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     "Our house may look expensive, but the reality is that we only have about $10 a square foot into it. The whole house cost about as much as the average new car. Yet I have seen some million dollar homes that looked like junk. Appearance, like energy efficiency, is more a product of design than of cost. You can take the same materials and arrange them poorly or arrange them well."
     "With a combined income averaging $10,000 to $12,000 a year we lived simply and invested everything we could in building materials. Construction proceeded slowly throughout the process, due to our chronic lack of money. We moved into the house after the second summer, with no doors, few windows, and no insulation in the roof. Winter stopped about three feet from the stove. This might all seem a little rough, but I later realized that we saved at least $150,000 in interest payments by eliminating the need for a loan. That is not a bad wage for a couple years of camping out!"

--Thomas J. Elpel, author of
Living Homes: Integrated Design & Construction
and Direct Pointing to Real Wealth

Last Updated November 30th, 2008


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Looking to buy or sell land in Montana, Wyoming or Idaho?
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Also check out the Corporation for the Northern Rockies
and download their Welcome to the West guide.

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Tom,

We just wanted to thank you for the time you have spent sharing your research and knowledge with others. We recently received our copies of Living Homes and the Slipform Stone Masonry Video and were so thrilled to learn about your work. Your book is the most complete and detailed work we have found on the subject of alternative building (and we've read an awful lot of them!). It is absolutely worth the investment!

When we stumbled upon your website we knew we had found a gold mine. Your articles immediately inspired us. We decided once and for all that we were tired of the rat race and ready to make the drastic change of creating our own sustainable homestead in a rural area. Thank you so much for the time and effort you have put forth to help others achieve their dreams of sustainable living. I don't know if we would have found the courage to take the first steps if we had not been able to hear your story, and learn from your experiences. It will be quite an adventure for our family, but we are looking forward to every minute of it. There won't be a person that knows us (or meets us!) who won't hear about how your book has inspired us. We hope it will be contagious.

Thank you again,
Scott & Marie Greene & Boys

(used with permission)


   

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