 2 bath house with
a 2-car attached garage is about $115,000.  There's several in that
range.  This seems ludicrously high.

What am I missing ? Is it possible to actually build a house yourself,
as in act as your own contractor, and save money ?

Land is cheap here, relatively.  Couldn't I put in like about a 60 x 30
concrete foundation, build the perimeter walls out of split block, run
joists across the crawl space, put a roof on, and have a shell ?  I
could fill the split block with sand for insulation.  Sand is cheap.  I
could just do drylock over the split block on the inside, I don't care
what the walls look like.  Build some interior walls, run the
mechanicals, and voila.

Am I nuts ?  Don't suggest prefab, I want something built out of
masonry.