Quick summary - looking for a relatively inexpensive yet durable home for a property I own, and was wondering if anyone had any experience with residential pole barn homes.
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I have a family owned property in Kentucky that my wife and I are slowly turning into a homestead. 100+ acres, and I am planning on building a home somewhere in the less-feral portions of the plot. There is a house there now that would be ungodly expensive to rehab and make liveable (built in the 1930's, small, no septic (pipe into a field), ancient wiring, and full of asbestos, ladybugs, etc. ) so I was looking at affordable, non-mobile home type options for a house, and pole barn homes seemed to fit the bill best.
Does anyone here have any experience at all with building/using this type of structure for a residence? I have also looked at steel frame kit homes, etc. but keep coming back to the pole barn option as being the best I can see for the property.
Could use some input if anyone has any.
Thanks.