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A millennial couple lives debt-free in a house they built by hand in Montana. Now, they're teaching others how to do the same in workshops that cost less than $1,000.

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Daniel and Katherine Ray standing in front of a pile of hay.
Daniel and Katherine Ray run Spiritwood Natural Building, a business that offers workshops teaching people how to build sustainable cob houses.

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A Montana couple spent $20,000 building a 2-bedroom house, and now they're debt-free. There's just one catch: The house is made of clay, sand, and straw.

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A house made from earth and dirt rises from the ground in the distance, behind a lush, green vegetable garden.
The exterior of the completed cob house and the garden.

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A mom spent $41,000 on a rundown cottage and transformed it into an Airbnb rental. Now she's quit her job to run it.

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Ebonn stands in her completed kitchen in a pink stripped shirt and white pants
Ebonn Twilley inside the 85-year-old South Carolina cottage she spent two years renovating into an Airbnb.

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A Tennessee woman turned a millionaire's private 55-acre playground into an Airbnb empire with a replica Noah's ark and a treehouse mansion where guests can stay from $97 a night

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The wooden ark
The Ark rents for $170 a night on Airbnb and sleeps up to four people.

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Brace for a home improvement slump as consumers battle inflation, debt, and pressure on house prices, Home Depot warns

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Shoppers at The Home Depot.

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See how a homeless Detroit man turned a $1,500 house into his dream home over a decade of painstaking work

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Michael and Cynthia Gray.

Michael Gray

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