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I built and lived in a tiny home for 7 years. It cost me 8,000 to build and I paid $500/m to rent the land it was on, all utilities included.
This same outrageous pricing is happening all over the country. Business owners just see a way to squeeze us over and over.
$1,300 a month minimum for 32.5 square meters is a very expensive garage
Damn, makes my £1300 mortgage+tax a month sound rather cheap for 60m² on the south coast. But our house was originally 3 bedroom, 1 being merged into making a larger living room means it's only 2 bedroom since we got it.
good call, 3 bedrooms in 60m2 must have been cramped
Its a bungalow which helps, no stairs taking up space from that 60m². Good loft space though, quite a few people around us have built up into it to get more space.
The homes run as small as 350 square feet.
Mata, who says all the 12 tiny homes he repped sold in less than a year, tells Realtor.com that the typical buyer was a single individual, often a college student or downsizing older person.
That's small relative to US houses today, but even the smallest size they have there is 60% larger on a per capita basis, if there's an individual resident, than houses were in 1900 in the US.
https://www.windermere.com/blog/how-the-american-home-has-evolved
Owning a home has been an American tradition from the start. But the home itself has changed dramatically over the years.
For example, you may be surprised to learn how much the size of the average American home has increased since the turn of the 20th century—especially when you compare it to the size of the average family during the same time period.
In the year 1900, the average American family was relatively large with 4.6 members, but the average home featured just 1,000 square feet of usable floor space. By 1979, family size had shrunk to 3.11 members, but the floor space they shared had expanded to 1,660 square feet. And by 2007, the average family size was even smaller still—just 2.6 members—while the average home size had increased by the largest amount yet—this time to 2,521 square feet.
In 1900, 217 square feet per capita.
It's small relative to houses back then too. I don't think there were many 217 sqft houses, we just had more people per household back then.
Per capita is a bit odd for measuring the space in a house too. 5 people don't need 5 kitchens and bathrooms
If these were ADU's or something similar, I'd respect them more. This just looks like typical suburbia but with tiny homes.
I question why this couldn't be a set of apartments.
I used to be intrigued by tiny homes. They're enough room for one or two people, but not a place I'd try to raise a kid.
I recently went from a 3k sq ft US home to a 1100sq ft apartment and this apartment feels big. The difference mostly centers around how much furniture and other home maintenance materials I used to have.
It also helps that we moved to a European city so we don't have a car and related support equipment.
Looking at a 350 sq ft tiny home, if it was just down to myself and a partner, we could do it. The whole goal would be to not spent huge amounts of time at home, but to go to 3rd places and hobbies away from home. Rural or suburban living makes that harder than where we're at now, but it's doable.