well i got me 11 acres with alot of trees big car sized rocks and even a river on one side. making payments on that but i have also been saving and paying cash to build the home a little at a time. me and my wife just sold our 2300 sqft home and will be staying in a 5th wheel just bought, it will be plugged in next to my parents house until ours is livable. we just bought 2 40ft shipping containers, this will be the main part of the home. they will be spaced 22ft apart and a roof spanned over the whole thing. the center between the containers will be open living space for kitchen, living, dining area. the rest in the containers will be bedrooms, office, bathroom, closets. will be solar electric, 5000 gallon cistern for water buried on hill up from the house for gravity fed system. the front of the home will be done in store front glazing for southface sun. i will use diamond pier pin foundation to hold the whole thing up. a composting toilet with a under home collector unit. heres some pics form sketchup and my own on the land when i had the containers delivered.
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and the new road we had put in so we could use the other side of our land.
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