I have emigrated to a developing country and I want to build around 10 studio apartments and retire off the rental income. Building is much cheaper than buying existing housing here. What is the most cost efficient design for doing this? I was initially thinking just one long rectangle divided up, but then I would need to purchase more land, whereas if I have 2 stories I have to spend a bit more on construction but I don't need as much landmass, so this probably works out cheaper. I was thinking something like pic related
bricks and concrete are cheap here, so is labor. It doesn't make sense to buy existing housing and building from scratch is the way to go.
have you considered the security situation? You will probably get shaken down by local thugs if you try to do anything
gangs and organised crime aren't really a problem here but there are quite a lot of drunk/mentally ill burglars roaming around. I was thinking of putting up cheap wire fencing and a security sign. Once all the units are occupied I don't think there will be any problems, but empty homes often get robbed so I will need to be alert during the initial stages
I'm going to assume that this isn't a LARP and you actually plan to do this. Lucky for you I'm a university student who just got back from my nightly run around WhiteTopia, USA, and I'm willing to take a stab at the problem. I get to do a design exercise, you get free information.
>What is the most cost-efficient way to build cheap housing units?
This is a difficult problem for which to answer without more exactified information. Even so, some abstract models may be constructed.
In a notional context, cost may be represented as the following.
Total cost = Land cost + Materials cost + (time (d) * daily wage * Number of workers)
Therefore, for protracted spans of construction, the labor cost may be intuitively identified as the preponderant contributor to aggregate cost.
Conclusion 1: Minimize labor costs to the extent possible, but stop short of sacrificing building quality -- i.e., utility.
>Land Utilization and Floor Plan Archetype
Presuming that tenants will desire a window (and are not willing to compromise on this), the most efficient floor plan will be a linear pattern of adjacent units, with a hallway down the middle.
>Single vs. Multi-Story Construction
Multiple floors may reduce the initial investment needed for a desired count of units -- i.e., land area, and therefore the priorly identified Land Cost -- but this will increase the materials cost and necessary labor time. The selection of s multi-floor archetype will introduce the following salient complexities in comparison to a single-floor unit.
1. Subordinate floors must be load-bearing, necessitating steel or concrete structural materials
2. Plumbing will be complicated due to pumping water up a pressure head. Depending on municipal water supply quality, this may require the operation of boost pumps.
3. The ability of tenants to perform ingress and egress of the structure may or may not be a substantial problem depending on how willing they are to climb stairs.
P.S., I've designed rocket engines before (Actual hydrolox ones, gtfo APCP-Black folk).
If you're willing to pay me a reasonable rate, I would be willing to serve as sort of an engineering consultant to your shithole condominium project.
I could do floor plans, structural calculations, material inventories, all tied up in a nice Solidworks assembly. Obviously, I would need to know a bit more.
If you're interested, you can contact me via discord at
https://discord.gg/bDVzq9FE
I would typically give out a more professional mode of contact in this case, but I don't want to post my university or business emails on PrepHole
I cracked this a while ago, take this as an example. Construction costs will be different for brick and cement apartments, much lower costs.
>I'm going to assume that this isn't a LARP and you actually plan to do this
LOL
>I want to build around 10 studio apartments and retire off the rental income
good luck moron, thirdies don't rent
>Building is much cheaper than buying existing housing here
not the case in serbia, we first world now? thirdies rent after all?
>thirdies don’t rent
Well here they do, a vast majority of people in this city rent. I personally know a few landlords and none of them have had any issues.
>not the case in Serbia
I’m not in Serbia, I’m not even in Europe. I have already bought land and built a house for myself here for far less than it would have cost to buy an existing one.
I’m not a LARP. The total budget for this is 100k or so. I don’t see why that’s so unbelievable considering I was upfront about being in a third world country and doing it as cheap as possible. I’m not pretending to be building a theme park or something
>I don’t see why that’s so unbelievable
people here cannot fathom that others can be successful.
>I’m not in Serbia
Obviously, else you'd be building condos in the an extremely narrow 7 floor building on a tiny plot in the city center where there was a 100 year old house.
>I’m not even in Europe.
I could have guessed, still expected they would have less of a "you vill own nothing" mindset than amerisharts and west yuropoors.
>concrete brick construction rebar is the cheapsest and most efficent
If you want everyone to hear each other yes just brick is ideal.
>If you want everyone to hear each other yes just brick is ideal.
Can either put in a cavity and fill it with mineral wool or add a stud wall insulated with mineral wool both sides. Good balance of mass and vibration dampening, just make sure the floor and roof aren't directly to the wall without a dampening material between (and ideally different materials). No good going to the trouble of insulating if the structural materials carry the sound like a piece of string between two cups.
>The total budget for this is 100k or so. I don’t see why that’s so unbelievable
It's unbelievable because you are asking on PrepHole.
Ah yes, the mark of any successful person risking $100k in investment is asking for financial/construction advice on an anonymous anime imageboard where the most popular DIY topics are piss jug management and underground autism bunkers. That's definitely not something a LARPer would do, oh no no.
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1 concrete brick construction rebar is the cheapsest and most efficent,
2 you can increase the efficency by insulating rooms and putting drywall up
3, 2nd story all appartments
1st story is all plumbing electrical
it makes it very easy to fix shit when its under the whole rooms, place water heater and shit here maybe add parking space.
remember 1st class future houses,,, all it means they insulated the thing and sealed it like a bubble, thats it , because you can control tempature, this can easily be done with insulation and good windows
you can also get fricking solar systems very cheap
hire 1 dude and buy all the shit yourself
you can solar the whole thing 30k with probably 10k
also look up shit like grey water system to feed a garden
also look up septic systems
a giant septic will be good for 10 batrhoooms
you can buy water pressure tanks
i would advice you to make it totally independant like i have outlined,
so much tech
also dont listen to rif raf
you can go to mexico and do exaclty what your tryng to do with sucess
sorta like this
1st story plumbing
hot water heater parking
plumbing
electrical just cemtent room
2nd story all appartment
A lot of architects will sell you plans. Take some cheap plans and have your GC build to spec.
Simple as
Here you go, OP. Added security, and extra revenue.
Keep it one story if you can, saves a bunch of money.
And obviously mirror every two studio to save plumbing costs