Tiny house this guy built w/ GF for $24K US including renting land

Maestro · 02-26-2018, 02:48 PM

The big advantage of a tiny house as long as it is on wheels is property tax, if you live in an area with high property tax, putting a tiny house with wheel allows you to live there an not pay property tax on the house, only the land, and usually land taxes are very low until you put a permeant structure on the land. This is like those people who built floating homes on the rivers in Oregon and Washington, there is currently no tax law on the books to allow those types of homes to be tax like a regular home attached to the ground.

P1 · 02-26-2018, 02:55 PM

I have a brother in law who lives in a tiny house also. He just refers to it as a "single wide" though.

P1 · 02-26-2018, 02:56 PM

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A HS friend is living in a tiny house parked in the yard of another HS friend’s place. He didn’t build it himself but does live in it. Very cool idea. Guy’s got a Tesla S, a pickup truck, a beater Honda Civic parked in front along with a few hundred thousands in the bank (bought a condo during rh crash, sold it recently during uprise and moved into a tiny house). He’s also making $150-200k a year with his new job. Very smart guy and extremely focused and efficient. Pretty inspirational if you ask me.

What's the inspirational part? Only thing I can see is buying a condo in a market downturn and then selling it for a higher price.

RickFLM4 · 02-26-2018, 03:06 PM

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A HS friend is living in a tiny house parked in the yard of another HS friendÂ’s place. He didnÂ’t build it himself but does live in it. Very cool idea. GuyÂ’s got a Tesla S, a pickup truck, a beater Honda Civic parked in front along with a few hundred thousands in the bank (bought a condo during rh crash, sold it recently during uprise and moved into a tiny house). HeÂ’s also making $150-200k a year with his new job. Very smart guy and extremely focused and efficient. Pretty inspirational if you ask me.

What's the inspirational part? Only thing I can see is buying a condo in a market downturn and then selling it for a higher price.

Scratch my head about living in tiny house but spending money on Model S...

Lups · 02-26-2018, 03:14 PM

You got six dining room sets? No? Stfu then. This home is my dream.

dreamingat30fps · 02-26-2018, 03:19 PM

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You got six dining room sets? No? Stfu then. This home is my dream.

I got one, can probably count on one hand how many times I've used it in the 6+ years I've lived here.

Lups · 02-26-2018, 03:31 PM

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I got one, can probably count on one hand how many times I've used it in the 6+ years I've lived here.

Lol, I'm European! We eat all our meals together when ever we can, and that's at least two meals per day.

My family keeps dying on me and I keep inheriting their stuff. Because were Europeans, all their stuff is old and a part of family history so I better start adopting kids to get a tiny house one day

Pm me if you have extra kids!

dreamingat30fps · 02-26-2018, 03:42 PM

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Lol, I'm European! We eat all our meals together when ever we can, and that's at least two meals per day.

My family keeps dying on me and I keep inheriting their stuff. Because were Europeans, all their stuff is old and a part of family history so I better start adopting kids to get a tiny house one day

Pm me if you have extra kids!

It's only me and my gf we eat on the couch... watching TV... fork in one hand remote in the other, the way god intended. MERICAA!!!!!

Lups · 02-26-2018, 04:09 PM

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It's only me and my gf we eat on the couch... watching TV... fork in one hand remote in the other, the way god intended. MERICAA!!!!!

Yeah. Not around here you would.

BMW F22 · 02-26-2018, 04:21 PM

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What's the inspirational part? Only thing I can see is buying a condo in a market downturn and then selling it for a higher price.

His thinking is different and he is very focused. Left a cushy job because he wasn’t happy and completely turned his life around.

BMW F22 · 02-26-2018, 04:24 PM

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Scratch my head about living in tiny house but spending money on Model S...

Not sure about that one either. Perhaps he got a good deal on a lease and is able to write it off? Who knows.

P1 · 02-26-2018, 04:27 PM

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His thinking is different and he is very focused. Left a cushy job because he wasn’t happy and completely turned his life around.

I just don't get the whole "living in a trailer parked at my buddy's house with three cars out front" mentality. But hey, to each their own.

BMW F22 · 02-26-2018, 04:29 PM

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His thinking is different and he is very focused. Left a cushy job because he wasnÂ’t happy and completely turned his life around.

I just don't get the whole "living in a trailer parked at my buddy's house with three cars out front" mentality. But hey, to each their own.

That's what I meant by different thinking. I personally wouldn't be able to do it but he's like a trend setter. He's always been someone who stands out instead of going with the majority. I can definitely appreciate that.

PINeely · 02-26-2018, 04:33 PM

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Not sure about that one either. Perhaps he got a good deal on a lease and is able to write it off? Who knows.

Priorities. Go to any trailer park and you'll see 60k cars and trucks all day long.

Isn't that what tiny houses are anyway? Used to be when you lived in a trailer people told you to get your shit together and threatened to take your kids, now you see families of 5 moving into 200 sqft and "it's like, the green revolution, man."

P1 · 02-26-2018, 04:35 PM

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That's what I meant by different thinking. I personally wouldn't be able to do it but he's like a trend setter. He's always been someone who stands out instead of going with the majority. I can definitely appreciate that.

Going against the grain for the sake of going against the grain. I know a few of those types. Being different for the sake of being different.

Sorry mate, and not trying to be disrespectful here, but nothing about his story is inspirational.

Inspirational would be if he sold his condo and his cars in order to buy a house for his elderly parents, and with no money left, had no other choice but to live in a trailer in the front lawn of his buddy's house. Now that I would tip my hat to.

Maestro · 02-26-2018, 06:02 PM

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I have a brother in law who lives in a tiny house also. He just refers to it as a "single wide" though.

The difference is when you knock on single wide it sound like beer can, and these tiny home sound like log.

P1 · 02-26-2018, 07:10 PM

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The difference is when you knock on single wide it sound like beer can, and these tiny home sound like log.

Don't matter, still tiny. It's like the food truck craze. The Mexicans had that WAY before the hipsters did. But now all of a sudden it's cool?

allinon72 · 02-26-2018, 09:50 PM

Even if you're into this sort of thing, I wonder how long it takes for the novelty to wear off.

Ghosn · 02-26-2018, 09:59 PM

I think they caught him just as he finished building, he sounds way out of breath.

Never_Enough · 02-27-2018, 08:59 AM

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His thinking is different and he is very focused. Left a cushy job because he wasn’t happy and completely turned his life around.

If you already have a "cushy job" there is no need to turn life around. Not sure you know what that means...

Never_Enough · 02-27-2018, 09:00 AM

Where is the gf?

Maestro · 02-27-2018, 09:50 AM

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Don't matter, still tiny. It's like the food truck craze. The Mexicans had that WAY before the hipsters did. But now all of a sudden it's cool?

Actually, Food Trucks date way back before the Mexican's popularized them, they were always a big thing in Philly for a long time. I can not say for all cities but I personally never saw them in other cities before seeing them in Philly, saw food carts but not the trucks. They were mostly immigrants from eastern EU and middle eastern countries running them. Quite a number of them were run by the Greeks. They were my favor place to have lunch during college verse eating in the School Café. I agree the hipsters think they came up with the idea, all they did was put vinyls on the outside and charge restaurant prices and this some how made the food taste better. Oh lets not forget they offer Vegan, no GMO's, GF, and the list goes on.

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