How's Life Living In a Tiny House?

creditors who moved into a tiny house during the craze a while back how's it going now we bought one to rent out and then we got 30 days notice three days after it was delivered we had to put most of our stuff in storage and the closest lot to where we were was an hour drive away in the middle of nowhere this christmas it will have been a year i am a 17 year old 16 when we moved living with my single mother the concept of living in a loft seemed cool to me and i thought i would enjoy it i didn't and don't i hate it here it may be because i have to drive about an hour to an hour and a half to school each day it may be that i have to drive that distance to be with my friends it may be that our internet at its fastest only allows me to watch youtube in 144p and it doesn't allow me to play video games anymore it may be that i'm just an angsty teenager but i hate i.t living in that close quarters with someone is enough to drive me crazy i can hear her eat sleep sing ugh go to the bathroom ugh just everything it's made me hate my only living relative that's hard to do tl dr don't do it if you have kids you'll drive each other crazy i would recommend two different tiny houses or one big enough to have rooms with doors dang i feel bad for you sincerely i lived in half a shack for years in the oil patch small bedroom small bathroom and a kitchen office living room 10 stroke 10 would live again as long as your shack mate is sane moved into a converted school bus about four years ago it's going great i pay about a quarter of what most of my peers pay to live in the bay area my wife and i love the space we moved after eight months lol to be fair it wasn't really because of the small space 300 square featuring also proper tiny house on wheels with a loft bed kitchen living room bathroom and shower the space was doable it was the lack of small but important luxuries like a functioning kitchen and bathroom a dryer things like that really though we moved because of permits in the freaking compost toilet we sold the tiny house after we realized we'd never be able to pay for a foundation slab permit in septic tank in southern california those each run well over 30 grand so may as well buy a house with that price tag and the cost of the tiny house second don't even bother trying to live in a tiny house with one of those compostable toilets that's what's really made me give up on the experience having to drain the 2 gallon p jar every couple days was my form of heck the smell oh god it warns me also never being able to sit up properly in our loft bedroom try folding clothes hunched over all in all it was an incredible experience and a fun year but i would never in my life move into another tiny house maybe if we were in a populated space with a septic maybe and a real stove and dryer even then nope still wouldn't do it save it for a fun rental vacation type of thing my parents live in a tourist destination and built one to rent out on airbnb they tell me it stays booked up most of the time i stay in it when i go visit them and it's pretty nice for staying a few nights in but i don't think i'd want to live in one full time staying in one while visiting doesn't sound too bad living in one year round i feel like i'd go insane well lived in a shoebox for a while out of necessity it's a dark windowless room that's about the size of three twin beds so you could imagine you've a twin bed with very little storage than a bathroom it's very different than some of the craze where you live on a plot of land or inside a van and have space freedom and fresh air i'd literally feel trapped in a box whenever i go home tbh it's a sad way of living i'd miss a lot of simple essential things like having a fridge or a stove or a place to do laundry or table i end up living one year like this but it really depresses me yes in a way i'd save up a lot in rent but it's not worth it and in reality not frugal at all i end up spend way too much on eating out entertainment and alcohols laundry and not buying bulk due to space restraints wow that's depressing tiny houses usually have a kitchenette at least and some windows i was already living in a tiny house airstream trailer because i was on tour with the circus for several years when the craze first started could not comprehend why people would want to do this things are much better now that i'm off the road i bought my first house a three bedroom on a corner lot and love it my dog can actually run around outside without a leash i have flat walls on which to hang things every one of my earthly possessions doesn't have to fit tetris like into a space under my bed or be velcroed in place for transit i can take showers longer than five minutes i can take baths take it from someone who spent six years living in tiny house conditions professionally it's miserable don't do it the trailer is still parked in my backyard maybe i'll fix it up one day and sell it to my sister who is still fixated on the tiny house movement my wife and i bought a tiny place years ago and it was great for us because it was affordable no way we could have bought a traditional sized place at the time it allowed us to get out of ever increasing rent and build equity and it forced us to live and consequently spend more consciously because of the limited space it was a great financial decision then as tiny houses got trendy they started getting expensive which defeats the entire point i'd still recommend it but only if you're getting in cheap not an expensive bougie boutique tiny space living