Tired of high costs, some Americans are importing homes straight from China

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_Yu_Tang_House

According to Harvard alumna Nancy Berliner (白铃安), during the construction, one incident involved a raccoon that entered the storage room. The Chinese craftsmen killed it with a shovel, skinned it, and cooked it for food.

Ha ha, "According to Harvard alumna Nancy Berliner (白铃安), during the construction, one incident involved a raccoon that entered the storage room. The Chinese craftsmen killed it with a shovel, skinned it, and cooked it for food."

I want to read a story about how this guy does something like that. That would be newsworthy.

Actually the only reason this is currently viable is because lots of these Chinese manufacturers know some good tricks to bypass the current tariff bonanza.

Otherwise, lots of smaller quality home builders have been doing this for decades. They usually fly their client to China to tour around for a week or two, select all the stuff they want, and package it, and then have it shipped to the build site, which still comes in quite a bit cheaper than buying lower quality Chinese imports from the local market.

Granted, it only works if you have experience in home building or have enough cash to actually warrant furnishing a house with top quality stuff. But the last builder I talked to said the client spent about 20k on stuff that would have otherwise costed as much as 75k in the US, despite the more expensive option most likely being an inferior product imported from China.

Seriously, go into any existing furniture store. It is basically rebranded Temu junk at insane prices. The way its going, I'm honestly surprised everyone hasn't just given up and started using folding ABS plastic everywhere.

Same, I thought for a second they were actually offering pre-builts which would have been awesome for the 5 minutes they are allowed to be bought before the government inevitably tariffs it to oblivion lol.

He thinks he’s saving money now, but in the long run, he will be paying for repairs, replacements, etc. Ask one of my former landlords.

when a prefab trailer style home is better than local construction (especially those made by mega corporation construction companies)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO2qmcO9Be0

he will be paying for repairs

none of that shit can be repaired. No parts availability. See most of the Chinese drop-shipped crap at Big box stores.

Agreed. An engineer who can afford to fly to China to hand pick fixtures straight from the factory is whining about home affordability and proposing this as some obtainable solution for literally anyone else.

This is so....unimpressive?