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Feel you can you afford a Custom Home?
You probably should be looking at a
Custom Boat….
I’ve been through this time and again, still many feel
custom or semi-custom boats are only for the well heeled or the upper
crust. That’s no less true than if made-to-measure homes were only for
the wealthy elite. Truth: it is not cheap to buy a boat... any boat.
Unfortunately sometimes that fact gets lost because of the small number
of boats produced even by the “big” production builders. But compare
that truth to home sales.
A great production run for a 50-ish foot boat might be 100 to 125 units.
Cost? Let’s say 1.2 million each for easy math. Think of that in terms
of home sales in your area. Yes it’s a lot of money, but a good
developer can probably achieve that return in a couple of years of
investment on 25 to 50 acres of good farmland. Still many of you have
looked at these houses and remain unimpressed. You understand these
expensive tract houses meet some folks needs, just not yours. Still the
functions demanded of a home remain pretty simple. The rooms, large or
small, and the kitchen, Spartan or extravagant, just have to sit there
on the dirt provided.
Unlike boats they don’t have to make their own water, generate power,
and they certainly don’t have to migrate from field to field at the whim
of the owner. Houses are, in fact, much less complex mechanically than
even the simplest 55-foot yacht. Boats, on the other hand, are expected
to offer most of the comforts of home, but surrounded by ever changing
vistas.
If you feel the insatiable desire to tweak or manipulate a new home to
make it your own... you probably should also be looking at a custom or
semi-custom boat. Why pay hundreds of thousands, if not millions of
dollars to fit yourself and your cruising plans into the equivalent of a
manufactured home (not that there’s anything wrong with that). Instead,
build the boat that suits your destiny.
But that’s just my opinion.
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