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Flaxbee

(13,661 posts) Thu Sep 27, 2012, 10:27 PM Sep 2012

"Your Dream Home - How to Build It For Less Than $3,500" (1950)

It's a fun book, but a little disheartening to think how much the price of building your own home has soared astronomically in 60 years...

What do YOU think is a reasonable price for a well-built home of decent (not tiny, not enormous) home?

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"Your Dream Home - How to Build It For Less Than $3,500" (1950) (Original Post) Flaxbee Sep 2012 OP

You have it backward: Doc_Technical Sep 2012 #1

Doc_Technical

(3,521 posts)

1. You have it backward:

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Sat Sep 29, 2012, 02:54 AM

Sep 2012

The price of the home didn't go up,
the value of the Dollar went down.

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