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Hammers Thor
2 years ago

This is a very good idea. The other option is of course the “tiny house” idea, especially a tiny house on wheels (ahhh, no additional property taxes). Some great ideas can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/c/livingbig/videos

Mr_Yesterday
Mr_Yesterday
2 years ago
Reply to  Hammers Thor

The tiny house movement is a temporary phenomena and is better suited for urban renewal than anything else. I have however imagined a sort of tiny home trailer park approach where everyone owns a small piece of land and there could be millions of units in rather dense housing, yet everyone would get a little piece of earth and a home, even municipal systems access. However, there is a movement by big corps to fleece and exploit all residential they can get their hands on. Truth is there is no more residential anything, from a financial perspective. Ibuyers have bought millions of units, and what they don’t need they hand over to commercial rental corps and write off the losses. For lease land scenarios especially manufactured home parks are under severe distress as hundreds of these parks have been purchased by big corps over the past few years, doubling if not worse the lot rent and slamming everyone with more modernized quality of unit requirements. Home ownership in America is changing and not for the better. We need i buyer prohibitions and out of country speculator prohibitions immediately. Sadly, it’s going the opposite direction. A tiny home on wheels reads nice on paper but real property ownership absolutely requires land, there is no substitute for owned land.

sneakytails
sneakytails
2 years ago

Many areas require certain square footage as a minimum. Where I live in rural Michigan its a certain number and the vast majority of these small homes would never qualify. Even in more remote areas I have found such restrictions.

Tired of BS
Tired of BS
2 years ago
Reply to  sneakytails

So, do you suggest that a person following some bureaucrat’s mandate takes president over freedom of choice or necessity?

Last edited 2 years ago by Tired of BS
Mr_Yesterday
Mr_Yesterday
2 years ago
Reply to  Tired of BS

Um…. That would be the zoning and municipal building code ordinances, promulgated by the county assessor as well as other various building and land use management persons within the city and county. So yeah, they take prescient. Not president, prescient. So yeah, absolutely, you don’t get to build whatever you want where ever you want, or you get a tear down non compliance order and tough luck for not knowing your local ordinances.

Z-La
Z-La
2 years ago

When do I get to move in? 🙂 It looks lovely (lots of sunlight).

Lawnmore
Lawnmore
2 years ago

We just bought one, 14X 32, 14K$! It’s primary use is going to be a quilting shop, but I have also planned on putting extra family in there. It will need to be finished in side, a wood stove ($) and solar powered lighting, not too expensive! I have been saving up surplus cots over the years, for family as well. We are also using gutted campers for storage sheds (cheap).

We live in rural NW Arkansas, no zoning laws! No laws at all accept don’t shoot your neighbor and of course taxes.

For those in town with a mortgage, get a second one, buy some land free and clear, an unfimished shed and have a retreat, or vacatiom home! When I was young, I camped in our unfinished home for five years, insulation on walls, and ceiling, extention cords and a franklin stove (poor heat).

Ken
Ken
2 years ago

No to the septic system. Cost too much. Better option is a composting toilet. A lot of cruising sailors are using them. A buddy of mine kept one at his river place. They work and don’t require much. Store bought unit can be under$1,ooo.oo. Done right no smell. Empty about once a month for a family of 2-3.

Mr_Yesterday
Mr_Yesterday
2 years ago
Reply to  Ken

I had to google that to learn what a composting toilet is. There are several types and the one is remarkably similar to a well managed septic system. The other self contained units that are portable, gross, no way. There is something very worthwhile about flushing the toilet and having that particular biological matter simply go away… You’re always one wrong move away from disaster, just dig out a traditional outhouse and construct a really great little closet shelter for it, then over the years move it around the property. Otherwise septic is a wise choice because you run the septic tank somewhat downhill or away from your property, where as the composting toilet if going all out true dig in style, requires a closer proximity and then you could also deal with vapor and gas issues. I’d ruin a composting toilet in one sitting, I have no idea what’s coming out of me sometimes. LOL.

Mr_Yesterday
Mr_Yesterday
2 years ago

Well, it’s an idea played out many times in many places across time in America, innovative land use and building structure. I just paid $10k for an ac and furnace here in the city and shoulder approximately $200 cable $200 gas electric $100 water trash sewer bills every single month and that’s before anything else. Those prefab buildings are certainly nice and worthwhile, if your local municipal and land use guidelines allow for additional structure with flexible residents per parcel allowances. I’m in denser suburbia and we’ve also seen many secondary building allowances on 1/5th acre lots getting approved, takes up half their yard, doubles the home sizes. Those price points all in construction are in the hundreds of thousands. Tiny housing won’t save this country but stopping the millions of new migrant residents surging here monthly might help. Enjoy your open spaces, at this pace, they’ll be encroached on soon. Where I’m at every single last remaining undeveloped lot within 50 miles is now built up or in a developing state. An unbroken developed landscape, it never used to be this way.