in a classic tiny house on wheels here i bought the unfinished frame several years back and now live in the finished 170 square featuring including the sleeping loft house there are pros and cons it is not for everyone but the shorter list of pros outweighs the cons for me pros i have a house my own house no matter what i greatly prefer living alone and can for much less than i otherwise could it is plenty of space for one person in minimalist possessions though i've essentially lived in a tent and i'm used to this lifestyle it's cute off and very homey i can airbnb it potentially down the road cons instead of feeling greater freedom i often feel less independent because i need help moving it will probably be living on other people's property for a good while etc sometimes it is a money sink either due to maintenance moving it or expensive uncommon appliances breaking there are all sorts of laws about where you can park it that i generally just ignore it's a pain and major stress to move i would never use it to travel you have to keep things very clean and organized i rent a separate studio for my work and i have a yoga membership in part to have better longer showers which add to any rent since i built it with off-grid in mind it is not equipped to be hooked up to city utilities thus i have to be very thrifty with my water usage so i don't have to fill up my water tank as often we'll eventually change this actually my wife and i and two daughters three and five years old moved into a 40-foot rv for 2.5 years while i attended grad school we wouldn't trade the experience for anything we really had a lot of fun traveling and being outside admittedly our experiment was made much more successful because we were living in monterey ca and the weather and surroundings offered dozens of different activities to do today we do live in a slightly larger than average home up until a few months ago we still spend three four months a year on the road and lived out of our motor home while i worked again we miss these kinds of trips and adventures from our perspective living in tight places is comfortable as long as it is optional if we were forced to live like that it might not be as fun that said my retirement plan includes living part-time in an rv six nine months a year and volunteering in the national park system i look forward to embracing that lifestyle again okay your 2.5 years is my dream also i absolutely love monterrey such a perfect place i lived in a storage pod hut for seven months it was the most glorious life experience ever it was in perrier utah in the middle of grand escalante monument about six miles from the wave 45 minutes from antelope canyon stepping outside was literally stepping out into the canyon landscape i had limited wi-fi 150 millibars daily cap watched movies on vcr and illustrated shirt designs after a hard day's worth of branch work disclaimer bathroom and kitchen with separate buildings kinda like atakoa campground so my story is just a self-indulgent answer then it is answering the post i appreciate your self awareness it's still a thing personally i could easily live in one but the toilet need to be connected to a sewer line the whole composting toilet thing is a deal breaker for me i live in a small studio and i've lived here since 1999 when i was 19. i make more money and could easily move but being single i don't really need the extra space i like living minimal and being debt free debt free is a dream i hope to soon realize it feels like a jail cell i've been in mine for three years now absolutely love it no regrets whatsoever i live in a 200 sq foot house with three cats two dogs and my boyfriend my house and five acres of land are paid off and i don't have any bills life is good when you aren't in debt it's the best decision i ever made i'm so glad i didn't build a big house on my property which is what i was planning on doing the extra space is just not needed which i didn't realize until i moved to the tiny house it's easy to clean and maintain had a friend who was living with his wife in a rent-controlled apartment in midtown manhattan and so he was paying something like 550 a month for a two-bedroom apartment which is insanely low for nyc he and his wife got super into the tiny house craze and so they decided to get rid of most of their non-essentials and moved into a tiny studio apartment the studio apartment cost them two thousand eight hundred dollars a month and so even though they increased their rent by like five hundred percent they decided it was worth it as a big picture move to get rid of non-essentials and to live more modestly the guy ended up knocking up his wife they had a baby tried living in their tiny studio but found it impossible so they had to move out to a two-bedroom apartment where they now pay something like four thousand eight hundred dollars a month so they went from having a 2br apartment for 550 dollars a month to now paying nearly 5 000 months just because they got a little too excited about a trend that guy is an idiot ren controlled multi br apartments are freaking unicorns in manhattan it wasn't a tiny home but it is a very small home we tried to sell it but everyone who to ready complained that it was too small okay you ready for this bulls my sister and her husband are pretty crunchy granola people she uses the word organic leica it's a brand name my sis is one of those big thinkers who is always coming up with a plan for some crap she wants to do with her life her husband is supremely cool and an incredible carpenter dude can