05/10/06, 08:17 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 442
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I am in the process of using a metal building for housing. I'm "converting" one third of it, and will end up with a two-story living quarters, about 1200 sq ft. My side walls are 12 ft and the peal of the roof is at 8 ft.
Disbenefits:
1. I have no mortage and carry no insurance. But then I would not want a mortange on don't want insurance.
2. This suites our own taste and purposes. I would'nt expect to get appreciation out of it if I were to sell the property.
3 I'm doing most all the work myself. That's very, very, slow but then it ends up how I want it and not how some contractor can make money building it his way.
Benefits:
1. I get a building that has all the details I want in it, and I'm not enslaved by insurance company or bank whims.
2 Price is cheap and the building is very durable. The per foot cost of a metal bldg on a heavy concrete slab was cheaper and more durable than anything else I could have had built.
3. I get to use the open two thirds of the building to store all my building supplies and tools out of weather - including alot of lumber I had sawn plus things I could purchase on sale or out of season.
4 The compleated costs will be much much cheaper and operating cost of heating, cooling, and electricity will be much less than I could get anyone to build for me.
The only thing I'd consider differently would be temporarily living in a smaller, older, already deprectiated, resaleable single-wide mobile homen on the building site. I would then be on the land and be able to get more done.
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