As I've said before, this attitude suggests a complete change in mindset about the crisis, from believing this to be an aberration, a temporary (even if prolonnged) abnormality that will be "fixed" by God, at which point all of the churches and seminaries and buildings currently appropriated by the Concliarists will be restored to Catholic use.  In each city in the US you'll find one or two, and in the larger ones dozens of churches, many of which cannot be reproduced today for any price.  There's no need for a $50,000,000 "national" seminary when each diocese already has a fine seminary building or even campus, some of which put this new SSPX complex to shame.  This speaks to the fact that the SSPX view this aberrant situation in the Church as the "new normal", where you would have the Tridentine Mass as the "extraordinary rite" alongside the Novus Ordo.

My point about the homes, by the way, was not that SSPX should be doing that, just by way of comparison to the resources that would be drained from the faithful for these absurd projects.  These are about people's egos, and we might as well name the seminary St. Bernard's Seminary in anticipation of the eventual canonization.

As great is it would be for the SSPX to get into the charity business, and start giving brand-new homes to poor people, a similar argument could be made that even if they stuck to building and maintaining CHAPELS, the money could be better spent.

I know that one of those $250,000 family homes you quote could buy PLENTY of chapel for many places. Our "chapel" here is a metal warehouse building 1,200 square feet, 12 foot roof. Even when you include assembly, putting in electrical/plumbing, air conditioning, and misc. "finishing", you could get a lot of chapel space for $100,000.

Long story short, the SSPX was, and should be, in the "mission chapel" or "lifeboat" business. Not building parish CHURCHES, monuments, or anything like that. They should be all about building infrastructure for priests to travel around, stay here or there, say Mass here or there (some chapels larger, some smaller) and serving as many Faithful in the United States as possible. You know, saving souls and keeping the Faith alive. Transmitting the Faith to the next generation via Traditional doctrine, Mass, and sacraments. The only goal of +ABL.

Building $50 million monuments does NOT meet that goal. That suggests a radically different goal (impressing The World, impressing the Modernists in Rome, etc.)

Solving the Crisis in the Church was only ever a nice "extra". If the SSPX could have a hand in it, then great. But all THEY have to do (all WE have to do) is do our duty, keep the Faith, maintain hope, and save our souls. Solving the Crisis is in God's hands alone. He MIGHT make use of us -- but let's put it this way: He can best make use of us if we are faithful to HIM FIRST and put our TRUST IN HIM, not in man, not in marketing corporations, not in numbers, not in money.

Our "chapel" here is a metal warehouse building 1,200 square feet, 12 foot roof.

Looking for part 5 but not seeing it.  Am I missing it somehow?

This is why I think the product of that $50mil greatly failed to meet expectations. I think it is a sort of message or reward for wrong intentions.

There really are so many traditional catholics struggling financially. Maybe that is what will make them saints, but how many will be lost through neglect and no affordable means of transportation to the sacraments?
I'm fine with that. I think a 5 year limit is prudent these days, and I think it is best to not buy something until you can afford it. 5 years just helps you afford it more easily.

"Brother Giles, you need a finance man like me to teach you the esoteric arts of usury."

"Brother Giles, you need a finance man like me to teach you the esoteric arts of usury."