Does anyone build to sell?

[kaster]

Hello Everyone,

New member here. I'm a real estate agent in San Jose, Ca and looking to work out of the city and soon build a log home in Southern Oregon/Northern CA.

Looking at some of the student build photos, some mention the value in a log home. 10-30 k for land, 50k to build and the value of the property must be around $150-200,000. Seems like some profit to be made for anyone who enjoys craftsmanship and working with their hands.

Does anyone here enjoy building log homes so much they made a career/business out of buying land, building a home and selling the property?

[jrdavis]

Kaster,

Check out this link of just a few listed and sold inthe last few years.

http://community.loghomebuilders.org/showthread.php?9623-Put-Some-New-Pictures-in-the-Student-Gallery&highlight=ellsworth

JD

[loghousenut]

It is being done successfully by more than one member but the site is geared toward the owner builder who wants to stay out of debt while building his/her own home with their own hands. 30 or 40 years of history have proven the LHBA style home to be easy to sell but 95% of them are sold after being lived in while the family who built them grows to maturity.

If you're wanting to build a log home here in Sunny Southern Oregon, check out "Homestead Log Homes" in Medford and then take the class and build a "real" log home of your own, like I am, and keep $200,000 in the bank for your old age.

If you decide to sell it and build another one, you'll have a bit more for your old age.