Taking the cheapest route still allows for salvaged windows, doors, and more, although not the finest or prettiest parts, but rather functional and affordable versions, all for under $10,000 in material pack.
JUN 24, 2022
An excellent set of questions and answers… You decide. This is the standard package cost, which applies to credit cards, checks, electronic transfers, or paper dollar bills. However, it is significantly cheaper if you bring silver coins, which will be valued at 40 times their face value. Yes, a quarter is equivalent to ten dollars. A Silver Dollar becomes $100 in buying power. Salvage, Texas, and Tiny Texas Houses are turning the clock back on dollar time/value by over 70 years. Buy the materials you want at prices no one has seen since I was a child. Is that enough incentive to inspire some people into action? I hope so, for I am afraid that most people will give up and drop out if there are no great solutions on the horizon soon. Why strive when you can thrive by taking advantage of this simple way to quadruple the value of your money overnight. Find someone who wants to sell their silver coins at market price and then bring them here to get four times that in buying power.
This package of materials will only cost $200 in pre-1964 silver coins. Who else in the world is making an offer like that? Yes, it is limited, as I could run out of materials if this takes off, and I do not plan to restock my massive warehouses once this sale is over. This is the final going-out-of-business sale, which will take the rest of this year to complete. However, now is the time to take advantage of the best selection.
Please comment if you have any ideas as well. Bartering is also an option for buying the parts you may need using an old running tractor you don’t need or lawn mowers, tools, trucks, a forklift (especially a forklift), and you could have all the parts you need to create a home of your dreams, simple or fancy.
As a prospective student, would you like the chance to create homes from salvage for a career as an entrepreneur? Help start a Pure Salvage Outpost and begin building tiny houses to meet the demand in your area. If you use silver, the profits will be extremely high, as the cost of the primary materials will be virtually nothing compared to what you would pay for them in a big box store. They will also be of better quality. Not only will your houses be the best-looking, but they will last longer than any other sort of trailers that claim to be houses on wheels.
This is an example of what the materials are to build a house like the Kidd or Gingered Swann. It is a small guest bedroom or master bedroom size for the space away from the main house. This entire package will cost you only $105 in silver dollars, half dollars, or quarters. Do you know anywhere on Earth you can buy that much for that little change out of your pocket?
Hey Brad, okay, so in educating myself about tiny houses, but exceptionally high-quality, long-lasting, salvaged materials tiny homes of the sort you design and teach others to make, I have been exploring your posts and your YouTube (both channels, Tiny Texas Houses, and Brad Kittel), and learning anything and everything that I can, BEFORE I ever come and do the workshop/s, and before I come to spend the week with y’all before the workshop.
Cody Hahn
What I would like to ask is not specifics, as you have already told many people that it is just too hard to price things without them being there and picking everything out. However, what I would like to begin asking about are the generalities of prices for packages.
With the advent of the Summer Junk Silver Salvage sellout Sale, you can now get kits for such small amounts of money that big profits or saving tens of thousands on a house is possible if you use pre-1964 silver US coins to buy all the parts you need, except the screws, nails, insulation, and wraps you may want to get from the big box stores. Most of the main parts, even the roofing, can be included in a package for less than nickels on the dollar compared to paper fiat money.
So, I want to approach it from a different angle. Rather than asking, “How much does this cost?” or “How much do all these materials cost?” I want to ask, what can be done and built by a young couple doing the labor and time for $10,000? What can be done for $12,000? What can be done for $15,000?
I’m not talking about fanciful arched windows or old Catholic church custom glass windows. I’m not referring to the most elaborate designs and features. Good, strong, durable, long-lasting, efficient, comfortable, healthy, with good storage and a good work area (for leather craft, until a separate studio/little workshop can be built to move all that stuff out of the living quarters and give a wife some sanity! Haha). Maybe something in the 400-450 square foot range.
Or are we thinking way too low in price, even with us doing the work once we learn how? Next, you could start up a Co-op to build, take orders, and help create housing for the many who want tinier, healthier houses rather than McMansions.
Brad, this seems like such a stupid series of questions for you. Please forgive me; I am trying to learn, and I have really been trying to go through your educational material and all the ideas you have shared, first, before I even asked. I’m not familiar with all the details, and I’m unsure of what I don’t know.
