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Gennadiy Tsygan knows how expensive it is to build a home in the United States. That’s why he imported almost everything for his dream house from China.
Most of his home fixtures were imported directly from over two dozen factories, and Tsygan — an engineer in Baltimore — flew halfway around the world in 2024 to choose some of those products.
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What a bullshit article.
Guy fills his house with stuff bought on Alibaba and Temu.
Agreed. An engineer who can afford to fly to China to hand pick fixtures straight from the factory is whining about home affordability and proposing this as some obtainable solution for literally anyone else.
He thinks he’s saving money now, but in the long run, he will be paying for repairs, replacements, etc. Ask one of my former landlords. 😂
he will be paying for repairs
none of that shit can be repaired. No parts availability. See most of the Chinese drop-shipped crap at Big box stores.
Not the crappy fixtures, but my kitchen cabinets definitely needed to be replaced when my shitty kitchen faucet sprayed water all over the place. Yeah, the cabinets were cheap particle board, too. 😂
In this article “Rich guy does ecentric thing”. News flash, most of our houses are being built with stuff from china. The rest of us just don’t get to fly around and tour the factories.
*eccentric
But yeah, I thought this was going to be about having a house built in China and then loaded on a boat and shipped. A manufactured house or maybe a doublewide. But no, the guy just bought fancy house materials for cheap by skipping the middleman.
Clickbait.
Same, I thought for a second they were actually offering pre-builts which would have been awesome for the 5 minutes they are allowed to be bought before the government inevitably tariffs it to oblivion lol.
Ha ha, “According to Harvard alumna Nancy Berliner (白铃安), during the construction, one incident involved a raccoon that entered the storage room. The Chinese craftsmen killed it with a shovel, skinned it, and cooked it for food.”
I want to read a story about how this guy does something like that. That would be newsworthy.
According to Harvard alumna Nancy Berliner (白铃安), during the construction, one incident involved a raccoon that entered the storage room. The Chinese craftsmen killed it with a shovel, skinned it, and cooked it for food.
Actually the only reason this is currently viable is because lots of these Chinese manufacturers know some good tricks to bypass the current tariff bonanza.
Otherwise, lots of smaller quality home builders have been doing this for decades. They usually fly their client to China to tour around for a week or two, select all the stuff they want, and package it, and then have it shipped to the build site, which still comes in quite a bit cheaper than buying lower quality Chinese imports from the local market.
Granted, it only works if you have experience in home building or have enough cash to actually warrant furnishing a house with top quality stuff. But the last builder I talked to said the client spent about 20k on stuff that would have otherwise costed as much as 75k in the US, despite the more expensive option most likely being an inferior product imported from China.
Seriously, go into any existing furniture store. It is basically rebranded Temu junk at insane prices. The way its going, I’m honestly surprised everyone hasn’t just given up and started using folding ABS plastic everywhere.
This is so…unimpressive?
when a prefab trailer style home is better than local construction (especially those made by mega corporation construction companies)
