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I would get one if only I knew how it all works. Is this how it works; do I get land first and make sure it is zoned for residential or what? It's not like the structure is permanent, right? So a trailer park would also work as it's already set up to make a trailer home function like a "regular permanent home? Then again I don't want to pay the monthly lease of land, so my option is to buy the land set up to be a residential then? I've seen parcel lands going for under $10K. So how then do I get the sewage/plumbing connected when it's through the city? How about electricity. I want to live comfortably and not so much too "off-the-grid". How would you all do this if you had the opportunity to own a shipping container home?
Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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Seems to work for the homeless. But there's a reason they're called "shipping containers".
Yes, they are being used to house the homeless quite often now. The people that use them as a "tiny house" can spend 50-100k outfitting them, sometimes with 2 or 3 joined together, even stacked for 2 story Homes. They won't work at trailer parks, no wheels. Many cities will have regulations preventing them, in fact many cities don't even allow double wide mobile homes.
I do wonder how the plumbing system works and where the waste and sewage go? Must it need to be connected to the municipality? There's some nice shipping containers homes being sold by honomobo.com.
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