>solves your'e $1 million house problem
heh... nothing personnel

Disgusting

>favella tropical :(
>favella temperate :0

The cost of the building itself is usuallly only a tiny fraction of a million dollars house, it’s mostly the land so living like some hick in shipping containers does nothing

>>60743665 (OP)
And they still get excited over piles of cash.

>>60743665 (OP)
>the "foundation"
>pine trees = temperate zone
After 3 winters your "house" will have a 5-10 degree tilt from freeze-thaw.

Every spring you'll be breaking out the bottle jacks and shimming.

But still would prefer this to living in a shitty.

>literally zero insulation on the abomination in the OP
Yeah have fun paying out the ass for heating

>>60743686

Yep it's all about regulation and artificial scarcity. Literally just build, anything, TX/FL/SC are already doing it.

>>60743665 (OP)
honestly seems kinda nice
just need to buy some land

>>60743686
unless you're talking about fucking NYC or something, land is still quite affordable

>>60743840
that guy is retarded. land is always a tiny fraction of a real estate property.

>>60743847
>>60743840

It's actually everything. It's why a cuck shack in LA on 1,000 sq ft of land is $900k and the same shack on an acre in West Virginia is $50k.

>>60743818
You can't tell if they insulated it or not from that picture

>>60743847
>>60743840
This about million dollars house houses you retards, how many of those sit on “affordable” land?

>>60743863
oh i see, you are ESL and don't understand the OP's point at all. cute

>>60743852
>>60743863
I didn't realize million-dollar homes didn't exist outside of NYC and LA

>>60743892

And those tend to be enormous. Do you not get it yet? The housing affordability crisis isn't about the cost to build.

>>60743897
>Do you not get it yet?
Oh you're trolling. LOL so funny dude xD

>>60743904
>>60743904

>nooooo the fact that the same shitty house on the same sized tract of land can vary in cost by millions depending on the exact location it's placed isnt about the location

ohhhh ahahaha yeah im trollen

>>60743912
why are you so desperate to live near some big liberal city anyway, bub. i thought you hated the hustle 'n' bustle

>>60743921

I'm not, I'm speaking from experience, the cost isn't in the house itself

>>60743665 (OP)
Gets torn down by court order for violating building code. Better luck next time goy

>>60743927
I was wrong. Even in LA the land is cheaper than mutli-million dollar homes.

>>60743665 (OP)
>Removes the structural integrity by cutting windows into all the walls
that shit will cave right in on them unless they framed entirely new supports all over, in which case, what was the point of the shipping containers besides being some thin cheap ass metal skin with zero insulation?
>>60743956
>Even in LA the land is cheaper than mutli-million dollar homes
I have a hard time believing this, I'm sure if they had a teardown house, or leveled the building and sold just the land it would probably go for more than 1.6M.
Just looking at land prices, anything over an acre is minimum $4.5M, up to $49M in that area.
Shit like this
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/10060-W-Sunset-Blvd_Los-Angeles_CA_90077_M93669-61610

>>60744661
cool 'cept he has data and u got talkin our ur ass so hush it

>>60744679
Property assessments done by counties are renowned to being inaccurate. In my area they still assess homes at 50% of their value, you'll see the entire property is assessed at 300k and it will be selling for 700k, so it doesn't actually speak to the value of anything.
I'm not even that anon that he was talking to, nigger

>want cheap place to live
>look into container house
>almost as expensive as "real house"
>fuck
>look into camper
>new camper almost as expensive as "real house"
>fuck
>look into prefab trailer house
>almost as expensive as "real house"
>FUCK
>look into building house
>expensive
>look into living in a shed
>expensive
>look into living in a van
>expensive
>look into living in a cave
>expensive
>look into living in a hole in the ground below an outhouse in rural Alabama with only a ham radio as my only possession
>affordable

Keep shittin good buddies, over and out.

>>60743671
i think it's heckin' based and redpilled. i'd get one of these immediately if it was possible. probably hard to get approved most places except Tennessee

>>60743705
>breaking out the bottle jacks and shimming.
Grew up in a house built on piers. It's not really a big deal. Takes only 30 mins or so, if the wife is inside with a bubble level and the knowledge of how to read it.

>>60744714
kek

>>60744714
Reminds me of those articles when they say this person moved to a foreign country and only pays 1600 in rent. I pay less here in America.

>>60744714
>look into container house
>almost as expensive as "real house"
it's not... you can do a container house for like 30k

>>60743705
This
>>60744817
Are your piers just straight up sitting on the ground like the blocks in the OP?
When I've seen houses on piers, the piers sit on concrete piers that a drilled down to frost depth.

>>60743852
The land there is cheap. The issue is getting all the permits to build in CA/NY due to liberal policies

>>60745187
this. artificial delays, forcing you to get engineering and check plans 5 times over. it's all been lobbied by imcumbent land owners to be as fucked up as possible despite the fact they were able to build anything with just a handshake over the plan check counter.

>>60745201
I've had a city reviewer comment on the use of the word 'handicap.' She said it was offensive language and wouldn't approve the plans until that word was replaced with 'accessible.'

>>60745207
Kek so they just did away with those pesky problematic nouns (disabled, handicapped, impaired, differently-abled) and just go straight for adjectives now.

>>60745207
a few years ago i would have thought you were lying but it's almost that bad even in my rural drive through of a town. almost not worth the hassle anymore

>>60745175
Yes. They look a bit different than the ones in OP's pic, but essentially the same thing. It probably helped that we had a porch all the way around, and drainage ditches to funnel running water around the perimeter - that probably helped reduce the amount of ground movement. Also we had skirting around the outside to prevent wind from blowing underneath the house and playing hell with heating/cooling.

>>60744694
Depends on the state, not the county. CA property taxes are reassessed when the property is sold or changes are made to the property. That doesn't mean that land value/improvement value is incorrect because it is not up to date.

Property values in LA are still going to very significantly based on their location. Obviously land with better views or more desirable areas are going to go for more, like ocean front property in Malibu or wherever.

I think its actually pretty easy to figure out whether doing something like this is worth it. Why are prices in places with extremely high prices so high? Not because the buildings are somehow superior, thats obvious, its because its on land that everyone wants to be on.

So you either get to live dirt cheap in a shipping container in the middle of bumfuck nowhere, or your living a shipping container for 800k in NY.
Sounds retarded

>>60743676
yes- Ive dealt with these. Insulation is one of the main issues- fiberglass takes too much space. Spray foam too tight and traps water vapor. These are mold canisters. Waste of time for internet cool points. Just build a wood-framed structure and put metal on the outside for the look of it means that much to you.

>>60745160
Youre wrong. One container alone that is W&WT is $3k. Then shipping, then manipulation on site. $10k just to get two where you want them, just sitt8ng on ground, no foundation. Then need basic septic and water- theres your 30k.

>>60743665 (OP)
This is like hempcrete, adobe houses, earthships and every other fad. If they were so great, why aren't they everywhere? Seems like living in metal boxes used to carry TEMU garbage from China is less than ideal.

Here is a novel idea. Why not just build the shit yourself from H blocks and rebar? It is essentially what normal houses are made from. Economies of scale means that it will always be cheaper.

>>60743840
>land is still quite affordable
No Boomer it isn't. Unless you're looking at Superfund sites or miles from the nearest road it's quite expensive.
T. Land speculator

>>60743665 (OP)
It's already been invented, it's called a "prefab home" and boomers have been building them as far back as the 1930s.

>>60746295

Yep, 3rdies have already shown us what the cheapest efficiencyhouse is: cinderblocks, tin roof.