Hi Fred. It really worked for us. It's been 17 months that we have it and the other day we were commenting that "isn't it amazing that everything looks exactly the same?" lol. No leakage or walls going down. I'd say that the biggest benefit is the amount of time saved during the construction. We hired an engineering company to do it and the container arrived at our land exactly 45 days after signing the contract. A regular construction would easily take 8 months. Another good thing is that we didn't have to deal with the whole construction process. Workers, materials... And we live in São Paulo, which is 3 hours away from our land in the mountains, so that would have been stressing. One more thing: almost zero trash - and you're recycling a used shipping container. Now the money talk: the engineering company did it all and even bought and installed the floor, toilet, sink, shower and outside deck. It was ready to use. We spent around R$ 48.000,00 of Brazilian money which is worth around US$ 15.000,00. I'd say it would cost more in the US because our money values less. But it's something very affordable here considering we now own a house. Sorry for the big reply! Are you considering building yours?