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>>2988073Where do you shit?
The impediment to tiny homes is land/a place to put them. If you do own land why bother with a tiny home. Assuming land is yours, build a slab on grade 1500 square foot single sloped roof passive solar house, maybe 30 deep by 60 feet long and call it a day.
>>2988085Better example
>>2988085>>2988086Permits. Tiny homes are technically an RV
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>>2988161Where are you cooking food and bathing asshole? All I see is a garage and bedroom.Garages are not helped by being narrow and split up like in the bottom 2 pics. Far better to have 1 large garage with enough space for vehicles + opening doors + tools + storage. What you've created here may satisfy your aesthetic sense but it will disappoint you in reality to live with.
>>2988162It’s an optical illusion; it’s 1200sqft.
>>2988152Where I live, you can't stay in an RV on your own land for more than a couple of months unless there is an existing primary dwelling (insane). So you'd need a person to let you park on their land (where they have a house already) and you would be good to go.
>>2988073getting these things papered is a fucking nightmare desu. I have no idea how I'm going to convince the police and or the DMV to do an in person check in on it, and I cant really easily move it either.
>>2988175thats a shitty lawtons of people where i live own land and live in rvs, tiny homes, camps etc.
>>2988175Thats because its not normal to live in a recreational vehicle full time. There are odd exceptions for it; i've seen it and its always someone who just barely escaped a trailer park who thought their house could go anywhere in the country only to park it and let it deteriorate. Its moronic to live in an RV. >>2988176Don't tell them its a house. Just tell the DMV its a regular trailer. There are no inspections or anything after that. >>2988085You just outlined why the tinyhome craze remained on instagram. Some people actually bought/built them and realized you can't park your trailer anywhere you want to, you need a super duty pickup truck to move it ($50,000+ truck) and electricity or water doesn't just magically come out of the outlet/taps. However they almost make sense as a comparatively inexpensive 'guest house' on your property. At one time you could almost get them for about $25k, tow it and park it on your land and then run an extension cord and garden hose to it and functionally have a decent semi-permanent living quarter that was slightly better/nicer than an RV. >>2988085>>2988086I wonder if living in a relatively small house like that is possible. I like having a big kitchen, a comfy living room, and a cave-like bedroom and I always see stuff like this which is just 1 massive room and not really "for me".
>>2988180Meant to post this as my final point. A small comfy house, little homestead area for gardening/farming.
>>2988181It's where I ended up. I started with considering land plus an RV, the laws made it too challenging. Then I went to passive solar build on land, but development fees were insane (around 100k along with permits). I finally just looked for the shittiest house on the most amount of land and a house that wasn't falling over, and bought that. Took a long time to find it but I have about 6 acres and a very old house. Plan is...>Year 1: observe water and land changes, make house livable >Year 2: move dirt, add waterways and swale on contour. Plant fruit and nut trees >Year 3: barn and shop repairs, green house maybe. Expand to larger animals for fertility It's been really nice.
>>2988180>I wonder if living in a relatively small house like that is possible.there are people (like me) that unfortunately live in 500 sqft apartments desu. it's 1 bedroom at least. my kitchen is about that size, maybe smaller
>>2988183I know, I lived in a studio apartment just after college. I think the room was 12x15. No kitchenette inside, I had to grill on the patio and walk to the main house to cook anything. Comfy, but not a great long term thing. Man does need more than a roof over his bed.
>>2988183Here in the Netherlands I just paid 350k euro for a 500 sqft apartment, feels bad but also comfy I guess
>>2988183>>2988195yeah i would take a smaller home on land over a bigger apartmenti hate not being able to just walk outside and hose off a dirty trash can and worrying about cars and parking stuff like that>>2988182i did the same and ended up finding a real gem of a place, dated and needing a few updates, but liveablefor only not much more than it would have cost to buy and develop bare land
>>2988210Only now has the conversation around development fees started. Basically we are in a housing crisis (Canada) but countiee/towns in the middle of nowhere still ask for 80k plus a per sq/ft cost on plans to build a house. Building is for the richest only. We have a cartel of builders with a slew of number corps making deals on land and heavily subsidized. So- that's why I live in a 150 year old house and not a small passive solar ICF build, which was what I wanted for the same amount of money basically.
>>2988198>bought apartmentShit, that's what I want to get away from lol!
>>2988195>>2988210It's not too bad. We have the space to do some cool things and the average wagey salary here is great despite COL being high, but not as bad as shit like NYC. We've gotten approved for some nice stuff and could buy something in the boonies with our savings, but the real dream is a nearby house that's nice which isn't gonna happen for a while.>>2988198Is this like a condo, where you buy the unit but don't actually own the property it's on? What's the appeal, in your opinion? most of my friends who've done this end up hating it within 4-5 years and get stuck trying to sell it kek
>>2988085I contemplated a tiny house for a brief moment until I realized it's pretty much impossible to even find a tiny parking lot to put it on. Netherlands is not very forgiving despite having a housing crisis.So either you're relegated to a waiting list for a communal plot where you share the land with a bunch of hippies and feminists.But for me, I never really cared so much for a big house to begin with, I just want space around it to garden and tinker. A pipe dream for me.
>>2988249ive always felt condos were the worst of both worlds between renting and owning ..even worse now that the market for them is tankingi almost fell for the meme because i spent the better part of last decade building them, it was tempting to take advantage of preconstruction contractor pricing and flip themglad i took the money and ran instead because id be so mad if i was holding the bag rn
>>2988343They truly are >Can't work on most of your utilities yourself >No making noise >Smell other people's cooking >Spending controlled by the condo board, usually the wealthiest boomers in the building >Building managers get kickback on repairs and maintenance contracts and you pay for it>Every few years some major renovation may be needed and you are required to pay for it>Fluctuating market means you may be left holding onto a depreciating asset It made sense many years ago as part of the "realestate ladder" to eventually go into a detached home, but now fees and corruption make them a poor choice.
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