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Would you live in a shipping container?
Posted on 8/3/15 at 4:44 pm
Posted on 8/3/15 at 4:44 pm
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Luke Iseman has figured out how to afford the San Francisco Bay area. He lives in a shipping container.
The Wharton School graduate’s 160-square-foot box has a camp stove and a shower made of old boat hulls. It’s one of 11 miniature residences inside a warehouse he leases across the Bay Bridge from the city, where his tenants share communal toilets and a sense of adventure. Legal? No, but he’s eluded code enforcers who rousted what he calls cargotopia from two other sites. If all goes according to plan, he’ll get a startup out of his response to the most expensive U.S. housing market.
“It’s not making us much money yet, but it allows us to live in the Bay Area, which is a feat,” said Iseman, 31, who’s developing a container-house business. “We have an opportunity here to create a new model for urban development that’s more sustainable, more affordable and more enjoyable.”
That’s a towering goal where costs are so high people of average means get inventive or get out. The median rent in June jumped 16 percent from a year earlier in San Francisco to $4,272 and climbed 15 percent to $3,237 in the metro area, Zillow Group Inc. reported Thursday. The median sales price is $1.14 million in the city and $660,000 areawide.
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“This is scalable,” said Williams, 28, a freelance electrical engineer. “I know a guy who has about 12 of these.”
Across the bay, Iseman collects $1,000 a month for each of the 11 structures parked in the 17,000-square-foot warehouse he rents for $9,100. Tenants include a Facebook Inc. engineer, a SolarCity Corp. programmer and a bicycle messenger.
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Posted on 8/3/15 at 4:45 pm to Dire Wolf
If they are done right, no doubt. Looked in to building with them, but crazy arse expensive.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 4:47 pm to fightin tigers
frick no, my first job as a teen I had to regularly unload trucks of boxes into one of these in the louisiana summer, frickers are beyond scorching hot.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 4:49 pm to musick
You mean a mobile oven?
Nah. I'll pass.
Nah. I'll pass.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 4:49 pm to musick
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frickers are beyond scorching hot.
Insulation, it can do wonders. Close cell will give 30R in just 5".
Like these, put in a warehouse and less insulation is needed. No to mention moving from city to city is easy.
This post was edited on 8/3/15 at 4:51 pm
Posted on 8/3/15 at 4:52 pm to fightin tigers
I just posted that reaction based off of my previous experiences with them. I just read the article..I guess it could work out in S.F. and places like that, not sure about the south.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 4:52 pm to musick
If I had good AC then yes if I was young and single. I enjoy trips in my camper and think if I was single without kids I could live in a camper full time especially if I could tow my camper and boat at the same time.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 4:52 pm to fightin tigers
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Looked in to building with them, but crazy arse expensive.
That's what's bizarre. They're supposed to be for "simple" living, but they are twice as expensive as similarly sized conventional houses.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 4:56 pm to Cold Cous Cous
There are options to recycle older canisters. Also, these will last forever with very minimal maintenance.
The cost is equal or less in a lot of markets, rural Louisiana has the advantage of cheap labor and materials. This isn't true everywhere.
Build out cost can be high in this area because no one has the experience so they have to bid high.
The cost is equal or less in a lot of markets, rural Louisiana has the advantage of cheap labor and materials. This isn't true everywhere.
Build out cost can be high in this area because no one has the experience so they have to bid high.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 5:05 pm to Dire Wolf
If I could put it underground, absolutely.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 5:08 pm to Dire Wolf
If it's inside an air conditioned warehouse and doesn't have plumbing, what is so great about it? Why not build them out of plywood? Or better yet, "recycle" some old single wides?
I understand the desire for the shipping containers when burying them (for preppers), because of the heavy steel walls being able to withstand the pressure of the earth. But parking them in a warehouse kind of defeats that purpose.
I understand the desire for the shipping containers when burying them (for preppers), because of the heavy steel walls being able to withstand the pressure of the earth. But parking them in a warehouse kind of defeats that purpose.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 5:14 pm to Dire Wolf
Yes, my wife and I are talking about doing this very thing after graduation. We want to stack them 3-4 high, all facing different directions, huge windows on the ends, spiral staircase in the middle, leading up to a deck on the top (in a mountainous scenic area of course).
I'm a building construction major, so while I won't have experience building them, I'll have the basic resources available to get the job done.
I'm a building construction major, so while I won't have experience building them, I'll have the basic resources available to get the job done.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 5:16 pm to AUbagman
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We want to stack them 3-4 high, all facing different directions, huge windows on the ends, spiral staircase in the middle, leading up to a deck on the top (in a mountainous scenic area of course).
At least 500k if not closer to 1MM for that plan. Seriously, the costs for magazine pics is crazy.
Posted on 8/3/15 at 5:27 pm to fightin tigers
I find that highly unlikely. I'd like to know how you're arriving at these cost figures. There's no way it would cost me, someone with more construction experience than the average person, more to build one of these than a mid-range stick home.
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