Move over

, originally uploaded by Tera in the Isles.

Someone had a sweet home uprooted and moved. They will replace it with some sort of boxy mcmansion, no doubt. Sort of risky business this late in the game, even for Austin. The economic climate has changed and whatever will be put there will have a sign up for quite awhile. But at least they didn't demolish the house, yay! Actually it may be a loophole that is saving these cute vintage houses. We are thinking, my vintage house loving friends and I, that moving a house allows for more land use than a tear down? Something like that?

You could buy one of these homes for less than $30K and that includes having it moved to your property. Not a bad way to go at all if you own land somewhere around town and want a vintage house. I heard there is a guy in Elgin who is creating his own vintage development and has bought quite a few homes from the Brentwood/Crestview area and moved them over there.

Hmmm $169K for eight acres of land east of town, line a couple of rescued homes in a row, call it Teratown. Teehee