Moving a House? (1 Viewer)

[Black Box]

Has anyone had any experience with this?

Washington Post Article

Moving a House

It sounds completely crazy, but I'd love to see something like this go down. Is it feasible? Is it ever worth it?

 

[snogger]

Has anyone had any experience with this?

Washington Post Article

Moving a House

It sounds completely crazy, but I'd love to see something like this go down. Is it feasible? Is it ever worth it?

Didn't read that article, but I have seen this done a couple of times. Both times the house was up for sale for $1.. You just had to pay the moving cost.

If you already have the land it could be worth it if you don't have to move it to far.

 

[Black Box]

Has anyone had any experience with this?

Washington Post Article

Moving a House

It sounds completely crazy, but I'd love to see something like this go down. Is it feasible? Is it ever worth it?

Didn't read that article, but I have seen this done a couple of times. Both times the house was up for sale for $1.. You just had to pay the moving cost.

If you already have the land it could be worth it if you don't have to move it to far.

Yeah, the articles stressed the complications of moving it down streets. Power lines can get in the way, overpasses are a huge issue, and even mailboxes might have to be moved.And how exactly does a house sell for $1? I'd think the materials in a house would ensure that there would be a higher bottom price for a house...

 

[illiterate]

I have seen it done a few times. Mostly with beautiful old rural houses that are moved to a more suburban setting. I think it is only worth it if you can buy the house dirt cheap.

In my hometown there was a beautiful old house they tried to auction off with the requirement that it had to be moved because of a church expansion. They couldn't get the minimum bid of $5,000 because of the moving expenses, and ended up tearing it down.

 

[the moops]

Has anyone had any experience with this?

Washington Post Article

Moving a House

It sounds completely crazy, but I'd love to see something like this go down. Is it feasible? Is it ever worth it?

Didn't read that article, but I have seen this done a couple of times. Both times the house was up for sale for $1.. You just had to pay the moving cost.

If you already have the land it could be worth it if you don't have to move it to far.

Yeah, the articles stressed the complications of moving it down streets. Power lines can get in the way, overpasses are a huge issue, and even mailboxes might have to be moved.And how exactly does a house sell for $1? I'd think the materials in a house would ensure that there would be a higher bottom price for a house...

The house needs to be moved...that is part of the agreement when you buy it for a dollar.Sure they could sell it for more, but then they would need to either move it or take it down themselves.

 

[GroveDiesel]

There's a show on HGTV that's all about moving buildings. Some are houses. One was even an entire college dorm. It seems as if there are a lot of logistics involved, but the guys that do it are pretty good at it.

 

[Black Box]

Has anyone had any experience with this?

Washington Post Article

Moving a House

It sounds completely crazy, but I'd love to see something like this go down. Is it feasible? Is it ever worth it?

Didn't read that article, but I have seen this done a couple of times. Both times the house was up for sale for $1.. You just had to pay the moving cost.

If you already have the land it could be worth it if you don't have to move it to far.

Yeah, the articles stressed the complications of moving it down streets. Power lines can get in the way, overpasses are a huge issue, and even mailboxes might have to be moved.And how exactly does a house sell for $1? I'd think the materials in a house would ensure that there would be a higher bottom price for a house...

The house needs to be moved...that is part of the agreement when you buy it for a dollar.Sure they could sell it for more, but then they would need to either move it or take it down themselves.

Ah, gotcha. That makes sense.

 

[Nigel]

They moved a house on my street last year, albeit only 100 feet. It was on a large lot they wanted to split so they could build another house and sell it. They built the foundation for the new location, jacked the house up off of it's existing foundation put three or four very thick steel beams running from the lod foundation to the new, and slid the house on the rails over to it's new location. They built the new, larger house on the other half and sold it for 800K. Pretty crafty.

 

[Black Box]

They moved a house on my street last year, albeit only 100 feet. It was on a large lot they wanted to split so they could build another house and sell it. They built the foundation for the new location, jacked the house up off of it's existing foundation put three or four very thick steel beams running from the lod foundation to the new, and slid the house on the rails over to it's new location. They built the new, larger house on the old footprint and sold it for 800K. Pretty crafty.

That is incredible. I'd work for free with a crew on something like this just to experience it first hand. Of course, I'd probably be a liability for the crew, but that's beside the point.

 

[TommyGilmore]

And how exactly does a house sell for $1? I'd think the materials in a house would ensure that there would be a higher bottom price for a house...

Developers buy the land and plan to demolish & rebuild; they auction off the houses and basically tell people "You have 30 days before the bulldozers come."If the house isn't gone in 30 days then they slap you with a demolition fee.

 

[Nigel]

They moved a house on my street last year, albeit only 100 feet. It was on a large lot they wanted to split so they could build another house and sell it. They built the foundation for the new location, jacked the house up off of it's existing foundation put three or four very thick steel beams running from the lod foundation to the new, and slid the house on the rails over to it's new location. They built the new, larger house on the old footprint and sold it for 800K. Pretty crafty.

That is incredible. I'd work for free with a crew on something like this just to experience it first hand. Of course, I'd probably be a liability for the crew, but that's beside the point.

I edited a minor point. The new house was not built on the old footprint, that one was in the middle of the lot. They dug a new foundation for the new house.

 

[Team]

It happens all the time down here in Louisiana. People like restoring old houses and people don't like parting with family land.

 

[3C's]

They moved an old 1900's train depot a few miles from my house. It was quite a site.

After one of the hurricanes, quite a few houses in flood prone areas had their houses jacked up.

Pretty amazing stuff.

 

[GroveDiesel]

So yesteday you're talking about looking at new houses and today you're talking about moving a house?

 

[Black Box]

So yesteday you're talking about looking at new houses and today you're talking about moving a house?

Gotta check out all my options. Tomorrow I'll be asking how the homeless make it from day to day.

 

[Flying V]

They moved a house on my street last year, albeit only 100 feet.

My brother had that done last year to a 2-story he owns. $8,000.

 

[glumpy]

They moved a house on my street last year, albeit only 100 feet.

My brother had that done last year to a 2-story he owns. $8,000.

I am looking at a property today where I think we'd have to move a house about this far--nice to have an estimate!! Assuming it doesn't sell for relocation how would this compare to bulldozing it down?

 

[Fat Nick]

My parents live in a house that was moved...or more specifically, part of it was. The middle section was originally built in the early 1800's...exposed beams, OLD stairway is steep as ####. They built a more modern addition onto it in the 1920's. It used to sit as the guest house on an old farm a couple miles away. In the 1930's they decided to move it up to where it sits now. No clue why honestly except maybe they felt they could subdivide the farm land and sell it for more with a house and didn't want that guest house anymore...

There are about 2 pictures we've found in an old estate book of it being moved. The pictures show it coming across the creek at the corner of our property. It looks like they used a system of logs and rollers, and draft horses. It came up a REALLY steep hill to get to where it was. Pretty amazing honestly. Since it was moved, there have been 3 additions (2 by my parents), and now it's a huge house...really odd inside though. Tons of character with super old beams worked into stainless steel appliances and such.

 

[johnnycakes]

They moved an old 1900's train depot a few miles from my house. It was quite a site.

After one of the hurricanes, quite a few houses in flood prone areas had their houses jacked up.

Pretty amazing stuff.

Yeah, a guy a work with has a beach house on the cape on stilts. Looks something like this.

I've seen a couple of house moves... but the thing that really got my attention in that first article was the asbestos shingles. it might cost as much to remove those as it did to move the house.