Selling metal quonset building?

[Hank11]

I have a metal quonset hut style building, 25X30 and 13 1/2 at the peak. It is in nice shape (about 10 years old) but not really suitable for my needs. I would prefer to sell it and build a conventional building in its place with the features I need.

Can anyone name a place for me to sell this? It can be readily taken apart and reassembled. Is there some place better than Craigslist? I'm in Middle Tennessee.

Thanks in advance.

 

[sleek98]

Facebook market place would be the second place I would list it.

 

[Higgins]

Market Place, in TN will be gone in a flash !!

 

[dwysywd]

Is it disassembled?
who is the mfg?

 

[Pluribus]

Some thoughts about this:

Does your area have permitting (and possible PE engineering) requirements?
Is there literature/manufacturer specs available with anchoring data, snow/wind load, etc?
If there are any damaged parts, are replacements available?

A prospective buyer is either going to have to buy it in place and show up with a crew and equipment to disassemble it, or you're going to have to disassemble it. There are advantages & disadvantages to both buyer & seller, either way. I chuckle when I see ads for these buildings where the materials are piled in the grass/weeds/brush with broken & waterlogged cardboard boxes full of random hardware. My guess is that there are not a whole lot of people willing to take on a project like this.

Based on how you worded the original post, it sounds like keeping the building and constructing another shop is not an option. If you could do that, I'd see it as a better way to go.

 

[zkdiesel]

Under 5 grand
I got a 37x47’pole barn for free....


Buyer needs to take down, nobody wants a random building laying in a pile to rebuild


No design plans/engineered drawings will limit buyers to people
Erecting it illegally. If that’s case it’s almost give it away

 

[Hank11]

It is a Steelmaster and it is standing and full of my stuff! Moved here a year ago and knew I needed more space even after clearing out the old place which was much bigger. I have the original drawings for the building.

I'd want the buyer to take it down and fairly quickly.

I can build another building but don't really want the place looking like a housing development, so would rather not. I like seeing trees and wildlife when I look out the window or walk around outside. My other options are to add on to this metal building or add on to my attached garage. I kinda like the add to my garage idea best and keep the metal building for what it is. SWMBO thinks differently.

 

[930dreamer]

The bus grease monkey is in TN.

 

[readhead]

I get calls often to price taking a building down. I always politely decline. I did one years ago where the customer paid for the building, had me to take it down and erect it at their property. Didn't like the end product and wouldn't pay. After a couple of lawyer letters I got paid.
Around here when someone asks me about a used building I suggest that they not pay anything and offer to remove it for free. And for people trying to sell I tell them the same thing.
People have no idea how much equipment, labor and hauling is required to take one of these down.
It is good that you have the plans but they need to be for the current code year to get a permit.

 

[Hank11]

Around my area permitting is not a problem. Of course in other jurisdictions it will be different. These buildings are assembled very simply and other than a zillion bolts and nuts are just not complicated to work on.

 

[Hank11]

The bus grease monkey is in TN.

I don't get your meaning?

 

[nmk_61802]

Around here when someone asks me about a used building I suggest that they not pay anything and offer to remove it for free. And for people trying to sell I tell them the same thing.

This, what value is in the building materials is lost in the cost of the removal/ relocation.

Your payment is the removal of the building/ materials from your property for no cost. A service that you would generally pay for.

If in pristine condition, a buyer may pay a couple of thousand (1-2), if they have the means and methods to disassemble themselves, on their own schedule.

 

[930dreamer]

I don't get your meaning?

He' bought a piece of property and will be building a shop, might need a smaller storage building.

 

[PWC Repair]

My thoughts:

It's not super large.
It's not super tall.
A couple guys with a rented man lift, corded impact, and some rope can have the sections laying down in a day. Probably apart and loaded on day2.........IF....nothing is inside or around the hut!
Thinking between $1500-$2500 will get it sold and gone pretty quick. Probably better allow the buyer 2 weekends to have it gone.

 

[zkdiesel]

My thoughts:

It's not super large.
It's not super tall.
A couple guys with a rented man lift, corded impact, and some rope can have the sections laying down in a day. Probably apart and loaded on day2.........IF....nothing is inside or around the hut!
Thinking between $1500-$2500 will get it sold and gone pretty quick. Probably better allow the buyer 2 weekends to have it gone.

I would hope so, I took down the building I mentioned above in 1 long day and had loaded on A semi and home by noon the next

 

[PWC Repair]

I would hope so, I took down the building I mentioned above in 1 long day and had loaded on A semi and home by noon the next

Yes but,....your a GJ member. I'm talking about the average Craigslist or Facebook jackleg that's not going to show the first day because of some great aunts cousin that died or some ****. Then show up the following day by himself without the right tools. And by the next weekend finally shows up with a couple friends, some sketchy scaffolding, and a trailer with rotten boards and mismatched tires.

