11-05-2010, 08:50 PM
Wow, hadn't tuned in for a while! Funny how the subject of yurts hits all kinds of people so differently. Some people get downright twitterpated! StillHope, ahh, it's been a while! Hope you're well. Have to correct one point: insulation at 28k??!! Whoa! You can get a couple big yurts for that, with insulation included and all the great upgrades! I think that was a typo. No worries, I think you meant full roof and wall insulation with a liner for about $2800. Just FYI, when you add a K to a number it's a shortcut for adding 3 zeros.
Well, we've found an insurer for residential yurts and I expect more will follow. (Yurts have long been insurable as structures if they are in addition to a permitted, insured residence. They've also long been insurable as business structures and as camps. Financing has long been available for the latter two uses as well).
We postponed the yurt makers conference because my dear, beloved, phenomenal little brother passed away this last June in a motorcycle accident. He was also our main builder, so his loss hit us hard on several levels. We didn't have the heart for the conference. But we decided to reschedule for late February, because it's important to us and would have been important to him. We'll have a day for the public to come too.
We recently formed N.A.Y.A. (North American Yurt Alliance), so named because of the engineered style yurts that evolved in North America. Many of the large yurt companies and smaller ones alike will be coming together through this alliance and we'll be tackling all kinds of fun stuff in the future, many of which have been discussed in this thread.
And just a note, the soft gutter systems do suck. I agree. But there are regular, hard gutter systems to be had that really do work great. And JDirgo, I'm sorry, I got you confused w/ john rabi, I was sure he knew better than to say that he didn't know of any yurts that were permitted, because we had spoken about that before. Multiple times. So I apologize Jdirgo, my mistake.
Currently financing is either done through personal loans, credit cards or the old fashioned way, building a bit at a time as you can afford. I like that latter route; the more people we can help jump out of the banks financial prisons, the better! But if you must finance, because yurts are so much cheaper than most modern building, the interest rate is a fraction of the cost in the end and you pay it off much more quickly.
A hui ho! Long day, bed time.
Well, we've found an insurer for residential yurts and I expect more will follow. (Yurts have long been insurable as structures if they are in addition to a permitted, insured residence. They've also long been insurable as business structures and as camps. Financing has long been available for the latter two uses as well).
We postponed the yurt makers conference because my dear, beloved, phenomenal little brother passed away this last June in a motorcycle accident. He was also our main builder, so his loss hit us hard on several levels. We didn't have the heart for the conference. But we decided to reschedule for late February, because it's important to us and would have been important to him. We'll have a day for the public to come too.
We recently formed N.A.Y.A. (North American Yurt Alliance), so named because of the engineered style yurts that evolved in North America. Many of the large yurt companies and smaller ones alike will be coming together through this alliance and we'll be tackling all kinds of fun stuff in the future, many of which have been discussed in this thread.
And just a note, the soft gutter systems do suck. I agree. But there are regular, hard gutter systems to be had that really do work great. And JDirgo, I'm sorry, I got you confused w/ john rabi, I was sure he knew better than to say that he didn't know of any yurts that were permitted, because we had spoken about that before. Multiple times. So I apologize Jdirgo, my mistake.
Currently financing is either done through personal loans, credit cards or the old fashioned way, building a bit at a time as you can afford. I like that latter route; the more people we can help jump out of the banks financial prisons, the better! But if you must finance, because yurts are so much cheaper than most modern building, the interest rate is a fraction of the cost in the end and you pay it off much more quickly.
A hui ho! Long day, bed time.
Melissa Fletcher
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"Make yurts, not war" Bill Coperthwaite, 1973
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"Make yurts, not war" Bill Coperthwaite, 1973