4) $360K for a 1,700 SF house? That is $211 a square foot; unless the land cost him $190k (which it probably does not since it is on a UTILITY EASMENT), I don’t buy it.
If you can’t build a house yourself for under $100 a square foot, you are doing it wrong.(Granted I am being a snob but that does not look like an expensive house to me)
I'm finishing up DIY-building a 2000 square foot addition that's bigger than his house, including a $20k kitchen, 3 bedrooms, bathroom, garage, living room, diniing room, the works- more than doubling the size of my house... for about $80k total- that's about $40/sqft for whoever's counting. And that's using quality materials and not cutting corners. No way that house cost him $360k to build if he built it himself like he claims. It might be
worth $360k if it was built 100' away, but it certainly didn't cost him that to build.
Nobody has said that National Grid has sent out a surveyor.
On the one TV interview, national grid said they had an independant survey done, and he built on their easment.
[This message has been edited by SteveFehr (edited 01-03-2007).]