You surely know the type, right??

 

[buzzworth]

I sold a 30 x 100' aluminum prefab chicken barn on Craigslist for $500. It sold in 2 days. It took the farmer all summer to take it down.
It was in sections and he did a good job safely removing it all. When he was done, he asked me if I really wanted the $$$. Yup. I could have sold it for scrap aluminum for more than that.

 

[Hank11]

Thanks for the help so far. I would think the building to be worth about 60-70% of new, so the dollar amounts being batted around are disappointing. May give Facebook Market place a go anyway. Or may just keep it.

Could not find bus grease monkey, but if anyone thinks he might be interested point him to this thread.

Thanks again.

 

[Farmall450]

I sold a 30 x 100' aluminum prefab chicken barn on Craigslist for $500. It sold in 2 days. It took the farmer all summer to take it down.
It was in sections and he did a good job safely removing it all. When he was done, he asked me if I really wanted the $$$. Yup. I could have sold it for scrap aluminum for more than that.

You didn't have him pay upfront?

 

[zkdiesel]

Thanks for the help so far. I would think the building to be worth about 60-70% of new, so the dollar amounts being batted around are disappointing. May give Facebook Market place a go anyway. Or may just keep it.

Could not find bus grease monkey, but if anyone thinks he might be interested point him to this thread.

Thanks again.

It’s worth a 1/3 rd of new at very most

70%. **** sell me a new one with all new hardware and have it delivered to me then!

Your dreaming
Keep it or move it to another part of your property

 

[Hank11]

It’s worth a 1/3 rd of new at very most

70%. **** sell me a new one with all new hardware and have it delivered to me then!

Your dreaming
Keep it or move it to another part of your property

You from Chicago?
I can tell.

 

[ace10]

Thanks for the help so far. I would think the building to be worth about 60-70% of new, so the dollar amounts being batted around are disappointing. May give Facebook Market place a go anyway. Or may just keep it.

Could not find bus grease monkey, but if anyone thinks he might be interested point him to this thread.

Thanks again.

Something that has seen significant use and requires significant labor in order to disassemble and transport away is not worth anything approaching 2/3rds of what it would cost new.

No way. No how.

I honestly don't even understand how you would think that's the case.

If I had something like that on my property and wanted it gone, I'd call the scrapper for a quote and then go from there.

 

[Farmall450]

Something that has seen significant use and requires significant labor in order to disassemble and transport away is not worth anything approaching 2/3rds of what it would cost new.

No way. No how.

I honestly don't even understand how you would think that's the case.

If I had something like that on my property and wanted it gone, I'd call the scrapper for a quote and then go from there.

This isn't a car trailer or something. Agreed that you'd be silly to think it's worth more than 1/3 new.

 

[kwb]

Free or nearly free is the going rate for a building to be removed. Unless it is a higher value material as scrap - like Aluminum.

60-70% I think we know what you are smoking.

 

[zkdiesel]

Free or nearly free is the going rate for a building to be removed. Unless it is a higher value material as scrap - like Aluminum.

60-70% I think we know what you are smoking.

Yep. I was given this! Didn’t know person, friend of a friend of a friend, and I was still first person to even take it for free! Way more value and for a good crew about equal work with less chance of leaks!
1 day disassembly

 

[rburke65]

A lot of labor to take a building down piece by piece, saving everything and not damaging parts..loading..transporting. T(en the reverse process...

 

[Cobra5150]

...... I would think the building to be worth about 60-70% of new, so the dollar amounts being batted around are disappointing. .......

The amounts may be disappointing but I think they're realistic. You've had several first hand accounts of free or next to free buildings bought and sold. If you can get it off your property for free or at most a grand you should be happy.

BTW, I'm originally from Tennessee.

 

[mike93lx]

No way I would let a couple random people disassemble a building on my property without their own insurance.

Any small amount of money you net out of that deal would be wiped out ten fold if someone gets injured.

IMO, put the new building up and either pay someone to disassemble the building or do it yourself. Then sell it

 

[zkdiesel]

No way I would let a couple random people disassemble a building on my property without their own insurance.

Any small amount of money you net out of that deal would be wiped out ten fold if someone gets injured.

IMO, put the new building up and either pay someone to disassemble the building or do it yourself. Then sell it

Nobody will buy a used disassembled building for fear that shits missing or damaged

 

[readhead]

It is best for whoever is going to erect the building to take it apart and mark everything so they know how to put it back together.

 

[mike93lx]

Nobody will buy a used disassembled building for fear that shits missing or damaged

There is a buyer out there for everything.

