Carport - who's right ?

[Hotzcatz]

Well, Eightfingers, I think it will be a tiny bit more than that per square foot to actually build a house. Last house I scratch built was in '94 when materials were a bit cheaper and that one cost $22.40 per square foot. That included the land, permits, plumbing and electrical and a lot of sweat equity. It was a nice house but not overly fancy. It was designed to be inexpensive to build and to be able to be built by a small unskilled crew and to have nice curb appeal. It met all the design criteria but it was way more than $2 a square foot.