2 Month Program
Option 4. Financial Independence Package - This is the more practical version of Option 1. This option is dedicated to allowing a person to build their own home at the lowest possible cost - thus addressing the single highest cost in one’s life: housing. Hence we look at this as the Financial Independence package - you access a house that you build under our close supervision for $80k. This costs more than Option 1, but is much more doable - as in reality most people will not have the time to learn the 20 trades it takes to build a house by themselves to attain a high quality product. Given that the lowest cost way to access a new home is to build it yourself - but the blocks are time and skills - we are offering this package starting in the summer of 2026. The value is significant - you get a highly-likely-to succeed route to build your own home - requiring solid guidance from OSE - but you do the work and pay for your own materials. In this package, you are the builder - but we avail our facility to you. You join us and live on site for 2 months, while building the core kitchen/bathroom/utility module - the same systems as in our production Seed Eco-Home. You can use our facilities, learning facilities such as the Rapid Learning Facility where you can learn about all the build technique, microskills, materials, and subsystem design, nd participate in any crash courses that we have goin on at the same time. You drive out with a 16x10 foot module, which is self-contained and structural so that it can be lifted with 8000 lb forks onto a trailer - contains the kitchen, bathroom, heat pump, electrical, plumbing - all done ready to be transplanted onto a simple, code-compliant foundation of your choice. The 16x10 module contains all utilities, and PV on its roof. The point of this is that under our close supervision and quality control, you will have built this entire module by yourself. Because this module contains all the guts of a house - it is a core starter module, to which you add whatever space necessary. Since the hard work of utility integration is already done, all you need to worry about is adding more shell structure - which would be easy as you learn how to build our modules during your stay. Therefore, adding on to this core module should be quite doable, and much easier than the core module. We load you up and help you transport and unload at your own site. In summary, you pay us only a reasonable service fee for your time, accommodations, and facility use at our site. You cover all the materials - you act fully in the agency of the owner-builder - where you actually lift the hammer and learn a lot in your 2 month stay. We think that 2 months will be ample time to do this - because we have optimized and modularized all utilities to a high level specifically for the purpose of speed, quality, ease, and cost. And you will have just learned how to break the iron triangle.
