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In terms of getting the most capture for your buck, it seems like you could just harvest the logs, ship them by rail to an arid area, pile them loosely to facilitate drying, and (optionally) treat them with an anti-fungal agent.

Right, trees provide a buffer. If you can plant faster than the trees are dying, you gain ground.

And as large scale planting projects have shown: planting trees fast and getting them to survive in a cost effective way is a hard problem.

Technically you need to plant trees faster than they rot, not faster than they die.

All the trees that were cut down to built my house are not rotting - that carbon is captured and out of the system until/unless my house is burned down or left to rot.

It's funny to think - right now "green building" tries to minimize the amount of wood in a structure, but are we approaching a future where green building means locking up as much wood product in a structure as possible, to get it out of the carbon cycle?

...can we build houses with them?

Isn't that offset by the fact that trees replicate?