build an entire house himself more or less at this point they had three kids under 10 and a small dog they spent 15 k on a huge gooseneck trailer and another 20 k to build a tiny house on it takes them about three years of saturday's weekends to finish always talking about how great it's gonna be etc etc keep in mind it will end up being 185 sqft of living space after it has been furnished with three children and a dog they sold their 3500 sqft home and moved into the tiny house five months later they are buying another regular house because my sister is over it on to the next big thing i mean why are we even talking about tiny homes that's so five months ago your sister sounds like a girl i used to work with i loved following instagram waiting to see the fail because you know i guess i'm in butthole anyway i'm no longer on instagram but every now and then i think no way the family of five made it in the tiny house while cloth diapering and both working zero chance not quite a tiny home but similar my so of almost seven years and i moved into a homemade rv just about two years ago now we built it inside of the old utilitarian box van it's about 20 feet long and eight feet wide we have a queen size bed a tv a microwave a fridge a sink a shower and a toilet built in but there's some pictures in my post history if you feel like digging but we've remodeled this since then i can say with certainty that this is not a lifestyle for everyone if you need a lot of alone time or aren't able to give up amenities like continuous hot running water or unlimited electricity you're gonna have a bad time but in 23 months i've been to 36 states and driven nearly 60k miles we've been to six national parks and literally hundreds of cities plus i do most of my work remotely now so i'm out of the nine-five rat race that i hated so very very much in fact i do most of my work from my bed and it's my favorite thing in the world for us best thing we've ever done no plans to stop anytime soon i had a friend who built and moved into a tiny house and made a documentary based on it it was on netflix for a while and then he spent about three nights there total because the wind was too loud so he lived with his mom and her huge mansion my husband and i bought a 600 square featuring sears built bungalow the mortgage is less than we paid for rent and upkeep and maintenance is extremely low when we were looking at houses my hard rule was we had to buy a house we could afford on one income a year later my husband's company closed we've been here for 13 years and have truly made this tiny house a home i totally get why people living on their own would commit to a tiny house but whenever i saw those episodes on hgtv of rich families purposely building a tiny house for their spouse and teenage kids only to move it to the middle of nowhere for months it just seemed so mean spirited teens need privacy and don't want to live out your weird fantasy anybody here who did this against their will how did it go there's a kid further up who moved with her mum and hated it she said it's too far from her school and friends the wi-fi is crappy and she hates having no privacy and hearing everything her mom does that said sounds like they weren't rich but had to move there from necessity after their other housing fell through i'd like to know does anybody live with a partner in one of these things somewhere you get severe winters like canada or the northern midwest and new england being stuck in the same space as another person and having icy death keeping you inside seems like a special kind of heck to me too tough to just go for a walk or something when things are tense i bought it with some savings in college and my parents gave me some money they had saved to put towards my rent my gf and i lived in it through the remainder of college i found a ranch we could park it on for 150 months i had gotten it at a discount before the craze really took off since i was moving to la and there would be nowhere to park it i decided to sell it i ended up selling it for 12k more than i bought it i just had to wait six months to find the right buyer it was great living in when i had it and i truly miss it we moved into a travel trailer lost jobs couldn't afford tiny house i absolutely love it we are currently planning an actual tiny build for next summer i moved into one three years ago we didn't have the money or borrowing power new to country to buy or build a full house so we built tiny with cash we got married had a son and have half moved into our full-size house on the same site just this month our kids is two and a half we saved frick loads of money so have only a 50 k mortgage on a house worth over 700 k we built ourselves and should be mortgage free by the time i'm 30 husband 35 pretty good for a country with a housing crisis we honed our solar power system and will remain almost entirely solar-powered in the big house too which is cool it was getting tight the last few months with three of us and another on the way but overall was more than worth it plan is to rent it on airbnb and have it free when my family come to visit from overseas a plus would recommend i did a tiny house for just under three years for me it was mostly just a fancy camper though i'd get a location near a national park or such and set up for four or five months on the pro side it was superior in terms of build quality and insulation to fifth wheels and things of that nature on the downside the aerodynamics were lacking and i saw many fifth wheels that had more volume especially with