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Is this really novel in North America?
I'm in NZ and we do this alot. Still, makes for a good story and it's good to see people are getting creative in ways to make their property investment (even if it is owner-occupied) work for them.
I'm in NZ and we do this alot. Still, makes for a good story and it's good to see people are getting creative in ways to make their property investment (even if it is owner-occupied) work for them.
An evicted house finds a new home
An unwanted house gets a second life
To the casual observer, Heather MacEachern's future abode — with its sections surgically cut apart and walls sealed off with duct tape and tarp — might seem like a Frankenstein-like mess. But this situation doesn't faze Ms. MacEachern: She's recycling an unwanted house that's in perfectly good condition by moving it — and saving a few bucks in the process.
Ms. MacEachern, a Toronto resident, wanted to live near her mother in Clearview, Ont., about an hour's drive north of the city. "To realistically build a new house [costs] an arm and a leg," she says. "This is our way of being able to be [in Clearview] without having to kill ourselves with mortgage payments."
The road she travelled to find her new home wasn't an easy one. Finding a homeowner willing to hand over a house headed for the landfill in perfectly good condition isn't exactly an easy task. But fate was kind to her: She found exactly what she was looking for … at a garden party.
An unwanted house gets a second life
To the casual observer, Heather MacEachern's future abode — with its sections surgically cut apart and walls sealed off with duct tape and tarp — might seem like a Frankenstein-like mess. But this situation doesn't faze Ms. MacEachern: She's recycling an unwanted house that's in perfectly good condition by moving it — and saving a few bucks in the process.
Ms. MacEachern, a Toronto resident, wanted to live near her mother in Clearview, Ont., about an hour's drive north of the city. "To realistically build a new house [costs] an arm and a leg," she says. "This is our way of being able to be [in Clearview] without having to kill ourselves with mortgage payments."
The road she travelled to find her new home wasn't an easy one. Finding a homeowner willing to hand over a house headed for the landfill in perfectly good condition isn't exactly an easy task. But fate was kind to her: She found exactly what she was looking for … at a garden party.
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