Should you wait for a good deal? Wait till it poops out on you or try and limp it along for as long as you can? The choice to buy a new air conditioner is probably one that you don’t think about until you need to. You check models, sizes, prices, etc… and there are a lot of different variables in play. Time also comes into play. When is a good time to buy an air conditioner?

Inspired by the success of the Hawaii treehouse she built for $11,000, Kristie Wolfe began searching for land to build a “Hobbit”-inspired village. Knowing that there is land to be found for cheap in this country (she bought her Hawaii property for $8000), she began to search the Northwest for sites. “There’s a lot of land everywhere, if you look on craigslist, if you look on zillow, you can find property so it’s not really that there’s not a lot. The issue is with property that’s in my price range- I’m looking for property that’s $10,000 to 20,000- usually there’s a reason why it’s cheap, it’s eit