But it would probably end up in a scrap yard

 

[SaltH2OHokie]

I purchased a delivered, but never assembled Quonset hut (30x50) for about 60% of invoice cost. The 40% discount in my opinion was to account for wear-tear of delivery/unloading twice, potential for lost hardware/pieces, plans drawn for another locality (that turned out to be a problem for me), etc.

I ended up never assembling it based on the plans issue, and managed to sell it again for exactly what I paid for it. So I'd say that's a fair assessment of going rate of a dissembled, but basically still banded to pallets Quonset hut.

I'm thinking that places value of an assembled/still standing building at pretty low. BUT that "right guy/gal" might be out there that's looking for just what you've got and has the time/resources to take it down and transport it without feeling like they're "out" too much. Never know. Can always post for sale at what you think is a fair price and see what kind of response you get. No real harm.

 

[finn]

Offerto pay someone $1000 to disassemble it and haul it away. It literally is a liability to you and your property at this point, and will cost you cash to have it removes at your timeline.

Why would anyone in their right mind agree to pay you anything at all to expend the time and effort to clear your property of a building?

 

[Rst277]

1. Best option is to keep it. It's already there. Great storage for mower, etc. You can always landscape around it to hide or improve the view.

2. To get any money for it, you'll have to disassemble, label, organize all the pieces and convince a buyer that everything is there and that they'll be able to reassemble it correctly.

3. The worst scenario is to give it away. As many have said, free things attract the bottom feeders of society. You will spend more time responding to calls, having people not show up, strangers on your property, garbage left behind and having it half taken down for months.

4. The easiest path is to determine a fair cost for labour and equipment to remove it and pay a guy to do it. He will hope to sell it and he'll show up and get it done because his expenses are covered. This is what I do. People think the garage or sunroom they want removed has value but the labour out weighs any type of resale value. "there's lots of good wood in there" Yup, but I can buy 2x4s by the pallet in 5 minutes, why would I **** around with this for 2 days?

Ralph in Winnipeg

 

[Hank11]

Anyone who could not take a few pictures of this thing, take it apart and then reassemble doesn't need a garage - they would not have enough sense to own any mechanical device that would be stored in a garage.

The arches are made of 7 pieces, bolted together. No frame, just pressed steel panels. Each arch is symmetrical with a top piece and then 3 pieces on each side. The arches then bolt together. There is a connector frame that bolts to the foundation. And a zillion nuts and bolts, all the same.

Anyway, I appreciate all the comments.
Thnaks!

 

[mike93lx]

Anyone who could not take a few pictures of this thing, take it apart and then reassemble doesn't need a garage - they would not have enough sense to own any mechanical device that would be stored in a garage.

The arches are made of 7 pieces, bolted together. No frame, just pressed steel panels. Each arch is symmetrical with a top piece and then 3 pieces on each side. The arches then bolt together. There is a connector frame that bolts to the foundation. And a zillion nuts and bolts, all the same.

Anyway, I appreciate all the comments.
Thnaks!

So someone that can't place an arch and work at height doesn't deserve a garage? Got it.

Everyone that has a garage is a mechanic and/or does their own mechanical work? Got it.

Here I was thinking that people did other stuff in their garages, like detailing, wood working, painting and other stuff. Guess I was wrong.

 

[csp]

So someone that can't place an arch and work at height doesn't deserve a garage? Got it.

Everyone that has a garage is a mechanic and/or does their own mechanical work? Got it.

Here I was thinking that people did other stuff in their garages, like detailing, wood working, painting and other stuff. Guess I was wrong.

Wow, way to take something out of context and turn it into something else.

The point you missed is the construction of a quonset is stupid simple. They are much easier to assemble than many other types of construction and would be much easier to dismantle without having to know the exact placement of each and every part to get it back together successfully.

 

[Kev442]

As the OP has stated, these quonset huts do not take a genius to assemble, or much equipment.
https://www.steelmasterusa.com/quonset-huts/kits/

That being said, getting 70% of new would only be possible if OP was out there helping them the whole time as free labor. In reality I think 50% is more likely even with helping.

 

[mike93lx]

Wow, way to take something out of context and turn it into something else.

The point you missed is the construction of a quonset is stupid simple. They are much easier to assemble than many other types of construction and would be much easier to dismantle without having to know the exact placement of each and every part to get it back together successfully.

It doesn't matter how technically simple building a quonset hut is.

Changing oil is very simple too. Many, many people don't do it themselves, so they don't deserve to own a car

 

[csp]

It doesn't matter how technically simple building a quonset hut is.

Changing oil is very simple too. Many, many people don't do it themselves, so they don't deserve to own a car

Again, way to turn a comment into something that actually wasn't said. :facepalm: