JustCause
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I have recently become VERY interested in container ship homes. Seems to be a viable option for me.
This guy is an inspiration: http://www.tincancabin.com/
This guy is an inspiration: http://www.tincancabin.com/
Lifestyle Tin Can Cabin
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Many would laugh at that as it would be way below their standards. Looks like they did a fine job of converting them into a livable home and to think they can tell the country government it not a permanent home (fixed in place) as it looks like it could be moved in just a few days.
JustCause
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I am hearing that remote Nevada real estate sections (a section is 640 acres - 1 square mile) have gone up 50% since the election. Way out of my price range, anyway.
Looking to spend less than $5000 on my dirt - I just want to write a check and be done with it. Price of containers in my area are stupid high, $4000 for a 40' unit.
I am going to spend more on 2 containers than the land will cost!
Now a hypothetical question: buy the container(s) first, or the land first? Price of both seems to be going up regardless of order. If I buy the container first, I can get 90% of the construction done before having the container delivered to the property. But I have a nagging feeling that the property needs to be purchased sooner than later.
Any thoughts?
Looking to spend less than $5000 on my dirt - I just want to write a check and be done with it. Price of containers in my area are stupid high, $4000 for a 40' unit.
I am going to spend more on 2 containers than the land will cost!
Now a hypothetical question: buy the container(s) first, or the land first? Price of both seems to be going up regardless of order. If I buy the container first, I can get 90% of the construction done before having the container delivered to the property. But I have a nagging feeling that the property needs to be purchased sooner than later.
Any thoughts?
Freeholder
This too shall pass.
DD and I are living in what you could call a tin-can cabin -- it's a '71 double-wide, 800 sq. ft., plus a 10'x15' addition. We are blessed in that prior owners had gutted it out -- six inches of insulation in the walls, plus they added some in the ceiling and the floor
They put up all plywood inside instead of sheetrock, and put down a floor made of 2x12's. The floor looks really nice but does have cracks between the boards -- they should have let them dry indoors for a while before fastening them down. On the outside it looks like an old double-wide, but inside it's pretty nice, doesn't look like a mobile home at all. I don't think I can post pictures as I'm on my phone.
There were two advantages to getting this place. One, we got a nice snug little house on an acre and a half (46 miles from town) for $35,000. Two, the property taxes on the house, land, and improvements is about $185 per year. In Oregon. :-)
Kathleen
They put up all plywood inside instead of sheetrock, and put down a floor made of 2x12's. The floor looks really nice but does have cracks between the boards -- they should have let them dry indoors for a while before fastening them down. On the outside it looks like an old double-wide, but inside it's pretty nice, doesn't look like a mobile home at all. I don't think I can post pictures as I'm on my phone.
There were two advantages to getting this place. One, we got a nice snug little house on an acre and a half (46 miles from town) for $35,000. Two, the property taxes on the house, land, and improvements is about $185 per year. In Oregon. :-)
Kathleen
HuntingWolf
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Wouldn't mind doing that, but I would have to leave MI.
They'd never allow it here.
They'd never allow it here.
lonestar09
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I think it's pretty neat. If I did something like it, would need to come up with a way to lower the heat inside of those things