Spanning about 71.5 sq m, a flat-packed house will arrive move-in ready, complete with a bedroom, kitchen, independent bathroom – and even preinstalled windows.
Spanning about 71.5 sq m, a flat-packed house will arrive move-in ready, complete with a bedroom, kitchen, independent bathroom – and even preinstalled windows.
I don’t think “move-in” ready is accurate if you also need a crane to set the thing up.
And sewer, water, and electricity.
So we solve the housing problem by lowering our standards instead of ending the game played by billionaires with us as pawns?
I think you know the answer to that
If dooms day prepper shows have shown me the cheapest is just buying those shipping container and burying them unground. Now you got a kick ass under ground house and no one will know where you live when society finally collapses from corporate greed.
unground
Like peppercorns before I put them in the pepper mill?
Please don’t. Containers are strong top to bottom for stacking, not side by side for earthworks. Buried alive is a bad prep.
That’s why you gotta bury them sideways, obviously.
They’re toxic and likely covered in lead paint also from my understanding.
Just cover it in asbestos for insulation and to keep the lead away.
How are they on safety and code compliance? How about offgassing of VOCs and other harmful vapors left over from the manufacturing process?
Considering the price difference to a normal capitalist house you can spend the other $275,000 remedying any problems
Good luck getting a bank to give you a $275,000 loan on a house that costs $25,000. You’d also wind up paying $400,000+ for a $25k home (plus land) which isn’t tne wisest decision.
I don’t think you’d actually have to pay another $275,000 to fix those problems. The point was that even if you have to spend more money on fixing them, it’s still gonna be cheaper unless it’s more than that. It’s probably not anywhere near that amount.
I get that it was a sort of tongue-in-cheek comment but it is something to consider if you were to consider buying one of these homes.
Mobile homes are a perfect stand-in for these prefabbed houses and are generally considered bad investments financially but also a pain to work on because they don’t use any of the building standards used in traditional homes. Your toilet or faucet goes out and you can’t just buy one at the store because they’re specially made just for mobile homes meaning you’re going to have to special order and pay 5x the price.
Where in the world are you paying 400k for land
Where I live? Lots of places.
A house of this size would fit comfortably on less than 10k sqft of land. So if 1/4 acre is costing you $400k perhaps don’t try to put this in manhattan
Most towns will outlaw you putting this on a lot. Does that include the cost to ship it? And the United States we can’t get those Chinese electric cars. Doubt we will be allowed one of these.
OK so move out of BC or move to the countryside, got it.
That’s your $275,000 plus interest. When people buy homes they generally don’t have that money available as cash and get it loaned them witn the structure and property as collateral. Therefore they wouldn’t automatically have that money available for remediation of a $25k home without taking out a loan.
lol
I’d rather buy a used RV, probably the same kind of experience too
That’s exactly what I did. Bought a 1964 Shasta Astrodome in good shape for $400, currently gutting it for an upgrade/restore. Solar, composting toilet, updated insulation, modern appliances. It’s enough space for one person, two dogs, two cats, a tortoise, and some chickens outside. Most of what’s going into it is second hand materials from places like the Habitat restore and rv scrapyards. There’s also a lot of folks who buy brand new rvs and immediately strip the built in systems like AC that are inadequate for modern giant rvs but perfect for something this small and then sell them unused for cheap. I’ll probably be $5-$8k total by the end. The real cost is the land ($75-$100k for ~.75 acre in the mountains) and the well. Lots aren’t selling as fast as they used to and I’ve noticed more price drops over the last year.
You’d pay a lot more than 25k for a 750 sq. ft. RV. Quick search suggests RVs typically range from 150-500 sq. ft, so this is 50% bigger than the largest model that range covers.
So you just buy two RVs, park them next to each other, and then cut a hole between them
Tow one with the other, and put an articulated section like with long buses
Install an interdimensional door that just takes you to the other RV
Put your RVs in different locales and use your $100 trillion interdimensional door for cheap travel.
If it’s interdimensional you probably only need one RV, just outfit them differently in each dimension.
Doesn’t sound like I’d pay a lot more, it sounds like they don’t exist. But my point still stands really, I’d still rather take the RV even if it’s smaller
Well…
The Marchi Mobile eleMMent Palazzo Superior (approx. $3 million) is a 45-foot, two-story mobile mansion with a master bedroom, spa-like bathroom, and over 730 square feet of space.
Well I’d definitely rather have that, will you sell me one for 25k?
Yep, I’ll take care of everything - just head down to the lot and pick it up. Best to go after hours.
I’ve seen many of the pre-made homes, some with (at least styled) shipping containers, on AliExpress. Some of them look pretty interesting.
And the human cost of that?
Why not buy local? China isn’t the only place that makes prefab housing.
Because the cheapest manufactured homes in the US are now 100k shipped from the factory.
Inflation in the US (i.e. pure greed) is off the charts. People that think manufactured homes are affordable haven’t looked in 20 years.
