Please hurry and read this article series about Berkshire and its leaders while its still online. In this Motley Fool article series, Mr. Buffet has been commenting various matters, but his comments on real estate are especially enlightening. Some ideas:

Real estate values can swing enormously.

Right now they are seeing their residential brokerage business in slowdown all over, most dramatically in the hottest markets.

If people are buying housing for use, market is not swinging much, but when people are buying real estate as an investment, then valuations tend to swing.

High-end residential real estate has bigger valuation bubble than low-end residential real estate.

2004 fewer than 9000 condos were for sale and there were around 2900 transactions per month. Now, there are 30000 condos for sale and less than 2000 transactions per month.

Has anyone ever heard of the theory of supply and demand? When Mr. Buffet is having this kind of thoughts market situation is getting really serious. Maybe it is time for Cinderella move and leaving the real estate dance floor with grace.

It is from year 1972 and under the log siding beats a metallic heart of doublewide trailer. Owner of the trailer is a retired metal worker Gale Spicer. The whole process of converting the trailer into a mobile log home took about four weeks. Mr. Spicer screwed log sidings directly to the metal walls of the trailer. Unexpected benefits include better sound and heat insulation so the mobile log home trailer has better living quality. Mr. Spicer says, “I’ve had people come here taking pictures. Others are going to do it to their trailer. I think we’ve stirred up something.” Article was originally written by Sylvia Anderson and it is called - Rustic way to remake doublewide.

You might remember Luoman Log Homes, a Finnish log home company, which introduced a mobile log home called MobileHome. I suppose Mr. Spicer could have something important to contribute for this Finnish company, after all he does have hands on experience.

This family has generations involved in the running of their log home business. They started with small cabins but have been expanding their product slate into bigger log homes. This warm news article goes through family’s ideas of taking the business into the future.

Logs have been considered to be on the more earth-friendly side of housing industry. Straw bale homes are now taking the lead. Can you believe it – straw! Here is a must read article about combined timber frame and straw bale building. With combined building techniques the hybrid straw house can be built high, without caring about the poor qualities of straw in weight-bearing. In this house, straw is for insulation and timber for weight-bearing. Family that is building this unique house has also some other earth-friendly solutions at use, but you can read all about it over here.

This one is quite fascinating and I think you will get something out of it, especially if you have a habit of browsing through log home magazines. In The Jackson Sun article Nancy is talking about her experiences on this male dominated construction field (yes, log homes are also part of the field). She was working for various companies in the industry, but today she has her own company that specializes on kitchens, called Cottage Cabinets, which you should also check out.

I wrote about the difficulties of KB Home and we all know the mess in which Martha Steward has been. Now these two seem to think that 1+1 is greater than 2. The purpose of this unlikely match is to create Martha Steward-inspired communities throughout the country. Martha will deliver a line of interior and exterior home products and designs. KB Home homebuyers will have these options available exclusively. Amazing, isn’t it? I wonder when we see a match between Jack Wolfskin and some log home manufacturer…

Vicky Sanderson wrote an article for The Star and it turned out to be very nice, you should check it too. It quickly tells the story of Pat Wolfe of Pat Wolfe Log Building School. I don’t want to ruin your reading pleasure by giving out some spoilers so I just stop here.

St. Petersburg Times (no, I am not talking about that Russian city) had an inspirational story of a couple that is going for a dream log home. Alvin and Brenda Magnon are already retired but they have big plans for their coming 4.800-square-foot log home (just think of the sheer size of it).

Alvin and Brenda have chosen Log Home Pioneers to custom-built their dream log home. Tom Hendrickson from Log Home Pioneers says that the building will take at least a year – nobody claimed that it is easy to reach your dreams. Tom started with log homes after noticing strong demand on the field. Now he is delivering six to ten log home dreams a year. In order to read the complete story, click here.

Here is another story of relentless drive that makes log home dreams come true. One man bought a log home kit and he has been trying to get it up all by himself. Progress has been slow, but project is moving on with the little help of good old elbow grease.

Dennis Morris bought his log home kit from Quail Creek Log Homes and he has been getting advice from there during the building process. Moreover, he has been contracting some of the work out. Check out the details over here.

Check out this encouraging story of two men who built log home without any builder experience. It was a long process, well planned and lots of fun (tiring too).

Log home floor plan designing took years, but they had time because they were expecting their stored poplar logs to dry and shrink. Finally the building started. They hired a builder to construct the concrete foundation and block basement, and their families and themselves did the log work.

This article shows us that anyone can do it, but only if there is the will to do it.