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These houses still had to be built, hooked up to plumbing, wired for electricity, have a lot cleared and excavated, concrete poored... Also you still need to de
by erickj 2y ago
These houses still had to be built, hooked up to plumbing, wired for electricity, have a lot cleared and excavated, concrete poored... Also you still need to decorate and provide appliances.
Add all that in and you'll see theres a few 100k worth of additional work not in the kit
So that $52k price is really just for building materials and plans, but doesn't include land, permits, building costs.
- worstspotgain 2y agoThe 1920 all-included price would not have been tripled. Consider that the median US house price in 1940 was $2938, or $66K in current dollars.