Posted on 01/05/2015 9:26:47 AM PST by AU72
Edited on 01/05/2015 9:32:12 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
A San Antonio, Texas couple had build a 'tiny house' to commit themselves to 'green living' but the entire home ended up being stolen.
Casey Friday says, "It was depressing, devastating, made me angry and shocked all at the same time."
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We have those here in NH. In the winter people haul them out on the ice. We call them bob houses.
"YOU didn't build that!" - Pres. B.Obama
“150-200K and rental fees forever...not cheap living!”
Looks like cheap living to me. Everything is relative.
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Check reply #41. Sounds like your dream house and life!
Which dissipates the first time somebody doesn't go outside to fart....
yes, relative. But poor people can not pay 200K for a unit and them about 800$ a month for fees and a golf membership to buy as well.( these now often require about 500$ a month in food and drink billing too) Some motor homes get up to almost that price now don’t they? No taxes there either.
I was chucking the libs terms back at them. Lots of my friends live in trailers. Instead of moving somewhere else they add a shed in the back and extend the deck on the front or put walls on the once freestanding carport. A guy can have a pretty nice spacious house without loading tons of mortgage on his head.
I’m sure there are trailer parks all over the country that are not on golf courses so monthly fees would be much less.
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Thank you for pointing that out...
People out here live in mobile homes and other cheap shelters on large acreage with livestock and save money to build a house in place without a bank loan, or lease after selling a home until they find acreage they want to buy-I’m one of those who lease, saving my money, looking for an uncleared property I can selectively groom for livestock and a large garden while keeping it natural.
Most of us here are going Galt and going natural-land and livestock can produce enough to provide for a family if it all goes to hell, and is worth more to a lot of us than a dwelling that you just shovel payments into which produces nothing you can eat-or sell in this bad market-it is all in what you consider important-I don’t criticize where or how someone lives, and I don’t like to hear people do that, either.
A station, a tardis, a church and even a pub: the wackiest sheds in Britain
yes, and I am sure I am supposed to make some remark about “dragging a 50$ bill through them” NO WAY, NOT ME! LOL
Good for you! If I were young I am sure I would choose some alternate lifestyle to my comfortable one started before 1950 and moving on to Florida in the 90’s. The pattern was there and we followed it. I would love a tiny cabin in the mountains...for a while!
funny about trailer parks and the associated ‘trash’ within:
I lived in a ten unit trailer park a while back. seven of the ten trailers were used by military guys and their families.
‘trailer trash’ indeed! you been listening to jim carville too much friend
Just handing back the lib terminology to libs. I don’t live in a trailer but many of my friends do live in trailers, some rather more capacious than my house. Most of the trailers and my house are free and clear. I have not lived in a trailer but my wifw, then two kids, and I once did inhabit a classic school bus for a time and I couldn’t just drive it away if we got tired of the location because the motor was froze up.
Thanks for the clarification. Just about everyone out here starts small, too-with a barn, trailer, portable building, and starts adding rooms, decks/patios-but not until the property is fenced to keep stock from wandering, and deter predators, the garden space game-fenced and netted to keep out deer and birds, etc. I lease the few acre vaca place of an out-of-state owner who can’t afford to use it right now, so it is just rough, basic shelter-till I find a place to purchase and build a nest on-it was not intended for occupation in the winter...
Out in the country, you don’t have a city insisting you have inspections and follow a bunch of rules, so you can take your time, do a lot of work yourself and pay cash. You only have to have your well, septic/plumbing and electrical inspected by the county-most of my customers are people like that, and that is fine-they are decent people, they pay, no matter that it is not much, it keeps body and soul together.
some of them newer trailers are real nice, jacuzzi’s et.al.
just take a hint - next time get a bus with a working motor lol~!
I’m not young-a lot of people my age in cities are retired-something we don’t do in my family. I was brought up on a ranch, and don’t live in cities.
I’m a widow-I can do as I choose-so I’m going back to the way I was raised-I enjoy keeping a natural lifestyle, big garden, some livestock-I’m not changing my work hours in construction, and I’m going to build my own house, with the guys I work with now, and using some really interesting products and techniques I have researched, hoping they perform well so I can convince my customers to use them.
One of the places I intend to buy from is a place called Eco-Smart that is located in Florida-they have suppliers with stuff that makes sense at prices that do, too. No tiny house for me, though-I need a decent kitchen and a garage.
He could have bought a RV for half the price and none of the effort.
That inset doorway lost him a sixth of the footage.
Try climbing up to the “bedroom” with a broken leg. On “Tiny House Hunters” yesterday, they showed a regular sized man trying to squeeze into the shower. He finally made it in but there wasn’t enough room the bar of soap.
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