Tiny House Reality Check! Watch This Before Building or Buying One
Tiny House Reality Check! Watch This Before Building or Buying One
If you’re considering building or buying a tiny house, watch this video first! We’re talking about 5 really important things you should consider before you decide to start a tiny house project.
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1) Finances
Tiny houses can be a more affordable housing option than a full-sized house, but there’s more to think about than just the price tag of the actual house.
For example, how much will you have to pay to buy or rent land to put it on? Will you need a loan to buy or build your tiny house?
Will you be building the tiny house yourself or buying from a builder?
Make a long term budget for your tiny house lifestyle, and compare it to a long term budget for your current living situation.
2) Location
We would definitely suggest doing researching and securing a space to put your tiny house before you start building.
If tiny houses are legal where you live, then you should probably have a much easier time finding a place to put your it.
In places where the rules are less clear, you should probably think about having multiple options for locations planned in case things don’t work out at one of the locations.
3) Insurance
Find out if you can get house insurance before you build or buy in case there are specific requirements to qualify your home for a policy.
Maybe your insurance company will only insure a house that was built by a professional, or a house that has some kind of RV certification. Make sure to research this in advance, and find a company (or several) that are willing to insure your tiny house because you don’t want to be stuck with a brand new tiny house that you can’t insure.
4) Climate
Climate can have a huge impact on how you build a tiny house, and how enjoyable it is to live in one.
In warmer climates, tiny houses can overheat pretty easily. How will you keep it cool? In a colder climate, you may spend a lot more of your time indoors. Will it be enough space?
5) Inputs and Outputs
When we live in an apartment or in a house, we don’t often think about where our water and power comes from, or where our waste goes. In a tiny house, you’ll need to plan how you’re going to manage these inputs and outputs.
We hope you found these prompts helpful in your tiny house decision-making process 🙂
Thanks for watching!
Mat & Danielle
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Its on wheels 😀😁
In my county you have to go by all the building codes . electric and septic system.
ANYTHING on wheels DEPRECIATES!
I want to think you both because I didn’t even think about 1/2 of these things
US is the most money centric nation yet that’s the least discussed and that goes from mainstream HGTV or all other channels or influencers…
Thank you very much – very useful information for me to take into account in my current planning stage.
Thanks
ive had my tiny house stolen 😢
Great information thank you!
If your Tiny is a certified RV with RV title, you should be able to park it where ever you can park an RV no?
Sounds simple to me
This info is no longer valid …thanks to our government corruption housing prices are still ridiculous…That’s Bidenomics! Tiny houses are worth more than ever and rising in value not losing…
1:00- wait…WHY would someone who lives in a tiny house need so much outdoor space? That doesn’t make sense.
Really helpful thanks!
I’m having trouble finding info on tiny houses on foundations.
Wry nice. Great job.
Thanks for the tips. I would add that having a tiny house in the middle of the country with no surrounding trees or town might require of lot of heating, especially in areas with strong winds and hard Winters. Can you tell us more about the insulation?
can you complicate this a bit more
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Another lovely informative video. Thank you for the hours that went into making this. Well done.
Hello to You Both. I do not Know much about TinyHM, therefore; everything that you just mentioned abouve is crusial to keep in mind. Thank You foSharing it !!
Am two min’s into your video and you are already answering major questions….thank you!
Omg like fr but I needed to hear that fr thank you
Great summary. The 3 biggest drawbacks are:
1. Tiny homes are more like RVs, and depreciate with time
2. Where to put them
3. If you rent a spot, that adds up too and you won’t have the appreciation value from the land, as people would back when 20-something’s bought a small home and sold it at retirement.
But…compared to renting longterm, may still be a good option.
Yup jus another toy for the rich (maybe not famous) when the regional board is not allowing 5th wheels any other rv to reside in communies like the Sunshine coast.
Yup tiny joints are for Richie Rich on their lots
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One issues with tiny houses is that, without the land ownership, they are basically super nice RVs, which will only depreciate in value as they get older. For better or worse, it is the land ownership under even old or tiny stationary houses which increases in value overtime.
Back in the day, people bought a house mid-20s, lived there 40-50 years, and then sold the land/house…which was often a large part of their retirement funding. Unless there starts to be small land parcels for sale…this won’t happen with tiny houses. Tiny houses may (or may not) save on rent, but without land ownership (which could happen if small lots were for sale) tiny houses only will go down in price every year.
