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[RonMexico]

Bumping my own thread

the lady and I have been thinking long and hard about a tiny house. Please talk me out of building a 20K tiny house over the next two years.

Have you watched Tiny, A Story About Living Small, on Netflix already?

If you build a tiny house, you can spend way more money on land AND have a suitable place to live while you build something bigger. If not a bigger house, than a huge work shop. We're all about container homes.

I'll have to check it out. I like shipping container houses, just looking for something mobile for the first three/five years

[GilpinGuy]

I'll have to check it out. I like shipping container houses, just looking for something mobile for the first three/five years

Why not buy an RV or something if it's a temporary thing? Might even be cheaper than building a tiny house...and bigger. My neighbors lived in their trailer (RV, camping type - not trailer park type - and not fancy at all) for 2 years while they built their house. The trailer was plumbed into their well and septic and they had electric hooked up. Heat/hot water was propane. They even survived the blizzard of 2003 where we got 7' of snow in that RV. Two adults, a baby and 2 small dogs. I don't how somebody didn't loose their mind, but they managed fine.

My folks are moving out here in the spring and already have an RV parked on my property to live in until they find a house to buy. We had an electric meter installed just for their RV (their idea...they could have just used our power). They will be hooked up to my septic system and a simple garden hose gets them water fine. Their heat and hot water will be propane.