Selling Used Portable Classrooms:

Many states are building new schools. Now that many of these schools are coming on line, the districts are beginning to auction off the old portable classrooms. These classrooms make great buildings for churches, day care centers, weekend cabins, small homes, offices etc.

What you can do is;

You buy the classrooms at auction and have them moved to a storage field. Advertise the units for sale or lease, depending on your financial situation. It is important to get a lowest possible cost of moving the units before you bid on them.

The Numbers:

Expect to pay from $2,500 to $6,500 per unit, and moving cost can be from $2,500 up. low moving cost is the key to controlling your overall investment. You sell the classroom ubilding using classified ads, on a to be moved basis, or set them up on some rural property and sell them as finish it your self homes. In areas where there is recreational land for sale people are looking for low cost alternatives to building conventionally.

Call local house movers to get a feel of what the used classrooms should sell for. My experience has been that you can get from $12.00 to $20.00 per square foot for them. Call the school district's purchasing department or call and ask who is in charge of new construction projects, they should be able to tell you were to call for auction information.

It does not have to be a classroom, I have sold houses, offices, barracks, and other structures this way for more then twenty years. The trick is buy cheap, and negotiate hard with the house mover to control cost. Moving cost is the biggest expense.

What I have seen:

I know of one person who is accumulating the classroom units in a storage field. They are either holding them for re-sale or holding them while they locate property to put the units on. I also saw two more classrooms units being set up along a highway to be used as office space.