The Future of Moving

Re:The Future of Moving by ghaff on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @09:25AM (#22235816)

So essentially a half-length TEU? The question that comes to my mind is "what are the use cases?" While the concept of loading up a cube and having it transported to a new location has some attractions, there are a lot of situations (apartments, condos) where there really isn't any place to drop off something like that for loading or unloading. (Which would presumably be the advantage over just renting a van or small truck.)

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Re:The Future of Moving by stevenicr on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @03:59AM (#22245137)

The target market it going to be more for people who are moving into homes that have a backyard that can accept and keep a portable storage building.

The usefulness with condos / apartments is much less, and some townhomes / non-attached homes can't fit or have na HOA that would not allow for portable building in backyard - so they would mostly be out for this idea..

however they could use the unit to protect the shipment and then sell or loan to someone else in the area that could use a storage building.

With that in mind, part of my plan is to add siding and have roof options that make this look more like a regular storage building and less like a shipping container, so they fit in more places.

This way they are used for shipping, then also used for storage and can be re-used for shipping or re-sold, etc.

Pricing for regular storage buildings vary, but it seems they are in line with this maybe.. so it might catch on.

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