Possibly building small camp/house on Amite - thoughts and recommendations?

I strongly advise ya get ya a used camper and since ya buying the land poor a slab on it. Since it's close to family you already know it's gona flood the beauty of the camper is with little work you can drag it out of there with the water rising.

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I’m assuming road access to the property?

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Yessir

I'd do that, and build a screened porch off of the pad. It's a lot easier than worrying about flooding every year. You can also have it done much faster

Do this, except use 2 or 3 high cube (I think these are 9'6" tall inside, so the steel on the sides should be about 9 feet) shipping containers put together, side by side. Put a roof over them, cut out the walls between them and use that steel for the roof. Finish the inside like you want.


Containers are cheap, and tough as hell. Two 50' containers will give you 800 square feet inside.
Use 2 inches of closed cell spray foam insulation, and it will be like a yeti cooler inside.

I didn't think about it when I was making the original post, so I am adding now.

These containers are made to stack on top of each other loaded, with up to 20 tons of freight inside, and travel across the ocean on a rocking boat. They're stout.

I don't know how high you need to be, but if you built up a 2 foot pad, removed the wood floor from 2 connected containers, poured a slab inside and around the bottom, then stacked 2 more on top, the floor of your top containers would be over 12 feet high. Use the wood that you pull out the floor for decks and stuff.


I don't know a lot about the rivers down yall's way, but if you don't have much real powerful current when it floods, this might work for you, especially with a bit of reinforcement on the side walls. The bottom containers could be storage or whatever.

Where I live, I can buy 4, almost new containers, for about 10 grand + a delivery charge.
Empty containers aren't all that heavy, I think about 7,000 LBS, so stacking them up, really isn't all that major of a deal.

There are websites, where you can look at what other folks have done with some of these containers. Search for shipping container houses, or shipping container homes.

I have been wanting to do something like that for a few years, I just don't own the right piece of land for it.

If I did something like that, I would want it where people would see it.

I've been wanting to do something with Conex like that as well. I have tons of plans and pictures saved for when I finally pull the trigger.

I think that and also dealing with plumbing, electrical, etc can be a challenge.
I like the affordability and clean slate you could possibly be working with

Costs of converting a container are the same or higher than new build residential.

Would you be interested in barn wood