Re: Cave home for sale in Mo.

[MissouriFree]

Out of my range to but that is really neat..

mofree

[rivahmom]

I don't want it. Too much space to keep clean.

[SciFiChick]

You have to love the waterfalls on the property!

[rantinraven]

Guest,

I agree with everyone here its out of m price range but I looked at about 500 pics on their external site. Man that place is a beauty! Skip over the pic where the owner almost lost his finger due to nail gun... I lost my lunch!

[CarolAnn]

What an amazing place! Thanks for posting that, Guest - and also the link to the interior pictures. (Although they really could have organized their photos better!) Still - for 300K, that's fairly cheap for what's there.

When I lived in Dallas 30 years ago, you would pay a lot more than that for a crummy 2-bedroom bungalo in some neighborhoods. I shudder to think how expensive they got during the real estate bubble that recently burst!

I recently Googled "Cave homes" and discovered that in Spain there's an area with hundreds of them for sale. They're dug out of the soft rock and some are ancient. Some were used as animal housing, some for transient labor housing. Now they're selling them (manure and all) to Brits who make them over into summer homes.

It seems wrong to change a natural cave into a house (or skating rink for that matter,) but now digging it out of the rock . . . that's kind of neat!

[MissouriFree]

I don't want it. *Too much space to keep clean. *

Yeah but no gutters clean in the fall,,an what a hide out for the gang after the latest stage coach job.

[MrGreenJeans]

Awesome and beautiful use of natural structure. That,s all i gota say.

[Bones]

All I can say is Festus is awful close to an Earthquake fault. Like right on top of it.
I know they say you are safer in the ground than on top but seems to me with all that shaking a cave which has natural crack in the walls anyway might cause a collapse. Has anybody ever been in a cave during an earthquake that can verify any of this.

[CarolAnn]

Bones, I've been on about 15 tours through Blanchard Springs Caverns (I LOVE that place!) They aren't too far from the Madrid fault. The tour guide said that the very long, fine soda straw formations are a good indication that a cave is stable. (Blanchard has lots of those.) The guide also said it's safer to be in the ground than on it, as the closer you are to the point that's shaking, the less shaking is going on, like a ripple in water that gets larger as it goes out. Still, I don't ever want to be the one to test that theory!! :o

[Bones]

Okay so if I throw I stick of dynamite in the water do you want to be closer to the beginning of the ripple or at the edge of that ripple?
And I don't want to have to test that theory either at least on top of the ground I fall down and if my house fall on me I think my chances are better of getting out then if my cave house falls on me. Not to say if the price was cheaper I wouldn't consider buying it. Heck of a commute to work (near Memphis) but what a weekend home!!!

[kaijafon]

I lived in CA for many years, up in the Sierra Nevada's, there was a cave with an underground lake. It was pretty big. This cave survived literally thousands of earthquakes for thousands of years.

it took only one year of punks going up there and shooting in the cave to collapse it.

No one has bothered to dig it out to see if the "whole thing" is gone; or just the entrance. I hope it was just the entrance area. Beauty like that doesn't need to be bothered by jerks.

[DavidOH]

Looks like they get to keep it now:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/1469396,w-cave-missouri-mortgage031009.article