Tiny Homes

[VenomParticipant 310]

I’ve been looking into these types of homes. They’re cheap and best part is, you don’t have to worry about mortgages.

http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/

I’ve also been looking into small campers.

http://travellitecampers.com/

I’ve also thought about buying a small sailboat once I move out of state.

But, these are definitely good ideas for us MGTOW who don’t need much. The ones that appeal to me the most are the tiny houses because where ever I live, I want to install fiber optics.

[Soldier-MedicParticipant 2566]

Depending upon addons, the small houses would run the same if you were to tie in a piece of property with it.

Are these considered to be mobile homes? If so you are upside down on the value of the home than from the purchase price the split second you take delivery and the house is placed on a foundation.

Like it or not, purchasing real estate is an investment, if the value of your property is to decline, better that it declines because of market forces and not because it is considered to be a trailer.

"I asked you a question. I didn't ask you to repeat what the voices in you head are telling you" ~ Me. ........Yes I'm still angry.

[HitmanParticipant]

[HitmanParticipant]

venom , get this guy’s e-book …awesome material, well worth the price !

[VenomParticipant 310]

@hitman

I haven’t got his ebook yet, but I plan to. I’ve seen quite a few of his videos. I love small homes like his.

@soldier-medic

Sure, buying a home is an investment, but the smaller the home, the smaller the property taxes. Why? Because most people want families. The ones who are PUAs won’t find this of any value either, because they want awesome bachelor pads in apartments/their houses to have lots of women over.

Also, some of these homes count as mobile and some just count as a trailer home. Just depends on how they’re built. Depending if you can get an area that’s not right in the city and build one of these small homes, the cheaper your heating/cooling will be in the winter and summer months as well. It’ll also force you to not build up junk around the place that just keeps you tied down.

[Duke of MangafParticipant 69]

Great stuff. I made all of my money over the last 4 years by working out of the country, saving absolutely as much as I could and then utilizing the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion the IRS gives. Came back the beginning of 2015 and bought the cheapest house I could find on the largest amount of land within my budget. I took out two of the three existing bedrooms and built a garage with an attic for ‘storage’ above the garage. Soon as the building inspection was over, I converted that to an office.

Many states, including mine, give a large property tax break if you rezone to mix resident/agriculture, which I did. I also lucked out when I had the place surveyed. Turned out they shorted my about 3 acres on the sale, but it is still all of the land that I thought was mine and made plans for, and my plan was more about what I was going to do with the land as opposed to being able to tell others I have X amount of land etc. Ended up with a decent 1 bed, no mortgage, and lowered property tax on a beautiful piece of land that I can grow enough food on to sustain myself and barter or sell for most of what I need to live comfortable.

Ive got one more trip back to the Mid East to pay for a wood furnace, solar panels, and a tiny home for an old buddy and fellow MGTOW on the far end of the property. I will throw a waterline off the well, along with electric and heat lines out to him. Raise meat rabbits, chickens, honey and fruit to sell or barter with a neighbor who runs a vineyard up the road, and ash trees which grow to burning size at about 5 years. Any extra space left over, I will grow landscaping trees and shrubs for blue-pillers to hand over to their wives when they give up the McMansions they slaved so hard over lol. The Middle East sucks sometimes, but it sucks a lot less than a harpy wife and a mortgage on a house I cannot go within 1500 feet of. Im not quite there yet, but I can see the light of the existence I’ve always wanted at the end of the tunnel.

[Anonymous 42]

I’m of the opinion that a great house can be quickly constructed using shipping containers. With a saws-all and some chalk, you can draw the windows, doors, and wiring circuits with outlet boxes, then cut them out, and have it prepped in a day. The wiring can be run on the outer steel skin to service all the lighting and outlet boxes. Insulation can be made to the climate’s requirements using sheets of polystyrene with PT siding nailer strips glued and screwed to the exterior, then vinyl siding applied with a vented shingle roof and overhang to top it off.
The number of containers you use, and the configurations are as limited as your imagination! Plus you have the added factor of corrugated steel construction welded together! Hurricane and projectile proof, and if anchored firmly to a concrete foundation with lateral bracing, it would be practically tornado proof! Fire not so much, but that’s any construction loaded with modern furniture and plastics. The interior surfaces could be painted steel or selected lamination. I’ve built allot of s~~~, and TIME is of the essence!
Purchasing your polystyrene could be done at a recycling facility for pennies on the dollar! You can go to any large box store and purchase lightly damaged, or cosmetically blemished building products also cheap, or go to craigs-list and get things for next to nothing or FREE. No man should go through life without a home!
It’s your natural right to seek shelter!
How you do it is entirely up to you!
When selecting property make sure you know the Town or Providences by-laws, many places have made living in a trailer or mobile home for any period of time ILLEGAL!
So don’t just go purchasing some land thinking you can occupy it as if you had RIGHTS or something, those days are long gone! Theirs all kinds of requirements regarding potable water and sewage/septic discharge, many places have made out-houses illegal in their by-laws.
First thing in any land investment is LOOK before you LEAP!

[BeeParticipant 700]

Small house yes. Over priced small trailer no. If you want a trailer, buy a used one on craigslist. But you have to put it somewhere – codes and zoning are a problem.

[TheroniusParticipant 975]

As cool as tiny houses might be, most of them are trailers. I’ve seen people (mostly women or young couples) on TV paying as much or more for one of these little wooden trailers as it would cost to frame and finish a “real” small house. A lot more than getting a pull-out mobile and fixing it up. If you started with an “office trailer” you could save about half the cost right there. Even just buying a used travel trailer could be better as they are much more roadworthy.
One factor in the decision for me would be where the house is going to sit. You usually can’t just plant a homemade trailer anywhere in or around a city unless you have a friend or family member who’ll let you park it in their backyard.. You need sewer or septic, utilities, etc., and there are strict codes in many cities. If you’re going to buy a lot and stick it in the boonies where land is cheap and codes are slack you might as well buy a little old house, or just frame a new one. It would often be cheaper. “Tiny houses” often cost 3 or more time as much per square foot as a regular house. The bigger the house, the cheaper the cost per foot.
Another HUGE factor is resale value. A wooden trailer is not an asset you can finance with a mortgage, and your equity goes down from day 1. On a foundation it’s a cabin.
That being said, I do like some of the space-saving technology that makes tiny houses work. I think it’d be cool to adopt a bunch of that in a modest 1000 or so square foot house. If you know woodworking and stuff you could be damned comfortable. I couldn’t do the 250 sq. ft. thing though. I’m too big to live in a closet. Maybe with a big barn.
Shipping containers are always tempting. A couple to live in and a couple for storage could work out nicely.

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[VenomParticipant 310]

@theronius

Yeah, if all else fails, I’d just end up getting a good studio apartment right in the city. Honestly, the only reason to buy a house is to make it your own and live by your own rules. Otherwise, it just ties you down if you’re the traveling type.

What I’d love to do at the very least is try and find a 2 or 3 bedroom home somewhere in the city and renovate it.

But, tiny houses are really good if you get a plot of land in the country. Only places they would actually work out though because neighborhoods prefer at least a 3 bedroom house in their suburban neighborhoods.

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