I wanted to build a Tiny house or Build my own camper.. But I read any of these choices whether Tiny Home, RV, Camper all of that..With good maintaince can at most last you 30-40 years. I want to have one of these for longer, like a house would. Is there anything I can do to have it last about 60-100 years without having to replace it due to it just being no good anymore or suitable for a human to live in even with regularly replacing things, cleaning, all basic things you have to do to have it last its maximum time. I understand you still have to do maintenance regularly, But I mean not having to replace the whole camper, RV, Tiny Home because it’s just no good anymore. Or is that not something that can be changed and doable?. Because over time isn’t that just a lot of money down the drain having to buy a new mobile home or build a Tiny house every 20-30 years.
No way a tiny house should be so expensive!
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That was great information. Thank you for sharing.
All of this information DOES NOT ADDRESS but the least pieces of information as if money grows on trees and is NOT thr most inportant piece of information.
Important things to consider when purchasing a tiny home are the location, insurance, finances, climate, and inputs and outputs. Tiny houses are more affordable than a full size house, however if you build it on your own you have to think about the finances that you are putting in it. Location is an important thing to research when looking for tiny homes because in some places it may be illegal. However if you build a tiny home on wheels that may be a loophole.
Considering all the barriers society places to prevent people from living in tiny homes, it indeed might be better to consider nomadic RV life. You could park in Quartzite for six months and find other locations during the rest of the year. Housing in America is deeply monetized and not simply a place to live; it must produce profit, and if you do not own it, the market is squeezing as much profit as it can from common people. It is not a "free" and fair market, because there are zoning regulations favoring McMansions and luxury homes. Codes are not merely for safety now, they are to insure and raise home values — minimum square footage requirements sq, minimum number of parking spaces, setbacks to create expansive lawns etc etc.
Criteria ARE. Thank you for this!
Where can I find a tour of the house at 3:15?
Many tiny houses exceed the weight rating of the trailers they are built on, making them illegal to transport on roadways. Additionally, they may not be built to sustain the types of twisting, vibration and disturbances that are involved in transporting them. In more extreme climates the floors (often overlooked) must be super well insulated in order to maintain plumbing systems and adequate comfort levels.
99% of the time, at least on YT, tiny house = trailer home, which seems to be the source of all problems. Why do you put it on wheels? Necessity or obsession?
I’ve watched video after video and I’ve only seen two or three homes I might consider. All that I liked had a deck and screened porch-which is essential for me. And shade! The boxes in the sun are not appealing at all.
Please see Revelation 14:12 & 18:23,run away from the PCR test, alarming the things people have shown
Great! The next question is will the county allow a tiny home owner to place it on *land* he or she owns, or will they demand all tiny homes be banished to manufactured home or RV parks where tenants are at the mercy of the landowners who may or may not be a corporate hedge fund?
storing rain water 💀
Nothing of use here. Anyone who can’t figure these things out on their own ain’t too bright.
Have ya’ll done a video on the best products? I’ve been keeping notes from videos, but still have questions or doubts. No one has really gone over details. I want a 24′ one level so will be okay with a weaker HVAC than others. Such details are what I am looking for. And, trailer info – axles, how weigh limits work, how or what to do if you want water tanks under the house (built-in)…
How does going 8.5′ wide affect the price compared to going just 8′ wide. Someone said it uses a lot more wood and that there is a lot more measuring involved – yet only one guy out of the 50 videos I’ve watched said this.
Slope of roof and how that affects solar panels, water collection, safety when moving the tiny house (one woman’s house fell over and was a total loss)….
Surprised you didn’t mention the possible difficulty of getting financing, if you’re not able to pay cash outright. Good point on the insurance; not all insurance companies will cover a tiny house, especially if it’s on wheels.
Could you tow one around what are thay like to tow?
Im in the planning process. Ill be parking my tiny house on someone else’s land in exchange for work. So I am learning he can have the power box installed and all we do is hook it up.
Good information. I wish you could speak to the life expectancy of these tiny houses. On going maintenance. Also where would you find used tiny houses for sale
Tiny houses are like "coffin" apartments in NYC or Tokyo. Just another way to skirt around the unaffordable housing problem. And let’s get real, MOST areas in the USA do NOT permit tiny homes. And don’t forget, unless you buy the land (and if you can buy land, why not just buy a REAL, house?) and will still be RENTING. You will be RENTING land. And good luck when there’s a tornado. Or hurricane. Or any real storm.
Where is st Petersburg FL can I buy land and build off grid
A tiny house on wheels is not real property, but personal property. A tiny house on wheels is a trailer. A tiny house on a foundation is a house, and is considered real property. Unless it’s some vintage Airstream or similar trailers generally depreciate, and a mortgage for a trailer is difficult to obtain. I’d bet most people own a car, or some other mode of transportation, before they own a house, so owning a car shouldn’t necessarily be a factor in the size or type of home one owns. As a matter of practicality if your tiny house is on wheels and can move a vehicle capable of towing your home isn’t a bad idea.