Safferis: Venice Beach home build cost under $100,000 using DIY labor
Chris Safferis · The $7K Venice Beach Deal That Made This Chiropractor a Millionaire · Oct 21, 2025 · at 21:28
Investor and chiropractor Chris Safferis recounts expanding his original Venice Beach cottage into a Craftsman home by performing the excavation and construction work himself.
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“I remember I told the building department I was going to build the whole house for under a 100,000, because they wanted to tax me all this, and I'm like, and they laughed at me, and I'm like, you can't laugh at me. I could, that's, I can do, I'm building this house. I can do it, you know, and I just had such conviction, you know, and I think I did it for Under what I said too, funny enough, because I did it all myself with my friends, you know.”
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