im just waiting on 3d printed houses to become cheaper (than it already is now) and mainstream.
Those can be an alternative, but aren't great for longevity. They're almost always essentially entirely concrete, which means if you want to get to, say, a pipe in the wall, be ready to smash through rock and then have to fill in a vertical hole in the wall with concrete again. This weakens structural integrity over time any time you've gotta do repairs, and makes them more expensive to do.
The more sane alternative for most people will be prefab housing, where either the entire house is sent in as either a single prefab unit, or a unit for each room that's simply connected and stacked, or where just each wall is a pre-made unit that's then assembled. The latter has become much more common in construction already, and the former is growing market share rapidly right now, to the point you can, right now, literally order a prefab house from Amazon.
As someone who lives in a prefab, I really have to disagree with them being the answer. Unless they stop using vinyl-on-gypsum and the cheapest materials possible..
Water damage is a major issue in these kinds of homes. They're not made with actual wood or conventional building materials, and fall apart so easily. Replacement parts are not standard, making it extra costly and difficult to repair.
Adding, when I walk into an actual house, I can feel the difference as I walk through.
You mean manufactured or mobile homes? They're built like shit by companies that mostly just take advantage of people knowing it's all they can afford. It's pretty much impossible to return the house once it's delivered, and getting HUD to enforce standards takes years of constant work.
That is more then my entire monthly pay check.i want to die.
Yeah about twice as much :(
That is more than my quarter year pay check
Who rents that for 72'000 $ per year? At that point you are throwing away your money and most definitely have enough to actually buy a home.
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