I'm so old I'm a preboomer. I went to college and spent much of my life working in trades. Had good bennies, good pay, job security, and I'm comfortably retired. Trust me, many many boomers also went into trades and mostly did okay.

Build a yurt yo

Morse Farm will ship any of their products for you. we have been doing this for out of state family for many years.

I tried to buy a house in Waterbury recently and got outbid by 100k. Best of luck

16oz VT maple syrup in glass will cost $14 and up before shipping.

Send the plastic jug.

If I ship maple syrup or beer I use the USPS large flat rate shipping boxes ($22 per I believe). you walk in pick them up for free, pack at home and pay when you are ready to ship. Anything liquid I would suggest putting in a ziplock at the very least, just in case something leaks and fill all the dead space with bubble wrap and news paper.

My goto is Mansfield Maple. They also make candy and other stuff:

https://vermontpuremaple.com/

basically no banks will offer you a loan because they don't want to be left with a half built house if you default

Contractors are extremely expensive and very limited availability

Factor in 20-50k for septic, 30-50k for water+electricity, 50-100k for a garage

Also materials skyrocketed in price during the pandemic and haven't really recovered much.

That's how it is now. Materials haven't come down a ton from the pandemic and now inflation.

Zabby and Elf's Stone Soup
everything about it-

I think we might have the same last name.

Wow. You are such a hero.

We also severely devalue what little independent carpenters that are left. We generally nickel and dime them, expecting them to work for far, far less for construction and the associated trades they're capable of doing than they would make as a specialized trade like plumbing, electrical, roofing, etc.

...which is why most carpenters have been transitioning to those trades.

Thanks boomers

O. Good catch.

Housing is everywhere right now? I'm surprised you even have to ask. Why, just the other day I was walking down the street and my neighbor offered me one of his spare houses if I'd help him bring in the groceries

I literally JUST got off the phone with GMP and they gave a rough estimate of $5k to get the job done. We are right on Route 100, which makes the project easier from their perspective.

Good point on the mortgage loan!

Springfield Family Eyecare if you're anywhere near them; they've done that for me a couple of times now (I like the frames I have!) and they're swell folks

Covid made the cost of supplies sky rocket due to issues with the supply chain. Even though supply is a lot more readily available now, the greedy companies still keep the prices high because they know people will pay it now. It is greed at its finest.

Will do ty

Finding trades contractors in the country (not just VT) is incredibly difficult. Turns out spending 50 years telling everyone it's college or bust had impacts on the other professions. Oopsie

What Is the cost of poles?

One thing you may have a hard time getting a mortgage loan with off grid.

If it were economically feasible to deliver newly built homes for less than the going price of an existing homes, we wouldn’t be in this mess. Our issue isn't that homes are too expense, it’s that our wages are too low.

My husband and I have been looking into building a house in the future. Huntington Homes seems to be the most cost effective way to build aside from doing it yourself.