Jack Belson

I appreciate your responses, thank you so much! If anyone ever happens to come across this thread in the future, please reach out to me. Another thought that I had was to partner with someone with the building know-how, while I also find a way to obtain unskilled manpower to help with the project (whether in the form of partnering with a school, or finding people who will contribute sweat equity).

Hi all,

I have this vision of buying 50 to 100 acres in Tennessee and building 20 beautiful rammed earth (or another natural material) 2-3 bedroom houses on the land... And equipping them with composting toilets, solar power, starlink internet, etc, so that anyone (especially remote workers) could spend up to a month there comfortably.

One of the houses would be for an on-the-property host (maybe a role filled by a family). I'm looking for a partner or partners to provide the labor and know-how when it comes to building the homes, (and clearing trees/creating a path), while I would cover the cost of the land and materials for building the homes. I'm looking at a 2 year timeline to have the funds available for a project like this.

Is this idea crazy? Would you or someone you know be interested in this? As for how the profits would be divided, I'm thinking of something like a shares system, where shares in the business are distributed to everyone who has a hand in the development of the property, in proportion to their contribution.