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.
Luxurious restrooms
Everyone seems to forget how kit houses used to be a thing. They actually still are.
And I’ve stayed in a couple Chinese-made prefab container houses used as cabins. First 3-5 years were OK per the owners. Typically, moving parts, like windows and any taps fail first.
Like the internet just found out about doublewides and singlewides.
Every time I see one of those fucking “tiny house” shows, all I can think is “you live in a singlewide, bitch!”
My tiny country has multiple manufacturers of those, some sell globally. Seems there’s enough demand.
So we solve the housing problem by lowering our standards instead of ending the game played by billionaires with us as pawns?
I’m down. Our standards are their revenue streams. Yeah… let me buy a house in such a way that fucks the current real-estate industry just a little bit. What are they going to do if enough people follow along? If it’s bad enough, they will loose money on their real-estate investments. Hopefully, if it’s really bad, they eventually default while we’re all cozy in our “lower standards.”
I don’t need a big fancy home. I prefer the outdoor air and view anyhow. Not to mention, I’m sure there are passive benefits to not making your home into a den where you can comfortably avoid grass and societal-problems.
Edit: worst case; they ban foreign home kits like they did with Chinese EVs. This won’t happen overnight, though. If we can create a small movement, then we can use its momentum to fight back when the time comes.
Gosh… I just really want to see a bunch of people say “fuck it. We’re going to try building our own sovereign common-welfare infrastructure.” Move somewhere remote, find ways to survive as a community, start off like the Amish if you have to. But, effectively, most importantly, remove yourself from the American consumer market.
That would create a huge fucking tension between your rights as an individual and the big-boys source of income/power. The attention it gets might have more people supporting/joining the community, as a kind of solution they’ve been long looking for.
There would be tradeoffs. I’m willing to bet that those tradeoffs are reasonable though, if you have a sizable enough community. In fact, I’d go as far to bet that people in this remote community would have better health on average than city dwellers. Given the shit food we’re sold, the abundance of calories and sugar, …
That doesn’t even solve anything. Where am I going to put that house? On a parking lot?!
Houses honestly aren’t super expensive. Really it’s the land their on that typically cost! My house is worth less than the half acre plot it’s on. I paid 285k, 160k or so of that is just the land it’s on. So if we take 160 + 25k for the prefab house here + assuming 5k delivery minimum and it needs a slab to sit on is another 10k easy your looking at 200k and change before any utilities are hooked up. Probably 220k before you can think about actually living in it (if u were to put on an equivalent plot as my house is on anyhow) and now you have paid nearly 80% of the money as to have a “real” house. Mind you I have a nice attic for storage and a basement as big as my house for storage and a garage to work in with a driveway. These cheap prefab houses sound awesome and cheap untill you add up what it would take to actually live in it. Sure it could be done cheaper than I have in my bullshit example but just goes to show that of all the things required to use this product, by far the prefab house is the cheapest part of it.
What are you talking about? This is all <brown-persons> fault. They’re stealing all of our <job-I-was-never-going-to-do-in-a-million-years>! We need reverse taxes for billionaires, where the government gives them money instead of them paying taxes, so some of it will finally trickle down to us. And, we need to deport all the <brown-people-whos-country-I-cant-find-on-a-map>. Make America Magic Again!!
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I may not be the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree but I’m not that stupid.
Increasing standards is part of the problem. We think we need more space because we buy too much shit.
People have been living in prefabs for 80 years
I think you know the answer to that
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.
Zoning and permits as well. You just can’t plop it down wherever.
How are they on safety and code compliance? How about offgassing of VOCs and other harmful vapors left over from the manufacturing process?
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What exactly are you remodeling? The walls are paper thin, you have zero idea what building code if any they’re going off of or if it’s even truthful if they tell you. What are you going to sue them in Chinese court for lying? Good luck with that.
Luckily Amazon has free returns. Just drop it off at Kohl’s or Staples.
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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.
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Where I live? Lots of places.
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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
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.
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.
This person buries, trust me.
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.
unground
Like peppercorns before I put them in the pepper mill?
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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.
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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
If it’s interdimensional you probably only need one RV, just outfit them differently in each dimension.
Put your RVs in different locales and use your $100 trillion interdimensional door for cheap travel.
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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.
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Yep, I’ll take care of everything - just head down to the lot and pick it up. Best to go after hours.
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Why not buy local? China isn’t the only place that makes prefab housing.
Why not both? Move to China!
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.
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?
