Selling a House

A house has many parts. The land cannot
be sold. No labor produced it. But the
buildings and the gardens contain many
hours of labor, building, maintaining.

And there are people coming and going
from houses, contributing their part while
they are there. Maybe the house was
abandoned and reclaimed from ruin.

Maybe they are splitting up. Maybe they
are moving far, although that is rare. But if
there is a cohesive group that wants to move,
selling a house is more barter than finance.

A simple exchange of one house for another
is possible, but usually there are many aspects,
exchanged use titles, banked labor, promises
of future labor, all arranged and written down.