Very appreciative of the wellwishery. Bless you.

 

Here on the ground, my gift to myself is 40 pounds of weight.

To replace of course the forty pounds I lost.

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From the world at large, I got an official declaration.

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And from the land of sooth dreams, I got … an understanding of sorts.

The whole “shed” approach was already tabled. Then yesterday, we drove on down to Clayton Homes, and learned, essentially, that the whole (compact) doublewide thing wasn’t as viable as it seemed. It’s still possible, but not, for the time being, cost-effective. If I had a hundred thousand laying around I’d be tempted to slap it down on an immobilized mobile home. But I don’t, and I don’t have a way to get that kind of money either, given my remaining equity assets.

So that would seem to leave the tiny home from the Durango man (or something like it) on the table as the sole option.

399 square feet in a 10×39 configuration, for a base price of 29-43K. Pretty simple to pull that to completion on a budget of 75 thousand, which I don’t have … yet. But I well might, after flipping this house.

I think that for myself alone, this is the low-gold standard, and I’m very satisfied with the notion.

But …

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There’s this too; full circle.

 

 

 

 

So the problem with the Arched Cabin idea was always that we never had a serious concrete estimate of what it could cost to actually put one up.

But thanks to friend Lumo, we now do.

Question:

Answer:

After a multi-page very detailed answer from the AI kitty, this is the bottom line.

25 for a kit and 50 to make it habitable. Pushing 75K pretty hard. And yet … it’s not 400 square feet. It’s 960, even before any lofts were added to that 19 feet of ceiling, or any screen porches.

Why it’s a mcmansion, by this po’boy’s metrics.

And within budget, even if just barely.

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The thing is, there are two lots down there, bought and paid for.

Right here and now upon this festive day, what makes the most sense to me is pulling the trigger on the smaller cheaper option and getting a Durango build in the works.

It’s not that (slightly) cheaper is better.

It’s not that I’m settling for 400 square feet because oh poor me.

It’s that once a tiny home is really and actually there in place, I could move into it, and sell this SandRock House and have all the forever housing paid for, alongside nuking all existing debt, alongside having a truly effective and like-new pair of camper options.

And then … lovely Arched Cabin on the second lot? Maybe so.

Which all sounds really good, and even contingently realistic, to my ear.