Here’s an Idea: For $37K, You Can Live in a Shipping Container

Fox News Insider ^ | May 07 2014 2:11PM

[Olog-hai]

For $37,000 you can live in what used to serve as a shipping container. Steve Harrigan reported today on a new out-of-the-box idea that could solve several problems at once. Florida-based New Generation Builders is taking old cargo shipping containers and retrofitting them into dwellings.

To look at one, you might think of a mobile home, but the company’s owner, Steven Sawyer, resents the comparison. He notes that when a hurricane comes through, it levels mobile homes.

But Sawyer says by using corrugated steel and concrete pilings to anchor down each side, his homes will be totally undamaged. …

[Psalm 73]

"....lime is supposed to be like..."

That's OK - I think "lime" worked better....

[ExCTCitizen]

It was too early...

[SamAdams76]

Many people scoff at this but living in a very small house appeals to me - especially as my kids are grown up and have flown the nest.

I'm not talking a trashy place like a converted school bus or run-down trailer. But a very modern small home with high ceilings, skylights, blazing-fast wireless internet, flat-screen against the wall.

In this age of digital media, there is no need for bulky entertainment centers. Just a couple laptops, a tablet or two and tiny speakers mounted on the walls. A small but functional kitchen, we will be going out to eat most nights anyhow. A loft for sleeping (fits two). The main room large enough to have company over but no extra bedrooms to guests to overstay their welcome. Sorry kids but no room for you to move back in. Sorry mother-in-law, but there's a Hampton Inn down the road with reasonable rates if it's too dark to drive home tonight.

[Mich Patriot]

The links at post 4 and 6 are interesting.

[moovova]

Saw one yesterday on the interstate, being transported by a semi. Had a door and two windows on one side...didn’t see the other side. Painted a dark gray. It looked more like a construction site super’s office than a “home”.

[IYAS9YAS]

$37,000? For a shipping container? For that same price you can buy a good quality used diesel truck and a decent 5th wheel that is self-contained.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Lived in them in Iraq, we called them “Chus”

[dfwgator]

I’d rather live in a van down by the river.

[Sherman Logan]

FWIW, one of the main reasons these units are taken out of service is that they eventually start leaking.

[Olog-hai]

The owner of the business in question claims that he refurbishes them rather than insisting on selling an unrefurbished and unconverted container, AFAICS.

The business that the housing idea grew out of, refurbishing shipping containers for conversion into office space, has been around for well over a decade at least.