From the monthly archives:

September 2008

How To Buy A House – Seller’s Assist

September 19, 2008

Now that we have our first home posted for sale, we wanted to put some instructional or educational posts on the basics of buying a house. We figure that many people buying 100K homes in the next few years will most likely be first time homebuyers, so this seems all the more important. Thankfully my [...]

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Marker Time – Indoor Air Quality (Materials)

September 18, 2008

Welcome to the first of hopefully a long running series of educational videos we like to call “Marker Time.” I guess you could say this is our take on the UPS Whiteboard style of presenting. In this segment we talk about Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in the 120K House compared to the average new construction [...]

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Reducing the Wall O’ Stuff – Minimalist Series

September 18, 2008

The first problem area as far as excess stuff goes in our current home is our “Wall O’ Stuff.” This wall contains everything that was previously stored in the basement of our last home. When we originally moved into our 900 sf loft, the contents of our basement took up about 300 sf, so while [...]

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120K House Web Only Sale – Now till Oct 1st

September 17, 2008

The time has finally arrived to list the first Postgreen and 100K House new construction home for sale in Philadelphia. Firsts are important to us, so here are some of the self-proclaimed firsts for the 120K House that could soon be yours: First LEED Platinum (hopefully), New Construction, Townhome in Philadelphia First new construction LEED [...]

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Guest Post on Jetson Green and Re:Construct Competition Entry

September 16, 2008

A few weeks ago we decided to answer Jetson Green’s challenge to enter the Re:Construct competition put on by Re:Vision. The competition is aimed at generating new types of structures and techniques to “reconstruct” the ideas and realities of sustainable building. I mentioned that our entry would be titled something to the effect of “Prefab [...]

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Minimalist Series – Reducing to Fit in the 100K House

September 15, 2008

Recently, the wife and I have been talking about how we will need to prepare for the move into the 100K House in a few months. We currently live in a fairly sparsely decorated, ~900 sf loft around the corner from the site, so at first glance it may not seem that we have much [...]

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To-Do List for the Next Few Weeks

September 15, 2008

The next few weeks are going to be busy for the 100K team. Here are the major tasks coming up: Break ground on the 100K House project Sell the 120K House via the blog only (Realtors will get their shot if we fail) Get zoning and building permits for the second project Launch the new [...]

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Tentative Construction Schedule for 100K

September 11, 2008

Brian from Manor Hill stopped by on Tuesday to discuss the construction plans, budget and time line in more detail. Everything is proceeding as he had planned and he is finishing up meetings with his key subs next week. He provided a rough draft copy of the construction schedule as he thinks it will go. [...]

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Recap of Pappajohn Custom Cabinet Meeting

September 10, 2008

Custom Green Kitchen Cabinets Last week I met with Matt Pappajohn of Pappajohn Woodworking who will be making our custom, urban, green kitchen cabinets for the 120K House. Matt use our renderings and floorplans to come up with a concept and design that was also based on some of our previous discussions. The material of [...]

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Draw Schedule for the 100K House Project

September 9, 2008

Since we just closed on the land and the construction loan, why not get into a bit of the details of the loan from Independent Mortgage Company. This may be dull for most of you, but I know some of our readers are very interested in the financing aspects of a new development project and [...]

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