• 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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• Maria Kentala
  January 13, 2025, 6:18 am

  I can buy a 3 bedroom 2 bath house and a yard for 180,000.00 around the corner were I live. This is tiny home is no deal.

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  • Garth
    January 13, 2025, 10:52 am

    Maria Kentala, this one is so big I suppose the only reason it’s featured here is because it’s made by a tinyhouse company.  It looks more like a luxury mobilehome, and is wider than many single-wide mobilehomes.  I don’t know where you are that would get you a 3-bedroom, 2-bath house with a yard for $180K; but I suspect it would need a lot of repairs.  Here in SoCal just the lot with no house on it would cost more than $180K.  But I can imagine buying a lot in a small town, or away from town, and wanting to put a house on it, and not wanting to go through the process of permits, architects, contractors, etc., just buy a house and have it brought in.  There are other reasons outside of saving money that some of us look forward to being able to go tiny.  Our kids are grown and gone, and our house of 1260 square feet (which will be entirely paid off next week) is too big and I’m tired of owning so much.  I really do want less, and it’s not for financial reasons.

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    • James D.
      January 14, 2025, 12:21 pm

      Yes, real estate prices can vary significantly all over the country. Even the same design home can have up to multiple times difference in price based on just the location.

      Prices also change according to other variables that will change over time, like the up and down trends of the economy. Among other variables.

      So prices are not universal and many variables will also change what you would actually paying for and thus it’s not so simple to make comparisons based solely on the price.

      This is especially, true of custom built homes and should never be confused with the price of a regular home, most of which are track developed/mass produced generic homes.

      Even newly built homes can have significantly different costs from one being resold. However, the biggest difference is custom homes are not only a home but a special provided service that tailors the home to the specific home owner

      So, it’s not equivalent to compare a custom built home to a standard generic one. To give an idea, a custom built large home can run into the multiple millions!

      It’s like comparing a high end luxury car to a budget car. Sure, you can get one for less but there’s real reasons for the price difference that make a very real difference to what the owner gets out of the purchase.

      For tiny homes, this can be important for people who may not get what they need out of just any home and need it tailored to their specific needs.

      Homes can be very beneficial but the wrong home can be a nightmare that can ruin people’s lives. Something to understand for why some people will invest more in their home than you necessarily would because that is simply what is required for some people to get the right home for their needs.

      Consequently, this also means what people want to get out of the home can be very different and thus the costs/value can seem very different to different people and should be kept in mind that not all homes or meant for the same people but cater to specific needs and when that’s the case, there’s no better alternative for those who it fits. It just never meant everyone has to make the same choice but that there are many different choices…

      Many are just not equivalent and that has to be understood…

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