Foster said the couple’s neighbors were also very gracious when it came to the process of converting a series of 8-feet-wide, 40-feet-long and 9½-feet-tall shipping containers into a suburban home.

So, they purchased two “single-use” shipping containers for $5,500 each to build their “dream home” on a $180,000 12.5-acre plot of land they purchased in 2023.

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So, they decided to buy a plot of land for $180,000 in a rural area nearby and have spent $60,000 building their dream home out of two 40-foot shipping containers.