This was the first house, a Tiny Texas Cathouse for 7 of the Fur Babies our client wanted to get out of the main house. This was a solution that they loved. It sold for over $20,000. You could also make playhouses, doghouses, chicken coops, and homes, all with significant profits, and then deliver them locally rather than having us build them in Texas and ship them around the world. We sell you parts at the lowest possible price, and you create great things to sell at reasonable prices, still making big profits.
I also know that this is likely one of those things you can help a potential builder understand, price-wise, once they start coming, learning, and seeing what it’s all about. However, I’ve been thinking about it in the meantime.
How about pricing in a way that makes it possible for nearly anyone to get ahead and make incredible profits by purchasing the cheap, low-grade US silver coins and then buying parts for a fraction of the cost, not even 25% of the new price, and the parts will be better than new?
I am looking forward to building some quality and functional (and trustworthy) bookshelves when I am there.
I want to, as you say, “salvage the best of the past”, so that my books can last……..haha.
My response to these excellent questions.
The skill level of the people comes first in answering that question.
As for the cheapest way to do it, using aluminum salvaged windows or other more affordable alternatives, you could get all the materials, using metal for siding and roof, just a little wood siding for decor, and you could do it for under $10,000 in materials… but the variables like electric, plumbing, and insulation are thousands of dollars difference when you figure what you want. Salvage wiring, boxes, and no one to answer to, no problem. Build the shop with cheaper aluminum. Windows, low-grade floors, and such, then build the house as a master suite without so much tied into that structure.
Fancy is good for looks, but for many, the function is the primary concern; speed of construction is secondary, but cost varies for many and is relative to one’s location, as to how far one’s money will go to buy things. Tiny Texas Houses warehouses have over 130,000 SF of doors, windows, flooring, siding, and more. Thus, you can assemble a package of materials cheap enough to build a house for under $10,000.
Still, it will not be as fashionably modern and cute as those that sell for $150,000 to $260,000, as is common for Factory Mobile Homes, also known as Tiny Houses on Wheels (THOWs), due to the misleading sales pitch that “they are indeed houses.” Wrong! It is not anything of the sort; classified as a garden home, it allows more formaldehyde and other chemicals to exist that are not permitted in real houses by code. I do not like the idea of building on trailers, but instead moving houses on trailers or making them so they could be moved one day if desired, but not to let tires and trailers rot, for the people will seldom move them if they find a place they can be happy and stay at for life. Then the RV is just a pile of trash in fifteen years, and it is dangerous to live in due to mold and other issues.
The package of materials to build this house would be in the $250 range, in US pre-1964 coins. Imagine that you could create such houses and sell them for $45,000 to $50,000 each. Your cost for all the materials would be minor compared to the profit you make from your time, labor, and a few extra items you would need from big-box stores.
I would beg to differ, as most are classified as RV. Thus by federal law, you are not supposed to live in them for more than 48 hours at a time due to health concerns from lack of good air, chemicals outgassing for five years from when they are new, and given they only have a life expectancy of 10-15 years before needing more to keep them dry and safe inside than they are worth by then as they drop half in value when you drive them off the lot, and another half in value over the next five years, more of a decline based on paying more to start with. The decline in the value of RVs is currently a significant concern, despite many people considering them as a full-time living option. There is not enough space to park them and live in them available, so the rents are up to a grand a month in places like Austin, Texas, to park in an RV lot.
If ready, there are even some spaces for houses to be planted in the trees, near the ponds, with the birds, critters, and wildlife alive nearby. Then, please consider planting your home in one of the limited spaces that will become available this year for permanent residents. This is a new offer that will be explained to customers who want to build their homes from salvaged treasures, have gardens, and live organic lives with nature included, not excluded from the neighborhood.
I have many materials that are not expensive, but also not to my style or preferences, which would reduce the cost of building. I started getting fancy after Adam passed away, and I prefer it, but the price is not that much more remarkable. The profits, if you are selling more than, make it a reason to do it right.
For more information, contact Darby@PuresalvageLiving.com.
Visit Salvage, Texas, and even stay in a Tiny Texas House. At the same time, you shop and select the significant parts for your home to take away and build with on your land, or stay here and create your paradise with a life estate or buyout if the land ever sells, which will give you all you may need to move on to another place if this gets too citified.
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