Behind the Stays He Spent $500k Building a Massive Airbnb Container Home — Meet The Pacific Bin by Devon Loerop
Meet Devon Loerop, the creator of The Pacific Bin — a luxurious escape made of 5 shipping containers, just an hour outside of Seattle.
Devon grew up in the midwest but was born with a New York City mindset — from the time he was young, he hustled hard, and enjoyed proving people wrong when they said “he couldn’t, shouldn’t, or wouldn’t” do something.
Devon is a mechanical engineer by trade, but after being bored out of his mind during his first job after college, he decided to try his hand as a creative and became obsessed with photography and videography. And, while he didn’t know it at the time, this decision would quite literally change the course of his life.
Tune in to hear the story of how Devon:
- Left the Chicago suburbs and moved to Seattle on a whim
- Invested his entire life savings into Tesla stock at the perfect moment
- Learned how to weld so that he could build a unique Airbnb by himself
- Spent $500,000 building a one-of-a-kind, category-re-defining container home in the Cascade Mountains of Washington
- Grew an Instagram following from 0 to 750k in one year
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