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Default Moving a 2-Story House

On 08/27/2015 1:27 PM, Snuffy "Hub Cap" McKinney wrote:
I ran across a 2-story 3000 sf wood frame house that the owner will
give away to anyone who will move it off the property. It's a large
urban lot and want to build apartments.

Assuming all the details -- structurally sound, approved by the city
of the new site, moving permits clear, etc.... Has anyone had
personal experience pricing this kind of project?

....

Even having done one (actually it was 2-1/2 story of half-again the
footprint) for the local historical society, what it cost here for that
particular move is totally irrelevant to what it might cost somewhere
else for a different house. It's mostly controlled by just how involved
the particular house and route are; these guys can get in and lift a
small frame house in a morning and be ready to be on the road with it
that evening--the hangups are all the other stuff's they've got to deal
with and that's the time and as another says, therefore, the money.
You'll just have to find somebody local and get a bid.

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