Imagine ordering this house in the mail
Imagine ordering this house in the mail
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Its not quite "getting it in the mail", but getting a complete house plan and kit of materials is still around today. You pay one price and have it delivered to your piece of land:
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(if prices aren't showing up for you select a store in the upper left corner of the screen, I just picked a random store for these screenshots to get the prices to populate)-
Save more money at Menards. Don’t forget to mail in those 11% rebates
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The McLaren is DOPE! LOL, looks like it'd fit in my backyard.
All I see are plans for sale. ?
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My family home started off as a catalog house (not sears). My dad built it when I was 2. They, now I, have continued to change and add on to it over 45 years.
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That's so cool. I bet you feel a real connection to that house.
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Keep in mind that such a house was very affordable, too.
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And those houses now sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars because bullshit.
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They still do this. It's actually a great way to save money.
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We went from Sears to IKEA.
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IKEA Släkt: contains several tons of particle board, ~2.5k wooden pegs, 500 pages of pictured, wordless instructions, and one allen wrench.
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Do you think marriages were ruined by assembling a Sears house too? 😉
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I was skeptical, but it's real.
1921 was $6,488 for a 4 bedroom house, 3,000 square foot. That's $116,518 today.
At 104 years old one of those houses sell for 4 times that now.
https://www.syracuse.com/news/2011/05/syracuse_house_which_came_from.html
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1500-James-St-Syracuse-NY-13203/31660688_zpid/
I know it’s still cheaper but don’t forget to factor in labor cost to build it. That being said it would be interesting to see what the differential is.
Nice, even then the price would fluctuate
Came to say that's not a Sears house! Boy was I wrong.
I thought there was no way!
I wish we could get all the blueprints for these houses and recreate this business. That's crazy that is a Sears home.
I know they have these, there's a house in my old neighborhood that was a sears mail order house, but its a modest sized ranch. Not a 10 room colonial.