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<blockquote data-quote="HoLeChit" data-source="post: 3601456" data-attributes="member: 35036"><p>So I’m a few months I’ll be moving from my home, renting it out, and moving into the old lady’s rent house so that we can fix it up. Hopefully in 2-3 years we’ll have it finished and enough cash to buy a decent acreage, where we will custom build and go back to renting her place out. We’ll be downsizing about 300sqft and we will need to expand our storage unit size to make the living situation comfortable. Right now I have a 10x15 storage unit that is full. Looking at storage units in the area we are moving has shown that upgrades on space are going to be expensive, to the tune of 180-250/month.</p><p></p><p>So I thought, why not buy a shipping container? For the same cost (or less) of renting a storage unit I can own my own storage that I can move around; and eventually be on our land, possibly incorporated into my future shop. I looked into those prefab sheds, but they’re even more expensive than shipping containers or a storage unit, and harder to move. I don’t wanna spend a couple grand on a shed only to leave it at the rent house. Maybe a pair of 20 footers, or a 40 footer. I’m considering dropping the containers on my mom’s land, she has a couple acres outside the city. I don’t know that I can actually get them into the back yard of the now rent house, given the lack of space between houses/trees on the side of the house.</p><p></p><p>Thoughts? Has anyone done this? Can I just set the storage containers down on the ground, or should I put down some sort of a base? Gravel? Railroad ties? Concrete piers on the corners? Do I need to worry about settling/sinking? Any good local sources for containers that deliver?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HoLeChit, post: 3601456, member: 35036"] So I’m a few months I’ll be moving from my home, renting it out, and moving into the old lady’s rent house so that we can fix it up. Hopefully in 2-3 years we’ll have it finished and enough cash to buy a decent acreage, where we will custom build and go back to renting her place out. We’ll be downsizing about 300sqft and we will need to expand our storage unit size to make the living situation comfortable. Right now I have a 10x15 storage unit that is full. Looking at storage units in the area we are moving has shown that upgrades on space are going to be expensive, to the tune of 180-250/month. So I thought, why not buy a shipping container? For the same cost (or less) of renting a storage unit I can own my own storage that I can move around; and eventually be on our land, possibly incorporated into my future shop. I looked into those prefab sheds, but they’re even more expensive than shipping containers or a storage unit, and harder to move. I don’t wanna spend a couple grand on a shed only to leave it at the rent house. Maybe a pair of 20 footers, or a 40 footer. I’m considering dropping the containers on my mom’s land, she has a couple acres outside the city. I don’t know that I can actually get them into the back yard of the now rent house, given the lack of space between houses/trees on the side of the house. Thoughts? Has anyone done this? Can I just set the storage containers down on the ground, or should I put down some sort of a base? Gravel? Railroad ties? Concrete piers on the corners? Do I need to worry about settling/sinking? Any good local sources for containers that deliver? [/QUOTE]
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