Anonymous wrote:Minisplits (awesome)
Kitchenette (great)
En-suite bathroom (sounds good)

Yes please. That does not really look too shabby.

The company making them has been in business for 10 years and usually makes standalone homes.

https://www.customcontainerliving.com/residential/

How will be the housing community be laid out?
Each unit will be two floors tall (see: Maroon Village rendering). Each floor will consist of two suites for a total of four rooms (2 rooms per suite).

There will be a common room that is the size of one, single-story unit. The common room will offer a TV screen, seating, and kitchenette complete with refrigerator, microwave and sink.

Three laundry rooms with a total of 12 washers and 12 dryers will be included. Each laundry room will be the size of one suite. Units will be arranged around a central courtyard with open green space.

Anonymous wrote:They sure don’t want to tell you much about the bathrooms. It appears that each dorm room has its own sink and then each suite (2, 2-person dorm rooms) has a jack-and-jill bathroom in the middle that only contains one toilet, one shower and no sinks.

That's luxury compared to my dorm in the 90s. A whole floor shared a coed bathroom of about 5 toilets, 3 showers. And of course the toilets were in that assembled gap style with huge gaps.

Minisplits (awesome)
Kitchenette (great)
En-suite bathroom (sounds good)

They look nicer than some of the hole-in-the-wall apartments people lived in back in our day!

Are the external doors safe?

They sure don’t want to tell you much about the bathrooms. It appears that each dorm room has its own sink and then each suite (2, 2-person dorm rooms) has a jack-and-jill bathroom in the middle that only contains one toilet, one shower and no sinks.

So would these topple over when 100 kids squeeze in for a party?

Anonymous wrote:yes, if it was at a school they wanted to attend and there wasn't a specific reason why not (like it wasn't up to fire code or was inacessible to my kid's disability).

+1 why not? Dorm rooms don't have to be palaces. Just somewhere safe to sleep.

Nah, considering trailer made for occupancy can have toxins, I would not want to live in a used shipping container made from who knows what and shipped filled with whatever.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/katrina-rita-victims-get-426m-in-toxic-fema-trailer-suit/

Anonymous wrote:It's the cool micro housing thing to do

My town has two permanent family homes made out of shipping containers.

And my friend was looking into building a vacation home out of them in Costa Rica.

College students don't care what their walls are made of.

Anonymous wrote:No…not with the rise in natural disasters. A tornado would rip that to shreds

*extreme weather

No…not with the rise in natural disasters. A tornado would rip that to shreds

Meh, I wouldn’t want to live there, but I’d leave it up to my adult child to choose.

Sign me up! Sounds cool. My DS would love this.