Building Cheap and Creating Jobs

I found a story about a couple in LA who were looking to build a house for $100 a square foot. Which for a 1400 square foot home is $140,000. That's still a lot of money when you throw in the cost of land and permits. All said and done they were able to get their cost down to $114 a square foot my going with a modular built home from a Utah based company.

I'm not convinced that modular is cheaper or better. The prefab footprint doesn't leave much wiggle room for odd shaped lots, needed modifications or different building materials that my be cheaper or lower maintenance.

We're still of the mind of finding plans for a home like this one and adapting it to our ideas and needs.

We like the idea of having a one or two bedroom house with an option to add on later. In this case maybe we'd keep the master bed and bath unfinished and use it for bike storage? 

To get this thing built how we want it and as cheap as we need we're gonna need help from awesome people, like my dad (below on the left).

You can clearly see he's a logical man. He works with what he's got and produces what is needed with those materials. In this case, a baby who drinks hard liquor and wants to join the Blues Brothers...costume.

Dad, you're hired!

See y'all at the party!