For materials cost alone, mind you – not including any labor you hire out in constructing it, and not including the land to put it on.

These were typically put together by farming communities, kinda like a barn raising. Even if you had one of these put together for you, it’s not like labour was a huge expense back then.

And I’m guessing that 25k doesn’t include any electrical, certainly not any HVAC, and maybe not even any indoor plumbing…)

It’s hard to make out, but in the link I posted you can see the add one that includes things like heating, electrical, plumbing, or different roofing materials. The additions are pretty affordable as well.

Still, building codes and inspections aside, I think it could be a decent idea even in modern times to have mass-produced, mail-order house construction kits available.

It was a pretty lucrative business for sears until the great depression hit. Unfortunately it was their mortgage side of the operation that forced them under. It would be interesting to see how they would operate today. The quality is great, I live in one from the early 30s and the bones are still rock solid.

I actually live in one that was built in the 30s. They’re actually really well built since they used truss plates for all the framing, plus the quality of the wood from back then is night and day compared to the stuff you can get now.

You used to be able to buy similar homes from a sears catalog and put it together yourself. Maybe not quite as much detail, but still a lot more than you’d find anything on the market in the last 40 years.

Btw $753 adjusted from 1913 is only around 25k.

Some parts of it still have lead sheath. For some reason.

My house is from the 30s and we had old knob and tube wiring, some of which had the lead sheathing as well. I would advise you probably replace that old wiring as soon as you can. The insulation under the sheathing is most likely cotton soaked in asphalt. After a while the asphalt dries out and becomes brittle and the cloth kinda just disintegrates over time. If that insulation fails the sheath can become electrified or create shorts.

We thought about keeping some of the original wiring when refinishing the house, after chasing down shorts for a couple days and one small electrical fire later… We ended up redoing the whole system.

Its commentary on how Margot Robbie’s character Barbie contrasts against Barbie the toy whose genitalia is smooth and chaste, signifying how the character is developing into a real woman opposed to an idealized plastic figure of femininity… Probably.

To confirm we would have to examine the size and presentation of Kens bulge as his character develops. A moose knuckle in the third act would confirm my hypothesis.

Nancy Reagan was using astrology for things as small as determining when Air Force 1 was allowed to land, and everything worked out fine for America… right?