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From: Panama
5/31/2012 13:45 EST
nispero wood is a good wood, but it all boils down to price, and any type of wood down here is high dollar and no where near the same grade you would get from the u.s. I guess you can build a few things with it, but your going to have to keep it up, I have 14 widows made of wood in front of my home alone, and we keep staining the crap out of them, most are out of the weather and out of the sun, but they still need proctection from bugs.
I have a 8 piece hand made out of huge wood chairs for my front porch and after 5 years the termites have turned them into fire wood.
to billmiller54 again your plan sounds good, but if you can build a two bedroom home for under 8k your way then have at it, heck sign me up and I'll work it with you. WORK, there I go cussing again.
I think if you could get the plans done, then make them out of some kind of plastic molds then bolt them all together, it would cut down a lot of labor and time. the only problem I see with this, is like here in el valle, the very rich really will not allow a bunch of small homes to be built here for the poor, now saying that you might get it done some other place, but again your going to run into the very rich, who are the ones who have the contacts to get the government bank to bank roll all their housing for the poor. as a outsider your dead in the water before you start.. now thinking that way you might say well I could sale them on time to the poor, which is true, which means you better have a ton of cash you can tie up for years, and when they don't want to pay their note to you, well have fun getting the law to make em move out.
laws down here will sink your Buttttt so fast you wouldn't understand it.. like lets say you have a home you built and sold to one of them, they make the first payment and then tell you to go pound sand.. you call the law,, well here is where you will learn a good lesson.. you see down here, if there is anyone that is living in that home who is under two years old, or if a woman living there is with child say three months along, there is no way in god's green earth that the law will make them move, if they paid you or not your stuck with them, and trust me when the police show up to find out there will be 4 kids under one and three women that are 3 months along.
Ideas are a wonderful thing, and I have made this statement more times on here then I can recall, but what works in the u.s. won't work here.
to me a containter home is well a metal box, it might be your dream but what happens when you have to sale it? again by the time you add it all up you have not saved a dime, and your stuck living in a shipping containter.
now as far as a earthquake, you will be better off then my concrete built home that's for sure.
now before everyone starts pounding me with p.ms about the 8k two bedroom,, this is built by a friend of mine, who buys supplies by the ton and gets a huge discount, they build 1k homes on one site and the bank pays them up front for them, he is in no way for hire to build one for you or would he. plus what he builds I wouldn't think any of you would be happy with anyway, they are very small nothings.
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