• e.a.f.
  May 26, 2024, 5:52 pm

  The extra 2 ft. in width certainly has an impact. I’ve seen 12 ft/ wide tiny homes, but this house is very well done.
  $200K for the house isn’t a bad deal at all, especially if you can find a lot for not too much. With a metal roof there is less chance for your house burning if a forest fire comes close. (I live in B.C., Canada and we’re having our share of forest fires for the past few years) This larger “tiny” is great because everything except the guest room is downstairs. Walk in shower is great. This would work very nicely for seniors who want to downsize but not move into a condo.

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  • Roger LaPointe
    August 11, 2024, 6:32 pm

    This must be built on site, It would take a special permit to move this on any hiway and wih a full escort at that. For $200,000 you could have a full sized house . . . and that $200,000 doesn’t include any land.

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    • Laura
      August 11, 2024, 6:51 pm

      You can’t have a contractor build a house for $200k…

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    • e.a.f.
      August 11, 2024, 11:26 pm

      $200k might buy you a couple of parking spots in a high rise in Vancouver but not much else. City of Vancouver just had affordable housing built. 840 sq ft. Three bedrooms-_$4200 per month. Houses in Vancouver start at 2 million and that is for a bulldoze special. New houses in Nanaimo BC a smaller town of 100k people are just under a million and Nanaimo is not a high end city
      The sibling and I paid 600k for our home 5 yrs ago. Now the new ones sell for about $950k
      Lots are about 400k here
      In BC moving a house isn’t that expensive compared to a new build. Most people hire Nichol Brothers. They move gorgeous old homes from Seattle to BC via barge
      To rent a decent bedroom in a shared house with your own bathroom is a min of a thousand a month
      Housing in BC, Ontario and Alberta is not cheap so a big tiny house for two hundred thousand is a smoking hot deal. They are brand new
      Couples, seniors, disabled would love one of those homes as would singles or people downsizing. The problem in most of BC you run into by law problems
      We don’t have manufactured home parks because most of them have larger homes and older ones are on leased land and it could be sold and you and your home evicted
      In Surrey a large suburb of Vancouver they are asking $800k for a nice manufactured home on its own land
      The tiny homes would go a long way to solving the homeless problem. Apartments don’t work for a lot of people. Tiny homes or the big tiny homes have a patio or small yard a garden and a place to park your car

      People are not penned into a stacked rabbit warrens. Canada and the USA both have homeless issues. These small homes are one solution
      In the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island Habitat for Humanity and the Rotary are building tiny homes for people who once were homeless and some had issues. Originally the organizations were given vacation trailers in good condition and they lived in those and it vastly improved their lives. Now they’ll have real houses. In BC the provincial government pays single people on welfare 500 a month for housing and that is what their housing charge is. The other portion of welfare is for food etc
      In England it’s even worse
      If politicians would see the benefits of these small houses society would be so much further ahead. Some may say they are too small but they are a lot bigger than a tent or car or a bunk in a homeless shelter

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