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Podcast: Get Rich Education
Episode: Housing Supply Crisis - Building With Shipping Containers
Description: A shipping container costs less than $5,000. Why doesn't America build more housing with them? Gregg Cohen of JWB Real Estate Capital in Jacksonville, FL reveals how their 18-unit shipping container apartment complex created financial loss. The shipping container apartments are 320 square feet each. Learn about: what a vertically integrated company is, build-to-rent homes, turnkey real estate, the pros and cons of shipping container housing, permitting, and zoning constraints. Making shipping containers livable adds expense: windows, heating, cooling, electricity, water, ventilation and fire safety. JWB blew their budget! $1.3M budget vs...