tiny house

Moved to General RVing Issues forum from 5th wheels.

Why is the "Tiny House" thread in the *Fifth Wheels* forum?..:h

Since they are *NOT* fifth wheels, thread should be in either the ATC, Travel Trailer, or Hybrid travel Trailers forum..:W

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I can't imagine towing one of those tiny houses in traffic! A good fifth wheel would make much more sense. They pay anywhere from $30,000 to $100,000 for the tiny house and either have to buy a big truck to pull it or hire someone to move it every time.

All I can figure is it's a way to skirt zoning laws. They certainly aren't practical from a portability perspective. They're heavy, not aerodynamic and I haven't seen in any episode where they give an consideration to weight distribution. So they're just tiny houses, so why put them on wheels?

They should visit these people after a year. Half of them probably murder each other and the other half probably set their tiny houses on fire and push them off a cliff.

I wonder what the depreciatin on these tiny houses are? I can only hope the buyers realize this and don't lose a fortune in 5-10 years.

Yep - the last couple posts are onto something. The trendy aspect of it is sure to die off unless some cities change zoning requirements. I actually have been doing a bunch of research on these lately. My family and I end up going to the same place often and rather than haul the 5th wheel I was looking at buying a tiny house aka a park model trailer and setting it up at an RV park near our destination.

At around 50K delivered the cost is reasonable but my big fear is what to do with the thing when I'm done with it.

As for the differences between 5th wheels and park models, a park model is more of a house - thicker walls for more insulation, residential appliances. By definition they must be less than 400 sqft but many have a "storage loft" upstairs that isn't counted in the sqft but is very usable as a flop room for kids.

I still may do this at some point but need to get a better idea of how to resell it. The alternative would be to get an even bigger (eeeeesh - scary) 5th wheel and set it up and leave it. At least that could be sold and hauled away.

Zoning is going to catch up with them and kill them off. Might be able to buy one for pennies on the dollar if you have a place to put it.

Chris

Once you buy one of these tiny houses, where do you put them? Buy land? Lease land? Live in your parents backyard? (Probably not, zoning restrictions and all)

We enjoy watching the "tiny house" shows (and there are quite a few of them!) However, we always think they would be much better off in an RV, since storage and plumbing are so much easier to work with in standard RVs. I think the movement grew out of some of the younger folks finding homebuying too expensive, but not wanting to be seen as living in a "trailer." I'm sure it's a passing fad; for one thing, as more and more of them show up, communities are going to start passing more restrictive zoning laws.

Better built, better insulation, don't have to worry about the roof, windows, and siding leaking; no converters burning out, standard appliances (none of this got to have a battery or 12V to make it work right stuff), etc. Some may want to fulltime in an RV, some may want to fulltime in a S&B; to each his own. There is nothing wrong with either choice.