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?
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westernrvparkowner wrote:
You can call them elephants or volcanoes, but that wouldn't change what they are, which are park models.
Exactly right on ... if they have built-in axles!
If they don't have built-in axles so that they must be towed on some kind of wheeled platform or on a low-slung flatbed truck ... then they are simply a twist on the good old prefabricated house approach, albeit a super small one.
So far I consider Tiny Houses as merely a fad driven by economic issues that, perhaps for feel-good reasons, deflects by appearing to be somehow thumbing one's nose in protest at the typical approach of slaving to buy and maintain "the American Dream single family house".
We used part of that approach above, decades ago, in a lot more difficult way - while I was working full time at a career in town - we bought raw land, developed the land ourselves, ordered part of a custom house built to our plans in a factory and delivered in pieces, and then constructed a lot of it ourselves on the land ... including the well/springs/tank/piping water system to the house, house plumbing, house electrical including the underground 200 amp service, house heating system, and house air conditioning system. We weren't trying to make a social statement ... merely trying to save money in our early years. This was way cheaper than buying a house ready to go, but resulted in huge equity later in life.
