Tiny Homes

My place is tiny, less than 300sf. I step outside to the patio to change my mind;);) Maggiecat and I live here comfortably, but if I got another kitty, we'd have to add on.

You'd be surprised at how easy it is to live without all that stuff we accumulated all our lives. I still have too much stuff and every year I tell myself that I'll purge more stuff "after the holidays" because it's "winter work". Mmhmm.

A people and a perfectly good kitty fit in here just fine. Two people and a kitty? One would have to go, and it wouldn't be the perfectly good kitty...
 

Aneeda72 said:
Except there have been homeless among us (the human race) since JC, and before JC. Tax payers do not want a solution or there would be a solution. I remember when we went to LA, when I was a child in the 1950s, and there were plenty of homeless street people then. As there are now.

So, your limb is broken, don’t fall into the poop. 😊
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I disagree - tax payers want a solution, it's the people who spend their money who either don't know how to solve the problem, or benefit from not solving it. (the latter, imo)
 
The owner of the first one you posted Jackie did a beautiful job. My grandson and I watched it together and he liked it too. Although tiny house living would not be for me, I'm fascinated by some of the designs, the multi use furnishings and clever use of spaces.
 

Bella said:
I like the idea of tiny house living. I'm not sure if I could pull it off at 400 sq ft. Maybe at 600 sq ft.

I looked into it and there are a few tiny house builders in my state, but the problem is there aren't really any tiny house communities. They're building one in a major city, but it's exclusively for those who are homeless. So, if I want to live in a tiny house, I'd have to move to another state, which I don't want to do. If I wanted to move to Florida, Tennessee, or Georgia, I could find a community. Also, availability in an established community is limited. There are waiting lists to get in.

You can find communities that rent tiny houses or somewhere you can bring or build your own. Also, there's the lease or buy the land thing. I don't like the idea of renting because they can boot you out at any time, or leasing land. I'd rather buy the land.

The video you posted about the tiny community in Oregon is similar to living in a commune. If your tiny house doesn't have an oven or washer/dryer, it's nice to have a communal space where these are available for all to use.

Who knows, maybe before I'm completely decrepit, they'll have tiny house communities in my state where I can also buy the land. I think that affluent communities might be resistant to allowing the building of tiny houses in their area. I don't think I have to explain why. Of course, there are other areas where they could be built. I'm hopeful, but I'm not holding my breath.

Bella ✌️
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Wyoming has, I think, tiny homes communities
 
I could live in 600 sq feet but no smaller. Husband and I have 750 sq feet now in a small apartment. I’ve gotten rid of everything I can except husband and his stuff. Once he and his stuff is gone-600 sq feet would do me just fine.
 
If I had my choice between a 700 sq ft apartment and a 500 sq ft tiny home, I'd take the apartment. I think you'd have more privacy in an apartment. Chances are, people who live in a tiny home probably spend as much time as they can in their yard, so every time you opened your door, someone would see you and want to talk. Yuck. Who the %$#@! wants that?
 
SeniorBen said:
If I had my choice between a 700 sq ft apartment and a 500 sq ft tiny home, I'd take the apartment. I think you'd have more privacy in an apartment. Chances are, people who live in a tiny home probably spend as much time as they can in their yard, so every time you opened your door, someone would see you and want to talk. Yuck. Who the %$#@! wants that?
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I walk several times a day around the apartment complex for health reason and talk to a variety of people and sometimes children who need contact with a “grandmother “ figure. I enjoy those short talks very much.

We are in the ground level apartment, and it’s very noisy from the footsteps, vacuum, and people dropping stuff above us-if they have children it’s really bad. I would prefer a tiny/small single level house with a small yard for our tiny dog.
 
That seaside Oregon tiny home community is based on great community sharing based ideas. The one thing that has become important with mobile homes is not renting the land from a landlord that might sell out to investors likely to jack up land use rents. Better to plunk one down on land one owns or has control over even if that is a HOA. That park will no doubt look less open in a couple decades after its many trees have risen up.

I wonder why over the last couple decades that mobile home parks have been under the threat of predatory investors, why open land property owners have not offered community land plots with developed utilities to those with mobile homes and tiny houses? Reads like a vacuum.

palides2021 said:
As long as you're not sharing your habit with snakes and bears!
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Few to no poisonous snakes in the Sierra Nevada above even mid forest elevations. Black bears rarely an issue away from popular destination or trails. Main issue is insects, especially in season mosquitoes, and less a nuisance ants and flies. That is why modern low weight backpacking tents use mosquito net inner walls with zipper door entries. A rain fly optionally attaches over the netting.
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Ronni said:
We have a tiny house in our property. Ron and one of his daughters built it several years gi so she could live in it for a year to save money to buy a home, which she did. Now we rent it out to another of the kids.

We were going to Airbnb it but the codes here are ridiculously restrictive for airbnbs so renting it month to month works just as well.

We’ve also discussed the idea that if Ron predeceases me, I could live in it rent free and rent out the main house for a lot of
money!
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There is information about what kind of tiny houses are
allowed in your area, indicated on this map called maptiny.com

thousands of tiny home pads listed on this map too
So many people ask where to park their tiny homes....
this should be a handy tool!

this one is a free tool, not a for profit kind of thing.
 

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