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6/25/2025, 8:36:03 PM
>1900s-1940s
>You could buy all the raw materials, tools, fasteners, fixtures and step-by-step instructions for building a house out of a fucking catalog. Everything would show up pre-cut, pre-drilled, ready for assembly in a few weeks and you could assemble, plumb, wire, and finish it in under a month.
>Adjusted for inflation, a premium four-bedroom kit home cost the equivalent of $20K
>Today that house is probably still standing, has probably only been updated 2-3 times to stay up to code and styles, and is worth half a million dollars
>That same half a million dollars today will buy you a shitheap of barely-joined, ill-fitting 2x4s and particle board that will fall apart in the first light breeze
>You could buy all the raw materials, tools, fasteners, fixtures and step-by-step instructions for building a house out of a fucking catalog. Everything would show up pre-cut, pre-drilled, ready for assembly in a few weeks and you could assemble, plumb, wire, and finish it in under a month.
>Adjusted for inflation, a premium four-bedroom kit home cost the equivalent of $20K
>Today that house is probably still standing, has probably only been updated 2-3 times to stay up to code and styles, and is worth half a million dollars
>That same half a million dollars today will buy you a shitheap of barely-joined, ill-fitting 2x4s and particle board that will fall apart in the first light breeze
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