their sliderads out etc in the summers and driving i wished i'd had the fifth wheel but for say wanting to spend a winter up near glacier national park i was glad i have it had neighbors in standard campers who were having issues with things freezing up their heat not keeping up etc i had a nice toasty 72 inside at the end of all that when i was going to settle down i parked it somewhere boring figuring i could save on renting an apartment and it got really old really fast if you're using it as a means to an end to say experience cross-country skiing and wolverine tracking all winter in glacier three months on the coasts in big sur etc the fact it's tiny as frick is not so much of an issue better than a never-ending stream of hotel rooms once you're just parked on the edge of a major metro area doing your thing frick that back in 1996 my dad bought a school bus nd converted it we drove it from texas to oregon where we stayed in it for a summer while he worked as a nps ranger we parked it inside the park where he worked i was five but i thought it was the coolest crap ever we often cooked outside bathed in the stream growing up i loved little house on the prairie which is basically what i got a taste of i still love camping to this day 10 stroke 10 would do again i was just reminiscing early today about the tiny house i lived in it was certainly one of my happier times in life i didn't have enough room in the house to take depression days when your house isn't much bigger than a prison cell getting out is all you can think of and to the contrary i spend way too much of my free time sitting in my larger house somewhere between being exhausted from all the extra work i have to do to afford said house and wanting to get my money worth out of the house not super for depression i'm thinking about getting a tiny place again i'm in a 400 square foot place with my wife and two kids it was always a temporary situation while we build another place been here 14 months initially it was easy but now it's getting difficult i suppose because we are very close to moving and want to be out winter was the hardest when weather meant you couldn't always get outside by now i don't think anyone will see this but i'm currently living in a tiny house in alaska outhouse style no shower washer or dryer i do have a small kitchen with a gas stove top a mini fridge and a sink for dishes and teeth brushing toyo stove for heat there's a 50 gallon water tank in the loft next to my bed so sink is gravity fed and i do have hot water alaskan well water is great it's good for my dog and i to drink i've been in it since last winter it saves me a lot of money i can afford to live alone with just my dog and that's all i've ever wanted if my grandmother didn't live 30 40 minutes from me i'd be paying to use a laundry mat and showering anywhere i could luckily my family is here rent in the city is absolutely insane i couldn't afford to live totally alone in anchorage being in a tiny house forces me to cut down on the things i own which i generally find to be a good thing i don't have problems getting rid of things that don't fit of course i cannot wait to have a toilet a shower a way to do laundry in the closet a game someday i've finally started saving money although it is hard driving a lot with a car payment insurance rent i've run out of bookshelf space and clothes storage but maybe i need to get rid of more of those things technically i never lived in a tiny house but i had very close family who did they were actually on the show tiny house big living and after a year my aunt really wanted to get out of the thing but my uncle loved it so much but as usual the wife is always right and decided to move to an actual house where they are living today my partner and i rent a tiny home approx 400 square feet we have been here for about a year now and we love it we are saving to one day be able to purchase our own home and if we were able to we would buy this one or one just like it both my partner and i have lived in small spaces before growing up so maybe that's why we're kinda used to it i spent half my childhood living in a trailer and my partner moved around to a few different houses as a kid but spent a few years living in a tiny flat above the dairy corner store that her parents owned however living in our tiny home is much different than the small spaces we lived in before i don't see the tiny house movement as being the same as people living in trailers first off most trailers are made from cheap materials and are not optimized for space plus most of them are quite ugly tiny houses are about using quality materials creative spaces and artistic features to make living in a tiny space feel like you're not missing out on anything when we first moved into this tiny house we were most concerned about the kitchen we enjoy cooking and this place only has two stove elements it's gas so not sure if they're still called elements which we had never experienced before and the landlord said it put a lot of people off but think about it when do you ever use more than two stove elements at the same time and even if you do wouldn't it be easy to work around that we have plus we have creative storage spaces for plates and bowls and stuff and it felt good to give away some of the stuff we never used anyway so yeah we love our modern tiny house if you are new to the channel you can subscribe i publish new videos every day until then check another video [Music] bye for now

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Published: Fri Feb 05 2021