Tiny Houses
Would tiny houses, you know the ones people tow behind their truck, be considered an RV? Has anyone on this forum had any experience with tiny houses?
Forum Discussion
tinner12002 wrote:They don't have axles,hitches and wheels like park models. Many are wider than the allowable width for towing without a pilot car. They are not built with weight being a primary consideration. They are not built with the consideration that they will be bouncing down the highway frequently, so many items must be additionally secured before they are moved. They are flat out not designed to be easily moved from location to location. If they are built to RVIA standards, have all the axles and hookups normal to a park model RV, then that is what they actually are. Calling them "tiny homes" doesn't change that. But park models are not what the TV shows are trumpeting. TV tiny homes are a breed apart and, in my opinion, a breed that really doesn't have a significant following.westernrvparkowner wrote:qtla9111 wrote:You may believe it is very popular, but the fact is there are not communities of these tiny homes as pop culture would have you believe. Yes, downsizing is becoming popular, but for most people that means 1500 square feet instead of 4000. Cramming yourself, your wife, your kids and your bull mastiff into 250 square feet just isn't going to be the next big thing. Those tiny homes aren't mobile, they aren't street legal, they just sit on a plot of land where they are unloaded. Nothing about them screams "freedom", they just scream "cramped".
Actually, it is the minimalist movement that is very popular with Millennials. There will be more and more. People are downsizing and eliminating the cost and maintenance from their lives. Life's to short to be painting and cutting grass when you have more freedom to move around at intervals.
What do you mean their not mobile or street legal...most are both, some are built on a mobile home frame which makes them a little expensive to move but a lot or most are built on trailers and are able to move down the road just as any other trailer.
Given enough time, motivation and money you can move any home. That doesn't make my 25,000 square foot mansion (or my dog house for that matter) mobile or street legal.
I know people want to believe reality TV is real, but it isn't. There are not scared, naked people who are trying to survive in the neighborhood swamp. People who flip houses don't always make $100,000 a pop and complete each project in 6 weeks. you don't always find a Van Gogh in each abandoned storage unit. And there aren't large numbers of people longing to leave their traditional homes to live in these so called tiny homes.
