Want to take part in the building of your home, try the Habitat for Humanity.
http://www.sdhfh.org/index.php
If your income is less than half the median income for the area, and you don’t mind putting in 250 hours of volunteer service to help build them, you can get a new home for no money down:
I did HfH volunteer work in the days before my knees started to give out on me. It’s a good way to help restore your faith in the idea of people working for what they want. Many of the people who get homes built through the program keep on volunteering even after they’ve done their committed hours. And HfH has always done income verification because they’re carrying the paper on their mortgages (nobody’s going to buy a 20-year 0% mortgage).
I’m not sure what to make of this video. Having helped build a house in National City, where the wafting scents of Toluene and acetone kept the smokers nervous, a shared parking lot in Vista’s looking pretty good.
Regardless, I’ve saved it to my hard drive so I can go back in ten years to see what the “good old days” looked like from the front seat of a Mercedes.